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  • Book cover of The Paranoian
    Ray Sproule

     · 2022

    There’s a rap on Lester Netherman’s apartment door. It’s a little blue man from the planet Paranoia named Pymm. And so begins a series of misadventures culminating in a bizarre journey to a remote desert region of Nevada. There, after an encounter with a beguilingly lethal ‘sand creature’, Pymm attempts to lure Netherman back to Paranoia with him. Throughout, Netherman undergoes a rash of blackouts in which he vividly experiences three alternate identities — leading him to the ultimate personal question: ‘Who am I?'

  • Book cover of The Crucifix
    Ray Sproule

     · 2024

    At the age of fourteen, Marciano kills a pedophilic abbot with the sharpened point of a crucifix, driving him to take refuge in a remote mountain villa in Corsica, devoted to training assassins and forcing him into a career as a notorious assassin known as The Crucifix. Later, he attempts to break free of his French Milieu masters and is pursued from Morocco to Paris, the Greek island of Mykonos, Messina, and finally, the Spanish Sahara. Throughout, he strives to find a belief, not in God so much, but in something more significant, his true nature.

  • Book cover of The Bekaa
    Ray Sproule

     · 2024

    An adventure tale with murder, intrigue, treasure and romance—amid intimations of a past where Phoenician triremes sailed the Mediterranean Sea—set in 1957 strife-ridden Lebanon. It follows freelance journalist Matthew Thorne from Montreal, Paris, and Beirut to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, in pursuit of the murder of an old, mercurial college friend.

  • Book cover of Femme Devereux
    Ray Sproule

     · 2023

    Swiss homicide detective Angeline Devereux arrives on the scene of a murder in gloomy Lindenhof Park. The victim’s lifeless body is found shoved inside the wooden box normally home to the oversized wooden chess pieces for the outdoor chessboard. Devereux’s obsession to uncover the identity of the murdered man takes her to a small Czech village where the mystery continues to take bizarre twists and turns. Discovering a revenge plot between the victim and one of her suspects, she makes her way to a monastery, where she encounters a band of bow wielding monks. Once the hunter, she is now the prey. While back in Zurich, as Devereux works on solving the murder, she also struggles to resolve her own internal demons and an evil past that continues to torment her. Written with extraordinary detail and authenticity, Femme Devereux is a spellbinding page-turner, sure to entrance all armchair detectives.

  • Book cover of Grazz

    Brynn, a young Grazzian in the fantasy Land of Grazz, struggles to survive amid challenges from both within the Land—principally, an array of dystopian characters—and outside the Land, in the surprise emergence of a dwarf-stranger. Will Brynn survive or will he succumb . . . or will the outcome be far more devilishly gripping?