Yellowstone Kelly, gunfighter, scout, tracker, ladies' man and legend in his own lifetime, makes his fourth appearance in this rollicking western set in the 1870s that is not so much a mystery as a bawdy comic yarn enlivened by Kelly's own...
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Peter Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-28850-1
This compelling series, set in a contemporary Wild West where little old ladies come into the saloon, order red beers and go home and shoot at meddlesome strangers, offers another success. Gabriel Du Pré (last seen in 2001's Cruzatte and...
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Peter Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-26252-5
Gabriel Du Pré, Bowen's hard-drinking, fast-driving, fiddle-playing western hero, investigates the activities of a sinister religious cult that purchases a huge cattle ranch in the 10th entry in this gripping and humorous series (after 2002&
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Peter Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-312-27733-8
Distinctive characters and the rich Montana setting lift Bowen's Gabriel Du Pré adventure, the 11th (after 2003's Badlands
) to feature the Metis-Indian tracker. Billionaire Markham Millbank wants to buy the journals of explorer...
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Peter Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-312-27730-7
In Bowen's winning 12th Gabriel Du Pré novel, the Montana lawman agrees to help his Aunt Pauline find her current husband, Badger, who's gone missing. Du Pré contacts his FBI friend, Harvey Wallace, who shows him a photo of...
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Peter Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-312-31207-7
The 13th entry in Bowen's admirable, highly original Gabriel Du Pré series (after 2005's Stewball
) features his most followable plot in years as well as unusually forthright social commentary on such topics as the war in Iraq, the...
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Peter Bowen, Author Crown Publishers $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58285-5
This burlesque rewrite of American history stars roguish Maj. Luther ``Yellowstone'' Kelly, hero of dime novelist Ned Buntline. Here Kelly (last seen in Kelly Blue ) tries desperately to duck the orders of that dangerous, childish superpatriot,...
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Peter Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-312-10957-8
The author of the Yellowstone Kelly mysteries introduces a new regional detective in Montana cattle inspector and sometime sheriff's deputy, Gabriel Du Pre, a Metis, whose ancestors are French and Cree. The 40-year-old widower and father of two...
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Peter Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (201p) ISBN 978-0-312-11896-9
Bowen sustains interest in this follow-up to Coyote Wind despite the lack of a believable suspect, discernible clues or a precise sense of place. He relies on his unusual protagonist, Gabriel Du Pre, a laconic rancher, fiddle player and self-mocking,
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Peter Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14078-6
A careful and sympathetic reading of this third in Bowen's original yet uneven Gabriel Du Pre series (after Coyote Wind and Specimen Song) may bring small rewards. On the other hand, traditional mystery fans will wish that Bowen had imposed a...
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Peter Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-15181-2
Bowen builds this absorbing tale of vengeance, his fourth Montana-based Gabriel Du Pre mystery, around long-unsolved, continuing serial killings. As in Specimen Song (1995) and Wolf, No Wolf (1996), Bowen excels at depicting the liminal, shifting...
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Peter Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-18303-5
Montana cattle-brand inspector Gabriel Du Pre is banging on the door of archeologist Aaron Morgenstern's apartment in the historic Baxter Hotel, the tallest building in Bozeman. The old man who opens the door asks Du Pre: ""Are you the goddamned Red
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Peter Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-312-19917-3
With his distinctive, minimalist prose, Bowen (Thunder Horse, etc.) once again transports readers to the vast open spaces of Montana, in the sixth entry of his Gabriel Du Pr series. Sociopath Larry Messmer has returned to Toussaint, Mont., to take...
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Peter Bowen, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-312-20297-2
The Stick Game--a combination of brazen bluff, shrewd guesses and inspired storytelling played by teams from various Native American tribes--is an apt metaphor for Bowen's seventh book (after 1999's Long Son) about crusty Montana crime-solver...
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Peter Bowen, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-26253-2
The fierce and fiercely guarded independence of Montanans is always on display in Bowen's series about Gabriel Du Pr , the Metis-Indian fiddler whose sleuthing talents and survival skills often take surprising turns. In his eighth outing (following...
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