About me
Anthony, Barry, and Macavity award-winner James W. Ziskin is the author of the Ellie Stone Mysteries. His books and short stories have also been finalists for the Edgar, Agatha, Lefty, and Sue Grafton Memorial awards. His latest novel is The Prank (July 2026). A picture clipped from Playboy magazine, a missing Swiss Army Knife, and a prank gone terribly wrong conspire to make Christmas 1968 a deadly holiday to remember.
