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The Confession
Mass Market Paperback
Published March 29, 2011
About the author
Domenic Stansberry
25 books43 followersCrime novelist, editor and essayist known for his innovative noir fiction that skirts the edges of the genre while exploring the intricacies of criminal consciousness. The Lizard, finalist for the 2026 Hammett Prize, is the latest of his award-winning novels.
His other recent books include The White Devil, a sultry, decadent thriller that received the Hammett in 2017. An earlier novel, The Confession, received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and is regarded as a neo-noir classic.
Other work includes the North Beach Mystery Series—featuring investigator Dante Mancuso — which received wide praise for its portrayal of the ethnic and political subcultures of San Francisco. Books from that series include The Ancient Rain, named several years after its original publication as one of the best crime novels of the decade by Booklist. Stansberry’s novels have been translated into numerous languages, with editions in Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish and Polish among others.
He lives with his wife, poet Gillian Conoley, and their daughter, Gillis, in a small town north of San Francisco.
His other recent books include The White Devil, a sultry, decadent thriller that received the Hammett in 2017. An earlier novel, The Confession, received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and is regarded as a neo-noir classic.
Other work includes the North Beach Mystery Series—featuring investigator Dante Mancuso — which received wide praise for its portrayal of the ethnic and political subcultures of San Francisco. Books from that series include The Ancient Rain, named several years after its original publication as one of the best crime novels of the decade by Booklist. Stansberry’s novels have been translated into numerous languages, with editions in Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish and Polish among others.
He lives with his wife, poet Gillian Conoley, and their daughter, Gillis, in a small town north of San Francisco.
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