The Confession (Hard Case Crime) - Softcover

Stansberry, Domenic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857683187 ISBN 13: 9780857683182

Publisher: Hard Case Crime, 2011

Synopsis

SHE WAS YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL...AND DEAD!

Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist.  But he’s also got a mistress.  And when Jake’s mistress is found strangled to death with his necktie, it’s up to him to prove he didn’t do it.  

But how can he, when all the evidence says he did? 

Jake races to reveal the secret conspiracy against him.  But with every step, the noose is tightening, and all of Jake’s resourcefulness may not be enough to save him...

About this title

About the Author

Domenic Stansberry has been nominated three times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and received the Edgar for his Hard Case Crime novel The Confession.  He received his earlier nominations for The Spoiler and The Last Days of Il Duce (also nominated for the Hammett Prize). His other novels include Manifesto For the Dead, an evocative look at the latter days of pulp writer Jim Thompson.

From Publishers Weekly

In Edgar-nominee Stansberry's compelling and incredibly dark modern noir shocker, forensic psychologist Jake Danser alternates between his day job—interviewing murder suspects then testifying to their culpability—and bedding as many women as possible without letting his beautiful wife catch on. When one of his mistresses ends up dead, the focus turns on Danser, and a weighty knot of a psychological puzzle begins to slowly unravel. Danser is a fascinating narrator because he's a shifty one, telling his story in small, measured bits ("it is true, there are a few things I haven't mentioned here about Angela and myself," he says nearly halfway into the story); the things going on in the world outside him are almost of secondary interest to what is going on inside his head. While the Hard Case series consciously strives for a pulp feel with retro artwork and packaging, the writing itself is infused with a modern sensibility—after all, Philip Marlowe never said anything like "for a minute I was a man within the void, and it was the void that imagined me." Stansberry pours on the blood and guts in places, so much so that readers may want to take a shower upon finishing, but lovers of industrial strength neo-noir will savor the book's thoroughly seamy atmosphere.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hard Case Crime
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857683187
• ISBN 13: 9780857683182
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 224