The Fifth Book in the Filomena Buscarsela Series
was published in 2002 from St. Martin's Press.

BLOOD LAKE

PLOT: Filomena returns to her native Ecuador and all hell breaks loose.

INSIDE DOPE: This was originally going to be the second book in the series, but my daughter's premature birth changed those plans pretty quickly. In all, it took me fourteen years and six drafts to nail this sucker down, but I did it. Comes with a four-page glossary of Spanish and Quichua terms.

BLURBS:

"The first page of Blood Lake is strong, on a dead-run; and the rest of the book ain't too dusty, neither."
    -- Harlan Ellison, Edgar, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author and all-around living legend

"In a stunning portrait of a country just over the line between law and chaos, BLOOD LAKE gives the reader urgent, pulse-pounding prose, an unstoppable, appealing narrator, and a sense that the veneer of civilization may be, in places, very thin indeed."
    -- S.J. Rozan, Edgar, Anthony and Shamus-winning author of WINTER AND NIGHT

"Vivid and unforgettable."
    -- Publisher's Weekly

"Dazzling."
    -- Booklist

"Enormously engaging... touchingly real... It's as if Wishnia were attempting to rescue the thriller from the bloat and preposterousness of Ludlumization in order to return it to its more Graham Greene-like roots in a recognizably mean world--just as Chandler and Hammett rescued detective fiction from drawing room gentility and yanked it down to the mean streets that had always been its natural habitat."
    -- The Washington Post

"One of the most distinctive series in mystery fiction... Refreshingly original and complex."
    -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"There is too much to praise about this book, so suffice it to say that every element that makes a book great is in this novel, making for a truly memorable read."
    -- Romantic Times

"A knockout narrator who hits the reader in the heart and the head... If there's any justice, Fil Buscarsela will find a home on reader's shelves and in their thoughts. Just try to keep her out."
    -- The Drood Review of Mystery

"Another absorbing page-turner."
    -- New Orleans Times-Picayune

"BLOOD LAKE works equally well as a private eye novel, and atmospheric regional mystery and a political thriller that relies on people, not techno-gadgets, to tell a story of a country under siege."
    --South Florida Sun-Sentinel