Search - Blue Plate Special (Sunny Childs Mysteries)

Synopsis from back of book:

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..........