Kenneth John Alexander Wishnia’s debut novel, 23 Shades of Black, featuring Filomena Buscarsela, was short-listed for the Edgar and Anthony awards for best first novel in 1998. He has written three subsequent Filomena mysteries, Soft Money, The Glass Factory and Red House. Born in New Hampshire, he is a graduate of Brown University and has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from SUNY Stony Brook. He lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife, a native of Ecuador, and their two children, and is a professor in the English Department at SUNY Suffolk.
Books in order of publication:
| 23 Shades of Black – 1988 | |
| Flat Rate and Other Tales of Mystery and Weirdness | 1997 |
| Soft Money | 1999 |
| The Glass Factory | 2000 |
| Red House | 2001 |
| Blood Lake | 2002 |
| The Fifth Servant | 2010 |
| Burning Twilight | 2013 |
| Jewish Noir | 2015 |
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