Bøger af Kenneth Wishnia

"The first set in modern New York City, featuring a hard-working smart-mouthed Latina investigator, Felicity Ortega Pâerez, specializing in forensic accounting and document examination, as she hunts for a missing person who holds the clue to an ancient mystery. Little does she realize how deep the criminality goes, and what she will learn about her own hidden past. The ancient section is a radical revision of the Book of Ruth--the first person in the Bible to convert to the religion of Israel. When Ruth's husband dies under strange circumstances, she must join the exiles returning to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple in order to secure a future for herself, her grieving mother-in-law Naomi, and her future offspring. Unfortunately, the returning exiles also include religious leaders like Ezra and Nehemiah, who plan to 'purify' the land by expelling all the foreign women, and Ruth must prove her worth under dire conditions, including a major famine. From Sun to Sun is a tale of love, devotion, and sacrifice depicting the challenges facing two determined 'foreign' women as they battle ignorance, hatred, and indifference in two distinct historical periods--Iron Age Israel and the modern world. Each in their own struggle to find justice and a place in society--a seemingly endless battle in a time of social upheaval, fluid identities, and diverse cross-cultural complexities. In short, the novel is about combating prejudice, and who gets to decide who is 'one of us' and who's a 'foreigner, ' and what it takes to prove you belong"--

Cuando Filomena Buscarsela, detective privado trabajando en Nueva York, lleva a su hija adolescente Antonia a Ecuador para que conozca a sus familiares, la visita se trastoca en más que un simple regreso a casa. Filomena no ha pisado Ecuador en años, y este viaje le devuelve episodios de su vida pasada en los que fue una revolucionaria. Ni siquiera logra tener tiempo de adaptarse a su nuevo entorno cuando es asesinado el sacerdote que, años atrás, le salvó la vida y la ayudó a escapar hacia Estados Unidos.La investigación que emprende Filomena sobre dicho asesinato la lleva a reencontrarse con las personas de las que tuvo que escapar en el pasado. Mientras el país está atormentado por desastres naturales y sociales—deslizamiento de tierras, inundaciones, escasez de alimentos, protestas, represiones—Filomena se convierte en una fugitiva de la ley que atraviesa el país para tener un enfrentamiento culminante en la selva amazónica. Wishnia construye una novela rica en paisajes, sonidos y peligros de Ecuador, además provee una mirada irresistible sobre las raíces de una de las heroínas más dinámicas del género ficción criminal.

“The Ecuadorian Andes is one of the few places on earth where you can get a sunburn and freeze to death at the same time.“When New York City PI Filomena Buscarsela takes her teenaged daughter, Antonia, to see their extended family in Ecuador, it’s more than a homecoming. Filomena hasn’t been back in years, and the trip brings back memories of her previous life as a revolutionary.Before she’s even had time to adjust to her new surroundings, a priest is murdered, a man who, years ago, saved her life and helped her escape to the United States. She owed him her life; now it’s time for the debt to be repaid, and she vows to find his killer. It’s an election year, and the dirty hands of politics seem to be everywhere, perhaps even in this senseless death. Filomena’s investigation promises to lead her back to the very people she escaped, all those years ago.As the country is wracked by natural and man-made disasters—landslides, floods, food shortages, protests, crackdowns—Filomena becomes a fugitive from the law, racing across the country toward a climactic confrontation in the Amazon jungle. Wishnia provides a novel rich with the sights, sounds—and dangers—of Ecuador, and a compelling look at the provenance of one of mystery fiction’s most dynamic heroines.

First she was a beat cop, then she was unemployed. Now, Kenneth Wishnia's dynamic Filomena Buscarsela has apprenticed herself to a New York City P.I. firm. Trouble is, she often agrees to take on sticky neighbourhood cases pro bono rather than handle the big-bucks clients her bosses would prefer. When she witnesses a marijuana-possession arrest that nearly turns into a shoot-out with the police, Fil is roped into finding out what went wrong. Trying to balance charity cases like these with bread-and-butter cases, not to mention single motherhood, Fil is quickly in over her head.

Ex-NYPD cop Filomena Buscarsela is back. This time, the tough-talking, street-smart Latina heroine sets her sights on seemingly idyllic suburbia, where an endless sea of green lawns hides a toxic trail of money and murder. When Filomena discovers that a high-tech Long Island factory is spewing poisons into the water supply, she's sure that the contaminator is none other than her nemesis, a cutthroat industrial polluter with an airtight financial empire. Armed only with an axe to grind, the gutsy Filomena knows she'll have to play dirty to clean up the neighbourhood.

23 Shades of Black's Filomena Buscarsela returns, having traded in her uniform for the trials of single motherhood. She may have left the department, but Filomena's passion for justice burns as hot as ever. When the owner of her neighbourhood newsstand is murdered - just another ethnic' crime that will probably go unsolved and unavenged - Filomena doesn't need much convincing to step in. Secretly partnered with a rookie cop, she hits the streets to smoke out the trigger-happy punks who ended an innocent life as callously as if they were blowing out a match.'

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.