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Melisende Dulac Chronology

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The [[:category:Melisende Dulac Series| Melisende Dulac Series]] stories and books take place in the following chronological order.

'''November 12, 2016'''
* [[Hey Nineteen]] (short story)<br />In the anthology ''A Beast Without A Name: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan,'' edited by [https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Brian-Thornton/2137661115 Brian Thornton]. [https://downandoutbooks.com/bookstore/thornton-beast-without-name/ Down and Out Books]. Publication: October 28, 2019.

'''July 11-24, 2017'''
* [[Crossroad]] (novel) <br />[http://www.crookedlanebooks.com Crooked Lane Books]. Publication: December 10, 2019.

'''August 2017'''
* [[Waldo's Gold]] (novella)<br />Work-in-progress

'''December 24-25, 2017'''
* [[Christmas Spirit]] (short story)<br />''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine'', November/December 2021 issue.

'''April 19-26, 2018'''
* [[The Sheepshooter's Funeral]] (novella)<br />Work-in-progress

'''June 2018'''
* [[Memory Garden]] (novel)<br />indefinitely on hold

'''Winter 2019-2020'''
* [[Melisende Book 3]] (novel)<br /> indefinitely on hold

'''Chronology Not Yet Determined'''
* [[One Of These Days]] (indefinitely on hold)
* [[Fumarole]] (indefinitely on hold)
* [[Wildfire]] (indefinitely on hold)
* [[Funeral Home on the Range]] (indefinitely on hold)

[[Category:Melisende Dulac Series]]
[[Category:Chronologies]]

Melisende Dulac

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Melisende Dulac is the main character in the [[:category:Melisende Dulac Series| Melisende Dulac Series]].

==Biography==
Sister of [[Fitz Dulac]], daughter of [[Cricket Dulac|Cricket]] and [[Stedman Dulac|Stedman]] Dulac. Married to (and possible widow of) [[Geoffrey Bouton]].

She is an employee of [[Bouton Funerary Service]], a mortuary owned by her husband's family in [[Barlow County]], Oregon. As an apprentice mortician, her duties primarily consist of body transport and miscellaneous tasks around the funeral home. Starting the autumn after the events of ''[[Crossroad]]'', she entered the mortuary sciences program at [[Barlow County Community College]] with the goal of becoming a licensed funeral services practitioner.

As part of her duties, she drives the funeral home's first call mortuary transport, which she nicknamed [[The Stiff]].<ref>[[Crossroad]], Chapter 1</ref> She also drives the funeral coach, or hearse, for funerals.<ref>[[The Sheepshooter's Funeral]]</ref>

'''Personal Details''' <br />
Melisende has green eyes* and medium-length, mousy hair that tends toward unruliness. She prefers to dress casually, favoring t-shirts and sweatshirts printed with mortuary puns and jokes. She is 5'9" with a medium build and the kind of muscularity you get from physical work rather than from working out. She is the exact opposite of a gym rat.

She is named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melisende,_Queen_of_Jerusalem Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem].

*Melisende doesn't describe herself except in the most general way. The color of her eyes can be inferred from a comment made by her friend [[Barb Ellingson|Barb]] after loaning her a blouse, "The purple brings out your eyes."<ref>[[Crossroad]], Chapter 35</ref> For a long time, she also doesn't wear a watch, a fact she often notes.<ref>[[Christmas Spirit]]</ref><ref>[[The Sheepshooter's Funeral]]</ref>

==Vital Statistics==
'''Date of Birth''': 25 March 1992<br />'''Marriage''': 3 December 2015 to [[Geoffrey Bouton]]<br />'''Separation''': 9 April 2016 (Geoffrey vanishes in Paris) <br />'''Date of Death''': —

See [[Family Trees]] for family relationships.

==Points of Interest==
* [[Old Mortuary]]
* [[New Mortuary]]
* [[Pioneer Cemetery]]

==Character Affiliations==
* [[Fitz Dulac]], brother
* [[Rémy Bouton]], uncle by marriage
* [[Elodie Bouton]], aunt by marriage
* [[Barb Ellingson]], friend
* [[Ariana Roldán]], friend
* [[Helene Bouton]], love interest
* [[Geoffrey Bouton]], husband

==Appearances==
* [[Hey Nineteen]]
* [[Crossroad]]
* [[Waldo's Gold]], work-in-progress
* [[Christmas Spirit]]
* [[The Sheepshooter's Funeral]], work-in-progress
* [[Memory Garden]] (Work on this novel is on indefinite hold.)

For specifics of when each story takes place, check out the [[Melisende Dulac Chronology]].

==References==
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[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Melisende Dulac Series Characters]]
[[Category:Crossroad Characters]]

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