23 Shades of Black (A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery)
"Wishnia cuts a different path with his stories and novels, choosing subjects, settings, and characters of a sort the reader is unlikely to encounter in the mainstream of mystery and crime fiction. His fine sensibility and skillful prose will appeal to discriminating readers."  —Janet Hutchings, editor,Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine"With her sharp tongue, quick mind, and stubborn will, Filomena Buscarseal is the ultimate New Yorker: a cop, a woman, an immigrant who has made the city her own."  —Linda Landrigan, editor,Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine"Ken Wishnia's Filomena Buscarsela is one hell of a woman fighting the good fight in politicized bad-to-the-bone stories where the point is not merely to interpret the world, but to change it."  —Gary Phillips, author,Monkology"Filomena is tough, vulnerable, insolent, compassionate, unsentimental, violent, sexy as all hell, and alternately proud and self-doubting. Although this first novel is set in Ronald Reagan's 1980s America, she is a true hero for the culturally diverse, politically polarized, class-warfare America of 2012." —www.BruceDeSilva.wordpress.com