Domenic Stansberry

"The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fierce, aquiline good looks---known to neighborhood familiars by his nickname: the Pelican. Dante's nickname---like the demons that haunt his personal life---comes from his family on account of his tenacity, and his large, Sicilian nose."--The publisher.

Frank Lofton, a freelance reporter covering the Holyoke Redwings, ends up investigating a murder.

Collects over thirty of the best entries in the Akashic noir series, including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T. Jefferson Parker.

Returning to the tough streets of North Beach where he had grown up, street-wise private detective Dante Mancuso is struggling to rebuild his life when he is asked to help clear a fellow investigator who has been charged with a notorious thirty-year-old homicide.

Struggling with writer's block and a suspicion that his wife is cheating on him, Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyestar investigates the disappearance of a party member's wife and fears the woman may have run away from her abusive husband.

A new look at the ancient and mythic past of the universal symbol of the labyrinth and its potential practical uses today.

Set in San Francisco in the crumbling vestiges of Italian North Beach. Before becoming a private investigator, Dante Mancuso worked for a secret corporate security firm that prized effectiveness over legality. When he left, it was not on good terms, so he made sure to take enough inside information to keep himself safe from reprisal. When SFPD Detective Leanora Chin starts asking questions about his cousin Gary's family warehousing business, Gary turns to the security firm for help, which they're willing to provide, so long as Dante agrees to settle his past debts by doing them one last favor.

"Crime novelist, Jim Thompson, is at the end of his career, suspecting he has been framed by a Hollywood producer for the murder of a young starlet."--Jacket.