Gabriel Du Pre Series (#1-8 & 10-12) by Peter Bowen
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Overview: Peter Bowen, a Montanan, writes of the West. Cowboy, hunting and fishing guide, folksinger, poet, essayist, and novelist, he’s written the picaresque Yellowstone Kelly historical novels, and humor columns and essays on blood sports as Coyote Jack. He has also written the Gabriel Du Pré mysteries, in part because “the Métis are a great people, a wonderful people, and not many Americans know anything about them.”
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Coyote Wind (Gabriel Du Pre #1)
A decades-old plane crash leads Du Pré to possible murder, and to a landowner with dark secrets
Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure that no one tries to sell cattle branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows’ backsides. The barren country around Toussaint is too vast for the town’s small police force, and so, when needed, this hard-nosed hybrid of Indian and Frenchman lends a hand. When the Sheriff offers gas money to investigate newly discovered plane wreckage in the desert, Du Pré quickly finds himself embroiled in a mystery stretching back a generation. For three decades the crashed plane has sat in the sun as the bodies inside rotted away to their bones. Two skeletons are whole, but for one nothing remains but the hands, skull, and the bullet that ended his life. The crime was hidden long ago, but in the Montana badlands, nothing stays buried forever.
Specimen Song (Gabriel Du Pre #2)
A serial killer follows Du Pré from Washington, DC, back to Montana
A lost and frightened horse plods down the National Mall, startling the crowd. When Gabriel Du Pré spots the confused animal, the connection is immediate, for neither of these creatures belongs in the sweltering heat of a DC summer. Du Pré, a Métis Indian from the wilds of Montana, calms the horse and leads it to the nearest policeman. Du Pré is in Washington to play his people’s music for a Smithsonian festival, but after leading the horse to safety, he encounters a murder instead. The dead woman is Cree Indian, come down from Canada to sing in the festival. Du Pré tries to put her death out of his mind and returns to Montana, but more killings follow: each time with a primitive weapon, each time foretold by a local shaman. As the body count rises and the killer closes on Du Pré, the lawman vows to never again make the mistake of leaving Montana.
Wolf, No Wolf (Gabriel Du Pre #3)
A storm is brewing in Toussaint between the ranchers and environmentalists, and it’s up to Du Pré to stop the bloodshed
Two men have been cutting fences at the ranches of Toussaint, Montana, loosing thousands of dollars of cattle to use as target practice for their .22 rifles. Are they thieves? Pranksters? Local cattle inspector Gabriel Du Pré guesses they’re environmentalists agitating for the reintroduction of native wolves to Montana’s high plains. Du Pré knows that the environmentalists are trying to send a message to the ranchers of eastern Montana. He also has a hunch that they are already dead. When the activists are found shot to death, Du Pré attempts to contain the chaos. The FBI descends, but their agents are as clueless in this territory as the hapless environmentalists. One of Toussaint’s citizens committed this crime, killing to protect the traditional way of ranching life, a loyalty that Du Pré shares. If anyone’s going to arrest his people, it will be the cattle inspector himself.
Notches (Gabriel Du Pre #4)
A serial killer is stalking the high plains of Montana, and Du Pré just might be the only man who can stop him
Gabriel Du Pré does not want to read the newspaper article. A fifth body has been found—another girl raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wasteland to be devoured by coyotes—and opening the paper will draw him into the hunt for her killer. But Du Pré, the cattle inspector and occasional deputy, has already been drafted. Minutes later, the local sheriff calls, asking for help at a crime scene. Another girl is found dead, this time in Du Pré’s backyard. Not far from the body, he finds two more murdered women lain over each other in a grisly cross. If this is a clue, it tells him nothing. As more girls die, and a young woman he cares about disappears, Du Pré fights to comprehend the murderer. To find this monster, he must learn to think like him and give in to the part of himself that knows how to kill.
Thunder Horse (Gabriel Du Pre #5)
Gabriel Du Pre is a Montana cattle-brand inspector, fiddler, tracker, and reluctant sleuth. Thunder Horse begins with an earthquake that derails a Japanese corporation’s plan to develop a trout farm on Montana land – and reveals the ancient burial ground of a long-dead people. Soon, a more recent body turns up: a snowmobiler shot in the back, carrying a large fossil tooth. A local archaeologist says it’s from a Tyrannosaurus Rex – and reminds Du Pre that only four complete T. Rex skeletons have ever been located. How much would one be worth? Before Du Pre finds the answer to that question, his own life is threatened and tensions between developers and residents nearly destroy a rural Montana community.
Long Son (Gabriel Du Pre #6)
In Toussaint, Montana, old family secrets, forgotten for more than one hundred years, come to light after a young woman and her land-owning parents die under suspicious circumstances. When Larry Messmer, the brother and son of the victims, auctions off his parents’ ranch, Gabriel Du Pre discovers a string of unexplained deaths buried deep in the family’s past. Steeped in the rich traditions of Metis storytelling, Long Son is the sixth in this highly acclaimed series.
