A. N. Mercer

Sanctuary has survived the straight road. Now it must decide what deserves to remain open. Carys Bellweather and Tess remember incompatible versions of the same journey while impossible doors reopen across the city. The authorities answer with Full Lock, and Dirk's help begins to resemble control. The concluding speculative-noir Sanctuary novel and Book 6 in the Dirk Strangelove series by A. N. Me...

Every door in Sanctuary knows where it is going. Until one goes missing. Carys Bellweather is six days from opening a breakfast room when a door vanishes from the city's shifting geography. Maps begin omitting people, and a perfectly straight road promises certainty at a terrible cost. A speculative-noir Sanctuary novel and Book 5 in the Dirk Strangelove series by A. N. Mercer. Writing by A. N. Me...

A dead man's last letter sends a probationary courier through missing addresses, erased lives and an official story that refuses to stay finished. A speculative-noir Sanctuary novel about bureaucracy, identity and the stories institutions use to decide who counts as real. Book 4 in the Dirk Strangelove series by A. N. Mercer. Writing by A. N. Mercer; cover art created with generative AI.

Fuzz Fox and the Storm Inside by Francis Ferndown is a gentle children's picture book about big feelings, emotional understanding, friendship, patience and kindness. After one difficult morning, small feelings gather inside Fuzz like a grey cloud. When playtime does not go to plan, the cloud grows into a storm. With Olive Owl beside him, Fuzz begins to understand what his feelings are trying to sa...

The third Dirk Strangelove case file sends a legally dead investigator deeper into Sanctuary, a city where identity, memory and personhood can be reduced to paperwork. Darkly comic, humane and unsettling, On the Other Hand... is for readers of speculative noir, hard-boiled mystery, corporate dystopia and bureaucratic horror. The book is live on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited, in paperback, and as a g...

Dirk Strangelove has spent years surviving Sanctuary's machinery of faith, bureaucracy and compromised memory. When answers begin arriving to questions he was safer leaving alone, he is forced into a darkly comic speculative-noir investigation of identity, free will and the systems that decide which version of the truth survives. The second Dirk Strangelove novel can be read after Die Twice, File ...

The paperwork says Dirk Strangelove is dead. Sanctuary still expects him at work. When a missing factory worker draws him into a system that edits memories, reassigns names and treats personhood as company property, Dirk must decide how much of himself he can trade before the record becomes permanent. A darkly funny speculative noir for readers of hard-boiled mysteries, corporate dystopias and ide...