Blue Plate Special

Sunny Childs Mystery #4

by Ruth Birmingham

The Edgar Award-winning series featuring Atlanta P.I. Sunny Childs continues with a tale of dinner-hour death. A gun-toting teen holding up the Blind Pig Diner takes Sunny and other diners hostage, but claims his innocence in the murder of a woman whose body lies on the diner's floor. It's up to Sunny to investigate what looks like a clean-cut case of murder before time runs out.

Genres: Mystery

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Also writes under the pseudonyms of Lynn Abercrombie and legal name Walter Sorrells.

Reviews

[Margaret]

Took me a while to warm up to Sunny, the heroine - kind of a Southern Kinsey Millhone. The setting of the story was a little unusual and I liked that - most of the story is told as Sunny and several others are being held hostage in the diner. An enjoyable book.