The Inspector Paranormal series is currently published in French.
World English and other foreign language translation rights are available.
Contact with the Dead
(Original French title: Contact avec les morts)
No one could have imagined that the simple desire to make contact with the spirits of the departed who once crossed our lives could lead to such a catastrophe.
Contact with the Dead: What if a simple performance unleashed horror?
One evening, what was meant to be harmless entertainment plunges into pure horror. Doctor Céleste takes the stage, and his “contact with the dead” show takes an unexpected, terrifying turn. The spirits of the deceased, thirsting for vengeance, invade the room, transforming the performance into a true bloodbath.
The horror spreads
The arrival of Inspector Jimmy Brazeau, his colleague Luc Richard, and their team ends the immediate chaos, but the tragedy is only beginning. The city is quickly overwhelmed by a wave of terror as deaths pile up at a staggering pace. Doctor Céleste, whose threat grows with every passing moment, must be stopped.
A desperate battle against occult forces
But how do you stop a man gifted with such power, capable of unleashing the paranormal? Jimmy Brazeau and Luc Richard find themselves facing an unprecedented form of terrorism. They will have to confront their own fears and improvise to defeat this supernatural enemy, whose roots lie in a forgotten pact between two children.
The Shadow of the Last Breath: What if death were only the beginning?
(Original French title: L'Ombre du Dernier Souffle)
“I’ll do everything I can to find out what happened to you, my little one.”
Five years after his unexplained disappearance, Nathan Fortin is found. Sitting on a park swing, he appears to be in a state of apparent death. What stuns the investigators? He has not aged a single day, frozen in time.
The Inspector Paranormal faces the impossible
Faced with a tragedy that defies all logic, Luc Richard is forced to embrace the destiny bestowed on him by his nickname: the Paranormal Inspector. He must accept this strange ability to solve mysteries that push the limits of human understanding.
A secret frozen in time
How can Nathan’s condition be explained? What terrifying secret lies behind his long absence and unexpected return? Inspector Richard will have to dive into the inexplicable to pierce the veil of the Shadow of the Last Breath.
Murderer from the Past: A crime frozen in time, a vengeance beyond him
(Original French title: Meurtrier du Passé)
“Madness can be used to justify the worst atrocities.”
Horror takes hold when Léa Boyer’s body is discovered in an isolated chalet. Mummified through a rudimentary plastination method, her muscles and tendons exposed, she rests macabrely on a podium. In front of her, on a sofa, her murderer lies dead, struck down by a heart attack, Léa’s skin used as a blanket.
A desperate invention opens the door to the unspeakable
Devastated, Dominic Boyer, a brilliant engineer and Léa’s father, develops the retrocamera. This revolutionary invention allows him to go back in time and witness his daughter’s final hours. What he discovers defies comprehension: a series of unimaginable atrocities. But he could not have foreseen that his invention would create a breach in time, propelling the murderer, before his own death, into the future.
The Inspector Paranormal faces a temporal enemy
Inspector Luc Richard, known as the Paranormal Inspector, faces an unprecedented challenge. How do you stop a killer who moves through time and calls himself the “Master of Immortalization”? Past, present, and future intertwine in a race against time to stop this extraordinary criminal.
Hallucinations: Unexplained disappearances, a distorted reality
(Original French title: Hallucinations)
“Mind control, an ability no human should possess.”
Three days before the end of the school year, an elementary school is struck by a wave of anxiety: four students mysteriously disappear. Surveillance cameras confirm that they are still inside the building, but desperate searches turn up nothing. The children are nowhere to be found.
The Paranormal Inspector faces the invisible
That is when Luc Richard, the man known as the Paranormal Inspector, steps in. Upon arrival, he makes a blood-chilling discovery: the four children are indeed there, sitting at their desks, invisible to everyone’s eyes.
An imminent catastrophe and a race against time
This event is only the prelude to a series of strange and horrific tragedies. As he uncovers the secrets behind these phenomena, Luc Richard realizes that, once again, he will have to push beyond the limits and defy the rules in order to survive and prevent a catastrophe of unmatched scale. Time is running out, and reality is warping.
The Animal: When the beast hides among men
(Original French title: L'Animal)
In the heart of a peaceful Québec neighborhood, the annual celebration is in full swing. Amid the joyful crowd, little Camille disappears, abducted without anyone seeing a thing.
A formidable predator
She is found later behind a dumpster, disemboweled, her liver devoured. The bite marks on her body suggest an animal attack. But what animal could cross a dense crowd in broad daylight, abduct a child, and devour her? The horror defies all logic.
The Paranormal Inspector faces the unspeakable
As other victims suffer the same atrocious fate, Inspector Luc Richard, the Paranormal Inspector, launches into a race against time. He must solve this senseless mystery and hunt down this inhuman murderer, once again risking his life to stop the beast that prowls.
Demon: The raw truth behind his fall.
“If you want victory, you must be ready to accept its consequences.”
The Demon has fallen. But at what cost? After an intense and ruthless hunt, victory tastes bitter.
(Original French title: Démon)
An uncompromising investigation
Demon plunges you into the heart of this relentless quest for justice. Discover the radical methods, wrenching choices, and disturbing truths that led to the fall of this elusive threat. Every twist is revealed without artifice or compromise.
Inevitable sacrifices
Whether you are a devoted follower of the Paranormal Inspector or a fan of hard-hitting stories, prepare to face brutal decisions, shocking revelations, and the harsh reality of the sacrifices required to prevail. The fight against evil leaves no room for doubt or indulgence.
Witch
She adores the blood of boys whose fear runs through their veins.
(Original French title: Sorcière)
The blood of young boys has flavor only when fear gives it that delicious taste. Two centuries ago, she turned the alleyways of Québec into an open-air slaughterhouse, carving the macabre legend of the Bloody Trinity into history.
To end the carnage, Joseph Richard had to face the horror at the risk of losing his life. He succeeded in sealing this abomination within the icy depths of Château Saint-Louis. He thought he had condemned it to oblivion. He was wrong.
To err is human. Vengeance, however, is demonic.
One simple mistake, and darkness escapes. Starved by two hundred years of solitude and hatred, the Witch is reborn. Behind her ugliness, she longs for only one thing: fresh flesh. But before she begins her feast on the city’s children, a familiar scent flatters her putrid nostrils.
Richard's blood
Luc Richard, the Inspector Paranormal, is no longer hunting a mere entity: he is the prey of an ancient predator determined to extinguish his bloodline in an outburst of bloodthirsty fury. The time of the massacre begins.
Only one will survive. Only one instrument can annihilate her.
The legacy of his ancestor is his only hope, but the price of using it may well be his life. In the darkness of the cursed foundations, the confrontation will be visceral, ferocious, and merciless.