Domenic Stansberry Books in Order
Read Domenic Stansberry's books in order, with publication lists for his North Beach mysteries, psychological noir, standalone crime novels, and nonfiction.
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Domenic Stansberry books in publication order
13 books
The Spoiler
by Domenic Stansberry
1987
Reporter Frank Lofton follows a struggling minor-league baseball team in a Massachusetts mill town. A player's mysterious death and a series of fires draw him beyond sports reporting into an investigation of local corruption and hidden interests.
Exit Paradise
by Domenic Stansberry
1991
These stories explore family, desire and changing cultural identity at the edges of California suburbia. An Italian-American family’s conflicts and imagined escapes connect private lives to larger anxieties, revealing unsettling possibilities beneath familiar routines and inherited expectations.
In the 1st Degree
by Domenic Stansberry
1995
Prosecutor Sterling Granger handles a closely watched San Francisco murder case involving a gallery owner and an accused artist. Conflicting accounts, racial tensions, compromised investigative work, and relentless publicity threaten both the prosecution and his professional future.
Labyrinths
by Domenic Stansberry
1997
This guide examines writing and design for interactive multimedia, including websites, computer games, educational materials, and business applications. It connects narrative and information structures with interface design, scripting, production teamwork, and the technical constraints of digital projects.
The Last Days of Il Duce
by Domenic Stansberry
1998
Niccolo Jones's brother is murdered in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, stirring a desire for revenge. Memories of their childhood and Nick's obsession with his brother's former wife complicate his reckoning with family loyalties and the past.
Manifesto for the Dead
by Domenic Stansberry
2000
In a fictional version of his declining years, noir novelist Jim Thompson faces financial trouble, heavy drinking, and failing inspiration. An offer to write a film-related novel draws him into Hollywood scheming and a dangerous murder investigation.
Chasing the Dragon
by Domenic Stansberry
2004
Former San Francisco cop Dante Mancuso returns to North Beach for his estranged father's funeral while working for a secretive security organization. Family connections, old relationships, and criminal interests complicate an assignment he increasingly wants to escape.
The Confession
by Domenic Stansberry
2004
Forensic psychologist Jake Danser evaluates murder suspects while concealing affairs from his wife. When his mistress is strangled, suspicion turns toward him, and his account of events raises unsettling questions about desire, culpability, and the reliability of his narration.
The Big Boom
by Domenic Stansberry
2006
Private investigator Dante Mancuso is hired to find a former girlfriend in San Francisco during the technology boom. The case strains his current relationship and draws him into a world of speculative wealth, family loyalties, and concealed motives.
The Ancient Rain
by Domenic Stansberry
2008
Private investigator Dante Mancuso tries to clear an acquaintance arrested over a fatal 1976 bank robbery. Renewed scrutiny under post-9/11 antiterror laws sends him through San Francisco's aging radical circles, where old allegiances and grievances remain dangerous.
Naked Moon
by Domenic Stansberry
2010
Dante Mancuso's former security employer uses an investigation into his cousin's warehouse business to force him back into its service. His effort to protect family collides with secrets retained from his departure and a potentially ruinous final assignment.
The White Devil
by Domenic Stansberry
2016
An American actress in Rome becomes entangled with an older Italian film star and her husband. Her troubling relationship with her brother connects their present obsessions to crimes from childhood, while her narration conceals as much as it reveals.
The Lizard
by Domenic Stansberry
2025
Political ghostwriter S. E. Reynolds becomes entangled in a conspiracy after an illicit romance turns deadly. Attempts to escape draw government scrutiny, forcing the morally compromised former reporter to confront both an intrusive security apparatus and the fractures in his private life.
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