Double Entendre

by Joseph Roccasalvo

"In Beyond the Pale, Nigel Swain, a gay Unitarian minister, is found dead in black pigskin, crushed by a garbage truck. His Boston friends: Clarissa, Mirabelle, Naomi, Roger, Penelope, and Bruno are determined to find the culprit. Their efforts are complicated when Neville, Nigel's identical twin, arrives from Africa followed soon by his wife Dahlia, who has fled from a harem on the Persian Gulf. This comic murder mystery includes a papal TV series, a psychotic biography, and a primer on wayward theology. ... In The Powers That Be, Simeon and Ann are gifted with clairvoyance and genius IQs. Eager to fall in love with an equal, they meet through a Personals ad and find themselves perfectly matched. But the diabolic Benito Fosco is intent on seducing them in his Sutton Place apartment planted like the Garden of Eden... The genesis of this farce is the vulnerability of our latter-day Adam and Eve who are lured into easy submission. Enter Mick Deangelis, angelic hunk and protector, whose h