THE LIZARD: Advance Praise

THE LIZARD

From Edgar Award and Hammett Prize Winning Author

Domenic Stansberry

"A compelling noir that shades into the abstract and strange in wonderful and unexpected ways. Kind of like what you might get if you crossed Jim Thompson's The Getaway with a 70s paranoid political thriller, and then injected both with a crazed 21st century grinning haplessness. “

Brian Evenson, Shirley Jackson Award Winner, Good Night, Sleep Tight

MORE ADVANCE PRAISE for The Lizard

The Lizard is a mystery that opens with a rich first-person bang and keeps delivering ….. Stansberry’s metaphorical, atmospheric descriptions supercharge the first-person experience with reflections that contrast the safety of and longing for home with murders that keep the perp on the run… a multifaceted, rich story… highly recommended for libraries seeking tales that stand out from the mystery genre crowd… realistic …fast paced… absorbing characters…an absolutely compelling read. Midwest Reviews, Executive Editor Diane Donovan

And for Domenic Stansberry

Stansberry is an extraordinarily evocative writer. George Pelecanos, writer/producer The Wire

Compelling…. Equal parts contemporary crime fiction and dark, existential poetry. Publishers Weekly

A glittering noir triumph.... recounted in a delirious, shimmeringly 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.

Gripping from beginning to end, The White Devil is an unforgettable novel by an author at the height of his powers. Foreword Reviews

A book that sticks in your craw, your brain and your gut for a very long time. No question: Stansberry is one of the genre's best writers right now. Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind on The Confession

For THE NORTH BEACH MYSTERY SERIES

Suspense.... Illicit Passion.... Murder.... Stansberry does it with originality, through the freshness of his imagery and the lyricism of his lament for times that change, neighborhoods that grow old and people who can never find their way home. New York Times Book Review

This series... revitalizes the classic detective story, injecting it with a noir sensibility that both evokes the old masters and seems altogether new. Booklist (Starred Review)

Triumphant… a wonderful exercise in lyrical simplicity… noir in its finest form with near flawless execution and style. Baltimore Sun

Brilliantly imagined . . . packs an emotional wallop genre fiction rarely delivers. Kirkus (Starred Review)

For MANIFESTO FOR THE DEAD

Fascinating, beautifully written—an enviable achievement. San Francisco Chronicle

Stansberry’s prose is an eerie echo of a dead man’s style… And his insights into a writer’s anxiety about losing his identity to his characters would make Thompson’s own skin crawl. New York Times

Positively hallucinatory. LA Weekly

In the tradition of Graham Greene, ... a moving chronicle of humanity, disquietingly black and totally absorbing. Los Angeles Times on The Spoiler

THE PLAGUE DITTIES BY JIM NISBET

Forthcoming from MOLOTOV EDITIONS, November, 2023. Poetry from internationally acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet JIM NISBET. A seminal figure in the West Coast Noir Renaissance, Nisbet wrote this book during the worldwide pandemic, finished shortly before his death in September, 2022.

“Lethal Injection is an unheralded masterpiece of the Noir genre. Everyone who loves Noir should read this brilliant book.”— James Ellroy

“Jim Nisbet is a poet...[who] mixes the irony of Dantesque situations with lyric narration, and achieves a luxuriant cocktail that truly leaves the reader breathless.” — Drood’s Review

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IN REVIEW: ELENA KNOWS by Claudia Piñeiro

“Hitchcock is a woman: she is called Claudia Piñeiro and she lives in Buenos Aires.” Corriere della Sera

Elena Knows, by Argentine crime novelist Claudia Piñeiro, take as its main character an aging widow—suffering from end stage Parkinson’s—whose only daughter has been found hanging from the bell tower of the neighborhood church in Buenos Aries. Translated by Frances Riddle.

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The Infamous ZACK KOPP on Denver, the Beats, Automatism and his latest novel HAPPINESS, a genre bending thrill ride from Camp Elasticity Books

From the Interview:

“I started writing spontaneously after discovering Kerouac when I was about fifteen and experienced a very clear connection to that wellspring … In Happiness—that automatism plays through my main character, freelance writer Wally Jack Mack., and his infatuation with extra-dimensional medium Kartinie Thinie … I guess you could say I was channeling Wally Jack—as a fictional character—similar to the way he channels Kartinie …”

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