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The Ancient Rain

A North Beach Mystery (Volume 3)

Author: Domenic Stansberry

The Ancient Rain

The Ancient Rain

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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...

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304
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On Sale
11/19/2013

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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.

The Ancient Rain is a chilling novel from one of crime fiction's finest. Stansberry spools out a narrative filled with deceit and betrayal, and in his hands the line between justice and revenge is razor sharp.

Imprint Publisher

Minotaur Books

ISBN

9781466857766

In The News

"[it's] transporting to view San Francisco's colorful Italian-American neighborhood, North Beach, through the eyes of Domenic Stansberry. This underrated crime writer really gets under the hood of this part of the city in The Ancient Rain, the third novel in a habit-forming series about Dante Mancuso, a private eye who knows everyone to talk to—or goes to the funeral of anyone unable to talk."—The New York Times

"Equal parts contemporary crime fiction and dark, existential poetry, this novel should win Stansberry new fans."—Publishers Weekly

"This brilliantly imagined version of real events packs an emotional wallop genre fiction rarely delivers."—Kirkus Reviews

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The Ancient Rain

The Ancient Rain

$12.99

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