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 Dubé Marcelle Dubé 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.