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23 Shades of Black
By Barbara D'Amato and Ken Wishnia
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This tense, psychological thriller set in the East Village punk scene during the early 1980s shadows a single evening shift of NYPD cop Filomena Buscarsela. When Filomena learns that the toxic leak may have been sabotage, and a key witness—an East Village artist—dies in a suspicious accident, she decides to pursue the case on her own by cruising the Alphabet City punk rock clubs for clues about the artist's last days. But as she attempts to punish environmental criminals, Filomena finds the case, and her personal life, begin to crumble. A taut noir tempered with a cynical sense of humor, this mystery novel is a sociological snapshot of a working-class Latina in New York City.
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Barbara D'Amato
Winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award winner, Barbara D'Amato is the past president of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime International, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Excellence in Fiction and other major awards for crime fiction. She is the author of Foolproof and Other Eyes.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Protagonist: Filomena BuscarselaSetting: present-day New York CitySeries: #1What's a woman from a very rural mountain village in Ecuador doing as a NewYork City cop? There are some days when Filomena Buscarsela wonders thatherself. She's trying her best to make detective, but for some strangereason, she's always a half point short. She doesn't give up, and thatdoesn't win her many friends amongst her co-workers. Officially, she'sworking the case of the Columbian woman raped by her landlord, the Federalcase of illegal immigrants, and anything else her superiors throw in herdirection. Unofficially, she's working on the case of a dead artist whoclaimed that the Lilliflex Corp. was polluting the environment.I've read that Wishnia couldn't find a publisher for this book and decidedto publish it on his own dime. I'm glad he did. Buscarsela is one of thebest characters I've had the good fortune to meet this year. She's tough,she's funny, and she doesn't know when to quit. I didn't always agree withher decisions, but I still liked her at book's end. I want more Buscarsela!