DOMENIC STANSBERRY

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"Stansberry's noir sensibility runs so deep, and his sense of the inexorable grip in which the past holds the present is so strong, that he is able to take a seemingly soulless contemporary phenomenon--dot-com speculation--and give it the same chilling, metaphorical resonance that the postwar noir masters gave to a darkened city street or a tilted Venetian blind.... To all those mystery readers who believe that the classic detective story has played itself out, Stansberry delivers a bracing slap upside the head. And it feels so good." (Bill Ott)

"A hypnotic, compelling read. It's one part "Sopranos," another part Greek tragedy." (Hallie Ephron)

"Marvelously paced....Stansberry has followed up his first Dante Mancuso novel with a tale that is nothing short of masterful." (Stephen Miller)

"San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood is once again the star attraction of Domenic Stansberry's crime series featuring former cop Dante Mancuso….. broodingly atmospheric…..Like the North Beach setting, "The Big Boom" is more complex than it first appears, with a crusty underside to the genteel surface." (David Lazarus)

"Lean, literate, atmospheric stuff."

"Stansberry writes with such effortlessness that you'll be floating as well, on a sea of prose that glitters, grabs and gets to the grit. This is the kind of novel that you pick up in the store and finish four chapters before you manage to look up and sense the setting sun." (Rick Keitel)

"A dark, moody excursion into neo-noir... Stansberry offers his usual flawless evocation of place in another fine Chandleresque meditation on a world haunted by crime."