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Synopsis
Praise for Domenic Stansberry
"Chasing the Dragon is noir in its finest form with near-flawless execution and style."
—-The Sun (Baltimore)
"Stansberry's strong, no-nonsense crime novel, the first in a new series, pulls few punches. . . . This gritty, noirish exercise in murder and drugs feels uncomfortably like the real thing."
—-Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Chasing the Dragon
"What could be better news than the start of a new series by Domenic Stansberry?"
—-Chicago Tribune on Chasing the Dragon
"Fascinating: beautifully written, fully thought out, and locked in an intelligent argument with itself about what noir has come to mean."
—-San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle on Manifesto for the Dead
"The story is a vehicle in which to present a worldview that at one time dominated crime fiction. And it does that job very well indeed."
—-Mystery News on Manifesto for the Dead
"Stansberry does it with originality, through the freshness of his imagery and the lyricism of his lament for times that change, neighborhoods that grow old, and people who can never find their way home."
—-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review, on The Last Days of Il Duce
Publishers Weekly
Dante Mancuso, the beak-nosed PI introduced in Edgar-winner Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon (2004), returns to prowl the bars and alleys of San Francisco's North Beach in this solid sequel, a dark, moody excursion into neo-noir. The dot-com boom sweeping the city cuts deep into the old Italian heart of the Beach, with longtime residents ready to sell high and move out, and newcomers desperate for enough money to grab a toehold. When a corpse found floating in the bay is identified as Angie Antonelli, a former lover of the detective, Dante confronts the victim's boss at a startup company and tracks down other employees who have moved on in the volatile job market. Soon the PI meets the crew of killers with a perverse fondness for drowning; he grosses one out with "that thing in the middle of his face. a crime against nature." Stansberry offers his usual flawless evocation of place in another fine Chandleresque meditation on a world haunted by crime. (May) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.