The White Devil

Hammett Prize for Best Crime Fiction

 

Edgar Winner 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 implicated in a series of crimes dating back to their childhood days. The novel begins in Rome, among the American ex-patriot community, and from there follows the siblings' latest obsessions: an aging Italian actress and her charismatic husband. The young woman at the heart of this tale plays a deadly game, a cipher of unwholesome impulse and erotic intrigue. The result is an elegant tour de force, a psychological noir that has won international acclaim and attention.  

 

PRAISE 

 

Stansberry nails the sultry, decadent, and erotically charged tone with one perfectly placed hammer stroke after another. Booklist

Edgar-winner Stansberry takes the reader on a wild ride in this exceptional noir. .... compelling reading. Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
  
A glittering noir triumph ... recounted in a delirious, shimmeringly erotic flow, The White Devil is a possessed, fever dream of a book, an unwise third cocktail that proves impossible to resist. Irish Times
  
Perhaps the most surprising feature of this tour de force is its pervasive links to both Jacobean tragedy and contemporary Mediterranean noir. Who knew? Kirkus 
  

Gripping from beginning to end, The White Devil is an unforgettable novel by an author at the height of his powers.Foreword Reviews (5 stars)


Intoxicating, ... Rome is brilliantly captured, as is Italian society, but it is the tragic heroine and her flawed brother that linger in the mind. London Daily Mail

A stunning piece of noir... evokes both the Rome of Fellini and shades of Patricia Highsmith... a breathless tale which shifts effortlessly from beauty to crime. CrimeTime.com July Book of the Month

Voluptuous and sharply delineated...The story is glamorous, and the political and judicial system in its Italian fluidity is well portrayed... The backdrop of sultry and crumbling Rome lends the whole story a hot and crackling ambience. Tripfiction. com
 
An absolutely incredible book, it's an intoxicating and exciting tale of jealousy and murder... Reading Domenic Stansberry's prose in The White Devil is like entering a dreamscape: everything is familiar yet peculiar; erotic yet sinister... both a gripping crime novel and a literary one. Literary Cocktail
 
The White Devil is based on a 400-year-old play of the same name by John Webster. But there is nothing derivative... Narrator Vicki is a cypher and also an archetype. The ultimate femme fatale, she emits loneliness and sadness that make her as compelling an anti-heroine as she is prospective bride. SHOTS: Crime & Thriller E-zine
 

Excellent... Menace, murder and eroticism lurk... moves slinkily amid the corruption of Rome, the Vatican, and Malibu.Sunday Times (UK) Top 10 Summer Crime Club Selection

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The White Devil

Hammett Prize for Best Crime Fiction

 

Edgar Winner 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 implicated in a series of crimes dating back to their childhood days. The novel begins in Rome, among the American ex-patriot community, and from there follows the siblings' latest obsessions: an aging Italian actress and her charismatic husband. The young woman at the heart of this tale plays a deadly game, a cipher of unwholesome impulse and erotic intrigue. The result is an elegant tour de force, a psychological noir that has won international acclaim and attention.  

 

PRAISE 

 

Stansberry nails the sultry, decadent, and erotically charged tone with one perfectly placed hammer stroke after another. Booklist

Edgar-winner Stansberry takes the reader on a wild ride in this exceptional noir. .... compelling reading. Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
  
A glittering noir triumph ... recounted in a delirious, shimmeringly erotic flow, The White Devil is a possessed, fever dream of a book, an unwise third cocktail that proves impossible to resist. Irish Times
  
Perhaps the most surprising feature of this tour de force is its pervasive links to both Jacobean tragedy and contemporary Mediterranean noir. Who knew? Kirkus 
  

Gripping from beginning to end, The White Devil is an unforgettable novel by an author at the height of his powers.Foreword Reviews (5 stars)


Intoxicating, ... Rome is brilliantly captured, as is Italian society, but it is the tragic heroine and her flawed brother that linger in the mind. London Daily Mail

A stunning piece of noir... evokes both the Rome of Fellini and shades of Patricia Highsmith... a breathless tale which shifts effortlessly from beauty to crime. CrimeTime.com July Book of the Month

