HAMMETT PRIZE WINNER FOR BEST CRIME FICTION
Edgar Award winner Domenic Stansberry returns with this sultry, decadent murder mystery. Named for both the Hammett Prize and Indie Book of the Year, this unsual thriller tells the story of an aspiring American actress, who - together with her too charmng brother - is implicated in a series of crimes dating back to their childhood days in Texas. The novel begins in Rome, among the American ex-patriot community, and from there follows the siblings' latest obsessions: an aging Italian actress and her charismatic husband. Stansberry's protagonist, Vicki Wilson, narrates the story in a voice alternately intimate and distant, a cipher of unwholesome impulse and erotic intrigue. The result is an elegant tour de force, a psychological noir exploring the murky depths where the differences between familal and erotic love, between criminal and victim, merge in deadly, unexpected ways.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE WHITE DEVIL
" Perhaps the most surprising feature of this tour de force is its pervasive links to both Jacobean tragedy and contemporary Mediterranean noir. Who knew?" Kirkus Review
"Stansberry nails the sultry, decadent, and erotically charged tone with one perfectly placed hammer stroke after another." Booklist, Bill Ott
"(Readers) will relish The White Devil's ability to draw in both thriller and mystery audiences, anything but staid or predictable . . . more than a murder mystery: a story of Italy, obsessions, candid cultural observations, and a sense of place and confused purpose that keep readers guessing, entertained, and thoroughly immersed." Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan
"Freaking incredible." Crimespree
BIO
Domenic Stansberry is an award-winning novelist known for his dark, innovative crime novels. His North Beach Mystery Series has won praise in The New York Times and other publications for its rich portrayal of the ethnic and political subcultures of San Francisco. An earlier novel, The Confession, received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for its controversial portrait of a Marin county psychologist accused of murdering his mistress. He is the author of nine novels and a collection of stories.
Genre: Mystery
Edgar Award winner Domenic Stansberry returns with this sultry, decadent murder mystery. Named for both the Hammett Prize and Indie Book of the Year, this unsual thriller tells the story of an aspiring American actress, who - together with her too charmng brother - is implicated in a series of crimes dating back to their childhood days in Texas. The novel begins in Rome, among the American ex-patriot community, and from there follows the siblings' latest obsessions: an aging Italian actress and her charismatic husband. Stansberry's protagonist, Vicki Wilson, narrates the story in a voice alternately intimate and distant, a cipher of unwholesome impulse and erotic intrigue. The result is an elegant tour de force, a psychological noir exploring the murky depths where the differences between familal and erotic love, between criminal and victim, merge in deadly, unexpected ways.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE WHITE DEVIL
" Perhaps the most surprising feature of this tour de force is its pervasive links to both Jacobean tragedy and contemporary Mediterranean noir. Who knew?" Kirkus Review
"Stansberry nails the sultry, decadent, and erotically charged tone with one perfectly placed hammer stroke after another." Booklist, Bill Ott
"(Readers) will relish The White Devil's ability to draw in both thriller and mystery audiences, anything but staid or predictable . . . more than a murder mystery: a story of Italy, obsessions, candid cultural observations, and a sense of place and confused purpose that keep readers guessing, entertained, and thoroughly immersed." Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan
"Freaking incredible." Crimespree
BIO
Domenic Stansberry is an award-winning novelist known for his dark, innovative crime novels. His North Beach Mystery Series has won praise in The New York Times and other publications for its rich portrayal of the ethnic and political subcultures of San Francisco. An earlier novel, The Confession, received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for its controversial portrait of a Marin county psychologist accused of murdering his mistress. He is the author of nine novels and a collection of stories.
Genre: Mystery
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