Blue Plate Special — Ruth Birmingham

It's crowded at the Blind Pig Diner, but there's none of the usual clatter and chatter. In fact, the place is dead silent. All eyes are glued to the gun-toting teenager holding the place up--and the body of a woman on the floor.

Sunny Childs, a hard-nosed, fast-talking private eye, happens to be among the customers-turned-hostages. The trigger-happy criminal has been claiming innocence of the murder from the get-go, and wants to prove it before he'll let anyone leave. Now it's up to Sunny to investigate what looks like a clean-cut case of murder in a closed-for-business diner, before time runs out...