The White Devil

Domenic Stansberry had the inspired idea of transposing The White Devil, John Webster's first great tragedy, to present day Rome, lacing it with aphoristic wit and recounting it in an eerie, shimmering flow. * Irish Times - Best Crime Fiction of 2018 *
Excellent... Stansberry deserves to be better known... Menace, murder and eroticism lurk. * Marcel Berlins, The Times *
Intoxicating... Rome is brilliantly captured, as is Italian society, but it is the tragic heroine and her flawed brother that linger in the mind. * Daily Mail *
A glittering noir triumph... Brilliantly reimagined, fast-moving, aphoristic and recounted in a delirious, shimmering erotic flow, The White Devil is a possessed, fever dream of a book, an unwise third cocktail that proves impossible to resist. * The Irish Times *
A stunning piece of noir, loosely based on John Webster's classic Renaissance play, which evokes both the Rome of Fellini and shades of Patricia Highsmith... Love triangles, an insidiously seedy atmosphere of corruption unleashed, a femme fatale like no other and a lush background makes for a breathless tale which shifts effortlessly from beauty to crime, in a both lyrical and terse, Hemingway-like narrative... You keep on rooting for the morally dubious heroine even though you know she is not to be trusted until her inevitable fall from grace. A revelation. * Crime Time, Book of the Month *
One of the classiest pieces of noir you'll read this year... It is atmospheric, deliberately ambiguous, vengeful, by turns sultry and icy in tone with a leading female character you want to trust but simply dare not. * Mike Ripley, Shots Mag *
a wonderfully indulgent read with some surprising twists * The Lady *
A wild ride... exceptional * Publishers Weekly - starred review *
Freaking incredible * Crimespree *
Voluptuous and sharply delineated... the backdrop of sultry and crumbling Rome lends the whole story a hot and crackling ambience * TripFiction.com *
Sultry, decadent, and erotically charged * Booklist *
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 *
More than a murder mystery: a story of Italy, obsessions, candid cultural observations, and a sense of place and confused purpose that keeps readers guessing, entertained, and thoroughly immersed * Midwest Book Review *
A sensitive writer and observer * New York Times *
Stansberry is an extraordinarily evocative writer * George Pelecanos, writer/producer THE WIRE *
One of the genre's best writers right now * Sarah Weinman, author of THE REAL LOLITA *
Stansberry is a hard-hitting, uncompromising writer * Bookreporter.com *