The White Devil

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