A God in the Shed

Saint-Ferdinand is a quiet village in Quebec with an unusually crowded cemetery. For generations a series of murders has been pinned on the Saint-Ferdinand Killer, and the village has lived beside that secret without understanding what lies under it.

Inspector Stephen Crowley finally captures the killer, and the townspeople believe the nightmare has ended. It has not. The murders were only the visible layer of something much older and hungrier.

Then teenager Venus McKenzie accidentally traps an ancient, malevolent god from another dimension in the shed in her backyard. She and her friends have to face what has shaped their town all along: a cult, the practice of necromancy, and a god of hate and death.

The book is small-town cosmic horror. It joins the procedure of a serial-killer thriller to occult dread, and it shows the violence in full, with bloody consequences on the page. Expect a dark tone, with a human-scale crime story that opens onto something far larger.