The Stick Game (Gabriel Du Pre #7)
The latest installment in this unique series finds amateur sleuth and cattle rancher Gabriel Du Pre uncovering the dirty secrets of an industrial gold mine and searching for a troubled teenage boy. At a trading fair in rural Montana, Du Pre and his longtime love Madelain run into Jeanne now worries about the disappearance of her sixteen-year-old son, Danny. Meanwhile, Du Pre befriends a musician from Fort Belknap Reservation who introduces him to disturbing parallels between the huge incidence of birth defects in the Indian population there and the activities of the persephone gold mine located near the reservation. With some reluctance, Du Pre agrees to look into both problems.
But then Danny’s body is found in a well, and Du Pre discovers a link between the boy’s life and what goes on at Fort Belknap. Working with a doctor who’s long been concerned about Persephone’s practices, Du Pre dangerously confronts the indifference and recklessness of the industrial mine.
Cruzatte and Maria (Gabriel Du Pre #8)
In his eighth outing, Metis-Indian fiddler, tracker, and amateur sleuth Gabriel Du Pre is called upon by his daughter Maria and her fiance to act as historical advisor for a documentary film about the Lewis & Clark expedition. Du Pre is the descendant of Pierre Cruzatte, one of the scouts who accompanied Lewis and Clark during their expedition, and has the relevant know-how to authentically recreate props.
When Du Pre arrives at the shooting site, located in a remote region of Montana along the Missouri River, he finds himself in a volatile situation: major trouble is brewing between the local community and the tourists and the film makers of the documentary who are descending upon the historical site with increased frequency. The hostility takes its toll on the film production: the star quits and someone has set fire to the props. Then two bodies, that of a photojournalist and his companion who were retracing Lewis & Clark’s route, are fished out of the In his eighth outing, Metis-Indian fiddler, tracker, and amateur sleuth Gabriel Du Pre is called upon by his daughter Maria and her fiance to act as historical advisor for a documentary film about the Lewis & Clark expedition. Du Pre is the descendant of Pierre Cruzatte, one of the scouts who accompanied Lewis and Clark during their expedition, and has the relevant know-how to authentically recreate props.
Badlands (Gabriel Du Pre #10)
A secretive millennial cult from California purchases a ranch on the outskirts of the Montana badlands—the eerily silent, dry, and windy dead zone—and the Toussaint townsfolk are none too pleased.
The cult members keep to themselves, but the suspicious circumstances under which they’ve arrived have Gabriel Du Pré questioning their motives and seeking answers. He soon learns from a friend in the FBI that seven of the cult’s recently defected members were killed—each shot to death—but no arrests have been made. Then another shooting occurs at the perimeter of the ranch, and Du Pré finds himself blindly searching for a killer, an explanation for the murders, and the identity of the cult’s elusive leader.
With Badlands, his tenth novel in this acclaimed series, Peter Bowen has written his most timely and chilling novel to date: a story of faceless terror told in lyrical prose and steeped in the Métis tradition of storytelling.
The Tumbler (Gabriel Du Pre #11)
Gabriel Du Pré, the old Métis fiddler at the center of Peter Bowen’s atmospheric, engrossing series set in the dirty, dusty Montana that’s rarely featured in travel brochures, has a knack for finding trouble. Or rather, trouble has a knack for finding him. There’s a rumor going around that Du Pré and his old sorceror friend Benetsee have come across a parcel containing the lost journals of Lewis and Clark, and outsiders, drawn by the spirit of the legendary explorers, are beginning to invade Toussaint.
Du Pré won’t say whether he’s got the journals or not, preferring his usual routine of cigarettes, a whiskey ditch or two and a few fiddling gigs up and down Montana’s highways to getting involved in this controversy. Benetsee isn’t talking, either, but when a journalist goes a little too far in trying to get the story of the lost journals, and the two men’s friends and family are put squarely in the face of danger, Du Pré doesn’t have much choice but to wade in and set things right.
Stewball (Gabriel Du Pre #12)
Gabriel Du Pré’s Aunt Pauline has a list of husbands and ex-husbands and future husbands even she herself has trouble remembering. So Du Pré isn’t exactly surprised when she shows up in Toussaint complaining that her current man, a lovable roughneck named Badger, has run off. His longer-than-usual absence has Pauline worried, and Du Pré promises to look into exactly what sort of trouble he has gotten himself into.
No one quite imagines, least of all Pauline, that the first thing Du Pré will find in his investigation is Badger’s body, lying in a remote part of the Montana wilderness with a bullet-hole in the base of his skull. Du Pré has a hunch his old friend and foil Harvey Wallace will be interested in the case-after all, Gabriel Du Pré’s Montana is teeming with just the sorts of people that tend to interest Wallace’s employers, the FBI, and the odds that Badger got mixed up with them seem inordinately high.
The trail leads straight into the teeming underworld of illegal, remote brush races involving a ragtag bunch of traveling horsemen, with many thousands of dollars wagered upon each race. Forced to go undercover to determine how Badger met his end, Du Pré finds his own horse and jockey to bet on in another complicated, fascinating outing for Montana’s favorite Métis son.
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Bitter Creek (Gabriel Du Pre #14)
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