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An 'accidental' death, a train wreck and dark secrets in a deadly northern winter: When a man wearing a tux-but no shoes-turns up dead at the scene of a train crash, Kate Williams, chief of police of a tiny northern town, quickly realizes that his death wasn't accidental. During one of the most brutal winters in recent memory, Kate needs all her resources to discover how the dead man ended up in the snow. The deeper she digs, the deeper the mystery. When her beautiful niece suddenly arrives on her doorstep, sowing distraction and rivalry among Kate's constables, Kate worries that she may have to ship the girl back home, if only to get everyone's attention back on the guy in the tux.Then her niece goes missing.The Tuxedoed Man is the second in the Mendenhall Mysteries series featuring Kate Williams, newly hired chief of police. It is followed by The Weeping Woman, The Untethered Woman and The Forsaken Man. The first book in the series is The Shoeless Kid. The series is also available as e-books.

Mysterious crying in the middle of the night... a strange light climbing where there are no stairs... Kate doesn't like vacations-she'd much rather stay on the job as chief of police of tiny Mendenhall, Manitoba. But her niece Amanda has been working too hard at her fledgling catering company. So Kate rents a cottage in Gimli, a beach town on the shore of Lake Winnipeg. Things go awry when in the middle of the very first night they hear a woman crying from the cottage next door. When Kate checks it out, however, there's no one there.Unsettled, Kate and Amanda start looking into the strange events next door. Then a series of thefts and arson attacks in Mendenhall draw Kate back home. To her surprise, the investigation into the Mendenhall crimes and the Gimli mystery spiral ever closer to each other. Then Amanda disappears and Kate will have to use all her skills if she is to protect her niece and right historic wrongs. The Weeping Woman is the third in the Mendenhall Mysteries series featuring Kate Williams, chief of police. Other books in the series include The Shoeless Kid (1), The Tuxedoed Man (2), The Untethered Woman (4) and The Forsaken Man (5).

A strange encounter with a Fey shapeshifter on a Bosnian battlefield thrusts Will Kirwan into the middle of what he thought was a family legend. But the legend proves true, and now he must come to the aid of the ancient Fey King on a world untouched by humans.Three-hundred-year-old Soutien, half-Fey, half-human, returns to the Kirwan estate only to discover that all four of his charges, including the only woman he has ever loved, have been lured into the Fey world.In a place of tortured tree nymphs and madness, Will and Soutien must fight off the deadly Fey who want to kill them, find Will's siblings, and make their way to the King... all while war brews between the Seelie and Unseelie courts.They will risk everything-love, honor, and life-in the name of an oath taken centuries earlier. But will it be enough to stem the tide of a war that would destroy both worlds?

It's been a long, hard winter and Mendenhall Chief of Police Kate Williams longs for a quiet spring. With her Deputy Chief still recovering from an attempt on his life, the detachment is short-handed. Then someone steals a tank of valuable bull semen from a local vet and Kate's constables scramble to investigate, leaving her to deal with a series of thefts and escalating vandalism at a construction site. And then there's the whole Bert thing...The fifth in the Mendenhall Mysteries series, The Forsaken Man invites readers into Mendenhall Chief of Police Kate Williams' wonderful world of quirky characters and puzzling-and sometimes weird-crimes. Other books in this series include The Shoeless Kid, The Tuxedoed Man, The Weeping Woman and The Untethered Woman.About Marcelle Dub Marcelle Dub grew up near Montreal. After trying out a number of different provinces-not to mention Belgium-she settled in the Yukon, where people still outnumber carnivores, but not by much. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. Learn more about her and her published work at www.marcellemdube.com.

Kate Williams hopes her new job as a small-town police chief will be a welcome change from the nasty internal politics she dealt with in Toronto. She should have known better. Even after a few months, she's still dealing with a police department angry that an outsider was picked over their local candidate. When a homeless man turns up at the department claiming he witnessed a six-year-old boy's abduction, she has to decide if the child really is missing, or if the homeless man imagined the whole thing. But even as the evidence suggests his story may not be true, the case triggers Kate's own nightmare past.Then she discovers that a boy really is missing.Now Kate must investigate the disappearance while transforming a station full of deeply resentful police officers into a solid unit. When the boy's mother also disappears, Kate will have to put the pieces of the puzzle together-with her team-in time to save the boy and his mother.Includes an excerpt from Book Two, The Tuxedoed Man.About Marcelle Dub Marcelle Dub grew up near Montreal. After trying out a number of different provinces-not to mention Belgium-she settled in the Yukon, where people still outnumber carnivores, but not by much. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. Learn more about her and her published work at www.marcellemdube.com.

After five years of covering seedy Eastern European politics, Laura Thorsen returns to Canada, only to run afoul of the mob. When they try to kill her before she can publish her explosive expos , she flees to her secluded childhood home in the Yukon. Little does she know that her estranged mother is being haunted, too-by the ghosts of her dead husband and a lover who disappeared 34 years ago.Their nearest neighbor, Mack Hawkins, is pulled into the fray when the mobsters track Laura down. Despite her best efforts to keep Mack out of danger, he insists on his own brand of personal protection. But in this race against time, will Laura be able to evade those who want her dead, keep them away from her mother and Mack, and mend her relationship with her mother before it's too late?About Marcelle Dub Marcelle Dub grew up near Montreal. After trying out a number of different provinces-not to mention Belgium-she settled in the Yukon, where people still outnumber carnivores, but not by much. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. Learn more about her and her published work at www.marcellemdube.com.