James W. Ziskin. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (285p) ISBN 978-1-61614-819-5
Near the beginning of Ziskin’s competent series starter set in 1960 New York City, reporter Ellie Stone is shaken to learn that her estranged father, a famed Dante scholar, is in critical condition after a brutal beating, with no suspect yet in...
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James W. Ziskin. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (275p) ISBN 978-1-61614-883-6
In Ziskin’s taut second Ellie Stone mystery (after 2013’s Styx and Stone), the reporter looks into the murder of Jordan Shaw, a college girl seen having multiple assignations at the Mohawk Motel before her body was discovered half-buried in the...
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James W. Ziskin. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (244p) ISBN 978-1-63388-183-9
Set in the Adirondacks in August of 1961, Ziskin’s solid fourth Ellie Stone mystery (after 2015’s Stone Cold Dead) begins with slovenly local police chief Ralph Terwilliger asking the vacationing 25-year-old reporter to photograph the corpses of two
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James W. Ziskin. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (290p) ISBN 978-1-63388-281-2
Set in February 1962, Edgar-finalist Ziskin’s riveting fifth Ellie Stone mystery (after 2016’s Heart of Stone) takes the intrepid reporter from New Holland, N.Y., to Hollywood, Calif., to profile Tony Eberle, a New Holland native recently cast in...
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James W. Ziskin. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-63388-419-9
In Edgar-finalist Ziskin’s suspenseful sixth mystery featuring newspaper reporter Ellie Stone (after 2017’s Cast the First Stone), set in 1962, Ellie stumbles across two bodies, burned beyond recognition, while investigating a fire at an abandoned...
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James W. Ziskin. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-63388-552-3
Ziskin’s enjoyable seventh Ellie Stone mystery (after 2018’s A Stone’s Throw) takes smart, self-possessed photojournalist Ellie to Florence, Italy, in 1963. She has been invited there by Professor Alberto Bondinelli to attend a symposium and accept...
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