num_pages: 295
description: Meet Filomena Buscarsela a street-smart cop who’s finding that New York City is a far cry from her native Ecuador. She might be out of her element, but she’s totally in sync with the city’s crazy quilt of cultures…and its equally crazy cross section of crime. It all starts on a typical night on the beat; breaking up a street scuffle, helping a rape victim limp through the justice system, and calling in a chemical emergency. But when a key witness to the “emergency” is found dead, and the department fails to solve the case, Filomena decides to investigate on her own. From the heights of the corporate world to the depths of the subways—with a few detours along the way to some way-out nightclubs and down-and-dirty construction sites, Filomena leans that the only way to stay on top of it all is to get to the bottom….
language: English
title: 23 Shades of Black
titlecomplete: 23 Shades of Black (Filomena Buscarsela, #1)
characters: Filomena Buscarsela
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 113
series: Filomena Buscarsela
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Paperback Original, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Signet,