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By turns hilarious and gritty, 23 Shades of Black is a kick-ass cop novel with a Latina heroine struggling against the odds.Taking place in New York City in the early 1980s and partly written in response to the reactionary discourse of the time, 23 Shades of Black is not a political tract but an astounding novel that was nominated for the Edgar and the Anthony Awards, and made Booklist's Best First Mysteries of the Year. With episodes set in the punk rock scene of the time, the focal murder case turns into an investigation of corporate environmental crime from a working class view.

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Publié par	PM Press
Date de parution	05 avril 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781604867077
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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Praise for23 Shades of Black Edgar and Anthony Award nominee

“Paced with enough mayhem and atmosphere or two novels.” —Booklist

“Everything a ﬁrst mystery should be—hard-boiled, gritty, passionate, and raw. The sheer orce o the protagonist’s voice holds you.” —Biblio

“Sardonic, street-smart humor. Strie bac against the boredom o polite mysteries; buy this boo.” —Sierra Club Book Reviews

“Action is swit in this politically charged thriller.” —Midwest Book Reviews

“Literate . . . humorous . . . ﬁnely nuanced writing that will satisy both genre ans and a wider audience o appreciators o the contemporary novel.” —High Times

“Ken Wishnia’s wor gets more complex and deeper with each boo. He started strong and eeps taing chances that pay o. This is a writer I admire.” —S.J. Rozan, author oGhost Hero

“Tough, ast moving, gritty and great un to read, the Filomena novels ran right up at the top with the best cop novels being written. Pic up one o these boos. Read three pages. You won’t be able to stop either.” —Stuart Kaminsy, MWA Grandmaster, author oPeople Who Walk in Darkness

“It ucin’ rocs. Cool as a margarita in Vegas. Superb writing.” —Ken Bruen, author oHeadstone

“Ken Wishnia’s Filomena Buscarsela is one hell o 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 . . . one goddamn bloc at a time.” —Gary Phillips, author oThe Jook

“I I’d had a partner lie Filomena, I wouldn’t have let the orce.” —Robert Knightly, author oBodies in Winterand twenty-year veteran o the NYPD

“The writing is top notch. I don’t thin I have read any male author who writes a better emale character.” —Sandra Tooley, author o the Sam Casey mystery series

“Wishnia writes with a rare combination o graceul prose and hard-hitting action. His protagonist Filomena Buscarsela is perectly realized—one o the reshest, most original voices in crime ﬁction today.” —Ric Riordan, author oRebel Island

“I always loo orward to a Ken Wishnia boo, because his world is bigger than most other mystery writers’, not to mention a lot more interesting. He writes with as much intelligence, as much humor, and as much pure originality as anyone in the business.” —Steve Hamilton, author oThe Lock Artist

“The Filomena Buscarsela novels have the wonderul ability to be unny, caring, outraged, and inormative all at once. Ken Wishnia is my avorite!” —Barbara D’Amato, author oOther Eyes

“Ken Wishnia is a rare author o authenticity. His hard-nosed stories guarantee strong characters, a tough hero, and an unﬂinching voice o reality at a time when the abyss between rich and poor is the deepest since the era o Hoover and the Great Depression. Step into Wishnia’s world or an unorgettable reading experience.” —Gayle Lynds, author oThe CoilandMasquerade

“Fil Buscarsela is as smart, tart, and tough as any three pop private eyes rolled into one. Ken Wishnia is an enormously talented writer who deserves a wider audience.” —Doug Allyn

“I you are a an o emale protagonists in crime ﬁction, you must not miss Ken Wishnia’s Filomena Buscarsela series. Every boo in the series is a true delight, combining ast-paced plots with outstanding characterizations and oten deeply moving moments. I highly recommend this series.” —Katy Munger

“New Yor City’s mean streets as they were meant to be waled, by a ic-ass, Hispanic lady cop. Gritty. Sardonic. First rate!” —Parnell Hall, author o the Puzzle Lady series

“The Filomena Buscarsela series is written the way urban police oﬁcers live, which is ‘on the edge.’ The author o these novels, Ken Wishnia, has a sharp ear or cop-tal, and a det way o maing it spring rom the page. Enjoy—and learn rom—a young Latina rom Ecuador as she tries to protect and serve the citizens o New Yor City despite the cynicism and downright betrayal o those around her.” —Jeremiah Healy, author oSpiralandThe Only Good Lawyer

“Feisty emale sleuth: or mystery ans, that’s a well-nown phrase, and the description certainly suits Ken Wishnia’s earless crime magnet o a heroine, Filomena Buscarsela. But it hardly maes or the whole story, since what Wishnia has done is give us a vibrant and quintessentially New Yor series that manages, at the same time, to be both gritty and charming—two words that rarely, i ever, appear in tandem.” —Michele Slung

“Filomena Buscarsela is one o my avorite people, as real to me as anyone in my address boo and a lot more un than most. I always enjoy spending time with her energy, humor, and compassion. She is also a crazy idealist who stics her nose in a lot o messes that are none o her business, but nobody’s perect.” —Kate Derie, author oThe Deadly Directory

“Ken Wishnia cuts a dierent path with his stories and novels, choosing subjects, settings, and characters o a sort the reader is unliely to encounter in the mainstream o mystery and crime ﬁction. His ﬁne sensibility and sillul prose will appeal to discriminating readers.” —Janet Hutchings, editor oEllery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

“With her sharp tongue, quic mind, and stubborn will, Filomena Buscarsela is the ultimate New Yorer: a cop, a woman, an immigrant who has made the city her own.” —Linda Landrigan, editor oAlfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

“Ken Wishnia writes with passion and authority. I love his cultural and sensual details and the tough resourceulness o private investigator Filomena Buscarsela. Fast-paced, intricately plotted, rich with exotic lore, these boos are not to be missed.” —Barbara Seranella, author o the Munch Mancini series.

23 SHADES OF BLACK Kenneth Wishnia

ISBN: 978–1–60486–587–5 Library o Congress Control Number: 2011939670

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INTRODUCTION

In 1997, a novel by an unnown writer, Ken Wishnia, was published by a small but cleverly named imprint, The Imaginary Press.23 Shades of Blackreceived a rave review inBooklistand went was nominated or both an Edgar Allan Poe Award and an Anthony Award or crime ﬁction and was optioned by HBO. 23 Shades of Blackbegins with an evening’s tour o duty or New Yor City cop Filomena Buscarsela. Buscarsela, a transplant rom Ecuador, is combative, angry, political, and very, very unny; her tae on U.S. culture alone is worth reading the whole boo. Buscarsela comes out swinging: “I was riding around with my partner, Bernie, a bee-brained cabeza de chorlitoso cerebrally challenged he couldn’t pic his own nose without the aid o an instruction manual and a detailed map, when we both spot what loos lie a typical Saturday night street ﬁght.” And she doesn’t let up:23 Shades of Blackis gritty and real, a patrol cop’s lie is where the rubber meets the road in police wor, and Wishnia gets it just right. The story o how23 Shades of Blackbecame a published novel is as suspenseul as the novel itsel. Wishnia wrote the novel on an electric typewriter while living in the moun-tains o Ecuador, switching to pen and paper whenever the power ailed, which was quite requently. He then spent nine rustrating years trying to sell it to a publisher. He did it the “right way,” researching the maret, querying editors who published in his subgenre, not broadcasting unsolicited manuscripts over transoms; he got nowhere. Wishnia eels the biggest challenge to commercial pub-lication was the protagonist’s outsider status as a politically Let-leaning Ecuadorian immigrant: in 1991, “one editor