Voluptuous and sharply delineated...The story is glamorous, and the political and judicial system in its Italian fluidity is well portrayed... The backdrop of sultry and crumbling Rome lends the whole story a hot and crackling ambience. Tripfiction. com
 
An absolutely incredible book, it's an intoxicating and exciting tale of jealousy and murder... Reading Domenic Stansberry's prose in The White Devil is like entering a dreamscape: everything is familiar yet peculiar; erotic yet sinister... both a gripping crime novel and a literary one. Literary Cocktail
 
The White Devil is based on a 400-year-old play of the same name by John Webster. But there is nothing derivative... Narrator Vicki is a cypher and also an archetype. The ultimate femme fatale, she emits loneliness and sadness that make her as compelling an anti-heroine as she is prospective bride. SHOTS: Crime & Thriller E-zine
 

Excellent... Menace, murder and eroticism lurk... moves slinkily amid the corruption of Rome, the Vatican, and Malibu.Sunday Times (UK) Top 10 Summer Crime Club Selection

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Hammett Prize for Best Crime Fiction

 

Edgar Winner 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 implicated in a series of crimes dating back to their childhood days. The novel begins in Rome, among the American ex-patriot community, and from there follows the siblings' latest obsessions: an aging Italian actress and her charismatic husband. The young woman at the heart of this tale plays a deadly game, a cipher of unwholesome impulse and erotic intrigue. The result is an elegant tour de force, a psychological noir that has won international acclaim and attention.  

 

PRAISE 

 

Stansberry nails the sultry, decadent, and erotically charged tone with one perfectly placed hammer stroke after another. Booklist

Edgar-winner Stansberry takes the reader on a wild ride in this exceptional noir. .... compelling reading. Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
  
A glittering noir triumph ... recounted in a delirious, shimmeringly erotic flow, The White Devil is a possessed, fever dream of a book, an unwise third cocktail that proves impossible to resist. Irish Times
  
Perhaps the most surprising feature of this tour de force is its pervasive links to both Jacobean tragedy and contemporary Mediterranean noir. Who knew? Kirkus 
  

Gripping from beginning to end, The White Devil is an unforgettable novel by an author at the height of his powers.Foreword Reviews (5 stars)


Intoxicating, ... Rome is brilliantly captured, as is Italian society, but it is the tragic heroine and her flawed brother that linger in the mind. London Daily Mail

A stunning piece of noir... evokes both the Rome of Fellini and shades of Patricia Highsmith... a breathless tale which shifts effortlessly from beauty to crime. CrimeTime.com July Book of the Month

Voluptuous and sharply delineated...The story is glamorous, and the political and judicial system in its Italian fluidity is well portrayed... The backdrop of sultry and crumbling Rome lends the whole story a hot and crackling ambience. Tripfiction. com
 
An absolutely incredible book, it's an intoxicating and exciting tale of jealousy and murder... Reading Domenic Stansberry's prose in The White Devil is like entering a dreamscape: everything is familiar yet peculiar; erotic yet sinister... both a gripping crime novel and a literary one. Literary Cocktail
 
The White Devil is based on a 400-year-old play of the same name by John Webster. But there is nothing derivative... Narrator Vicki is a cypher and also an archetype. The ultimate femme fatale, she emits loneliness and sadness that make her as compelling an anti-heroine as she is prospective bride. SHOTS: Crime & Thriller E-zine
 

Excellent... Menace, murder and eroticism lurk... moves slinkily amid the corruption of Rome, the Vatican, and Malibu.Sunday Times (UK) Top 10 Summer Crime Club Selection


Product Details

BN ID: 2940164663414
Publisher: Molotov Editions
Publication date: 10/01/2016
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 273 KB

About the Author

Domenic Stansberry is an award-winning novelist known for his dark, innovative crime novels. His North Beach Mystery Series has won praise in The New York Times and other publications for its rich portrayal of the ethnic and political subcultures of San Francisco. An earlier novel, The Confession, received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for its controversial portrait of a Marin county psychologist.
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