Montana Mystery S.
5 total works
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 Pre 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 Pre 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 Metis tradition of storytelling.
The cult members keep to themselves, but the suspicious circumstances under which they've arrived have Gabriel Du Pre 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 Pre 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 Metis tradition of storytelling.
Bks. 3 & 4
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, humour columns and essays on blood sports as Coyote Jack and the Gabriel Du Pre mysteries, in part because "the Metis are a great people, a wonderful people, and not many people know anything about them."
Investigating the murder of his eccentric aunt's latest husband, Gabriel Du Pr turns for help to old friend and FBI agent Harvey Wallace and uncovers a host of suspects in Montana. By the author of The Stick Game and Thunder Horse. 10,000 first printing."
Gabriel Du Pre, the protagonist of Peter Bowen's atmospheric, engrossing series set in the dirty, dusty Montana prairie lands, is besieged by a rumour about a parcel containing the lost' journals of Lewis and Clark. Outsiders are beginning to invade Toussaint, drawn by the spirit of the legendary explorers, not to mention the payoff for those to come up with the priceless journals. When Du Pre's friends and family wind up squarely in the face of danger, he doesn't have much choice but to wade in and fight it out, hoping to protect those who are most dear to him.
A van full of praying, protesting fundamentalist Christians has arrived in Toussaint at about the time that Gabriel Du Pre's precocious granddaughter Pallas returns from her studies in Washington, DC. A young soldier follows, just back from Iraq missing a let, and eye, and his grip on reality. Du Pre suspects that he's going to have his hands full for the foreseeable future. First, graffiti appears on the door of a local church, and then a cryptic phone call from a missing girl causes concern in town. When a confluence of these strange events and even stranger people threatens problems that even laid back Du Pre can't ignore, another quirky, compelling, and purely enjoyable mystery unfolds in Peter Bowen's Montana, a land trouble tends to visit often, with unpredictable but fiercely entertaining results.