Ken­neth Wish­ni­a’s nov­els include 23 Shades of Black, Soft Mon­ey, Red House, and The Fifth Ser­vant. Wish­ni­a’s nov­els have been nom­i­nat­ed for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, among oth­ers, and that The Fifth Ser­vant was a Best Jew­ish Book of the Year ( The Jew­ish Press ), won a Pre­mio Let­ter­ario ADEI-WIZO (the Ital­ian chap­ter of the Women’s Inter­na­tion­al Zion­ist Orga­ni­za­tion), and was a final­ist for the Sue Fed­er Memo­r­i­al His­tor­i­cal Mys­tery Award.