Adieu Warm Sunshine — C.E. Case

Pamela Costis is just another dancer/addict loitering at the stage door with no autographs to sign. She tells herself she's not looking for anything, but when the black town car pulls up and reveals a tall, dark stranger, she's intrigued enough to get closer. Sunflower "Sunny" Darling is unmistakably a cop, except she's really something darker, but that doesn't matter until Pamela goes missing after their one night stand. No one else seems to have noticed. Occam's Razor flies in her face, but Sunny can't accept Pamela's disappearance as anything ordinary. She delves into the theater underworld, follows where drugs take her, but finds only dead ends. Pamela's true threat is inside Sunny's own world.