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Published Apr 2008
304 pages
Genre: Mysteries
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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 the law, Dante has come home to put all that behind him and has gone to work for a private investigator. A call alerts him early one morning that Bill Owens, a fellow PI, has been charged with a notorious thirty-year-old killing. Bill was involved in a political group in the late sixties, which among other pranks and small-time crimes, held up a bank. Except that time, an innocent bystander was shot and killed.
To clear Owens of these charges, Dante will have to retrace the original investigation through San Francisco's radical underground and bring in the man who was pulling the strings.
"Starred Review. Predictably bleak - Stansberry has always walked on the noir side - but this brilliantly imagined version of real events packs an emotional wallop genre fiction rarely delivers." - Kirkus Reviews.
"Equal parts contemporary crime fiction and dark, existential poetry, this novel should win Stansberry new fans." - Publishers Weekly.
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Domenic Stansberry's previous novels include The Confession, an Edgar Award winner; The Last Days of Il Duce, an Edgar Award and Hammett Prize finalist; Chasing the Dragon; and most recently, The Big Boom.
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