Set in San Francisco before the high-tech markets went bust, The Big Boom features Dante Mancuso, an obsessive private investigator who works the streets of his hometown where he's known by his nose and his nickname: The Pelican.

Settling in and hoping to settle down, his peace is shattered when an old North Beach family asks him to find their daughter---one of Dante's former sweethearts. Though the case alienates his longtime lover Marilyn Visconte, Dante has no choice but to plunge into the shadows of the dot-com revolution.

A tightrope of a novel and a...

Edgar award winning novelist Domenic Stansberry has returned with a chilling new noir: The White Devil.

The White Devil tells the story of an aspiring American actress who--together with her brother-- is implicated in a series of crimes dating back to their childhood. The novel begins in Rome, among the American ex-patriot community, and from there follows the siblings' deadly obsession with an aging Italian movie star and her charismatic husband.

Stansberry's protagonist, Vicki Wilson, narrates the story in a voice alternately intimate and distant, tender and cold,...