Domenic Stansberry

Dante Mancuso

Chasing the Dragon (Oct-2004)
The Big Boom (May-2006)
The Ancient Rain (Apr-2008)

A North Beach Mystery

Naked Moon (Mar-2010)

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  The Spoiler
  

  • Aug-1987
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  An Edgar Award finalist in the year it was published, the reputation of this novel has only increased over the years, and it is now regarded by many as one of the best sports mysteries ever written, and one of the best books about baseball.   It...

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  In the 1st Degree
  

  • Dec-1995
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  A celebrated gallery owner lies dead. A prominent artist faces murder charges. The victim is black, the accused white. The street says a white man won?t go down for murder. All of San Francisco is watching.
  
  What took place that fateful day at ...

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  The Last Days of Il Duce
  

  • Feb-1998
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  Domenic Stansberry's award-winning novel tells the story of Niccola Jones, a broken-down man plagued by his obsession with his brother Joe's ex-wife Marie. Set in the old Italian neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco, the novel flashes back an...

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  Manifesto for the Dead
  

  • Jan-2000
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  Manifesto for the Dead is a surreal noir that takes as its main character the master of noir, the late crime novelist Jim Thompson at the end of his career, suspecting he has been framed by a Hollywood producer for the murder of a young starlet. An i...

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  Chasing the Dragon
  

  • Oct-2004
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  Dante Mancuso
  

  A complicated, shadowy man in disgrace, Dante Mancuso leads a double life. Lately, though, the line he walks has become razor thin. Dante works for The Company, a nebulous security organization operating just this side of the law. Dante wants out...

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  The Confession
  

  • Nov-2004
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  Hard Case Crime - 6
  

  She Was Young...Beautiful... and DEAD! Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, and a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he's also got a mistress. And when she's found strangled to death with his nec...

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  The Big Boom
  

  • May-2006
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  Dante Mancuso
  

  The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fie...

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  The Ancient Rain
  

  • Apr-2008
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  Dante Mancuso
  

  Edgar Award winner and master of contemporary noir Domenic Stansberry returns to San Francisco's North Beach and Dante Mancuso, the dark PI who grew up on its tough streets.After a career with a shadowy security firm with interests on both sides of t...

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  Naked Moon
  

  • Mar-2010
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  A North Beach Mystery
  

  Set in San Francisco in the crumbling vestiges of Italian North Beach, Domenic Stansberry's latest novel plunges once again into the noir underworld of Dante Mancuso. This new installment of Stansberry's critically acclaimed series, Naked Moon, unear...

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  Exit Paradise
  

  • Nov-2011
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  The stories in Exit Paradise are stories about family and about place. The family, most often, is an Italian-American family named, ironically, the Johnsons. The place, usually, is the vanishing edge of the California suburbs, where identity, culture...

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  The White Devil
  

  • Oct-2016
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  Hammett Prize Winner for Best Crime Fiction

  Noir master Domenic Stansberry returns with this sultry, irresistible murder mystery. THE WHITE DEVIL tells the story of an aspiring American actress, who, together with her too charming brother, is...

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Award-Winning Books by Domenic Stansberry

The Confession
2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original