In the latest installment of Peter Bowen's acclaimed mystery series, Gabriel Du Pré investigates a century-old crime Lieutenant John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq and the son of Gabriel Du Pré's girlfriend, to accept the Navy Cross. First, however, Du Pré and Patchen must find the wounded marine, who was last seen drinking heavily in the Toussaint Saloon. They locate him soon enough,...

Sherriff Gabriel Du Pre investigates the shooting deaths of seven defecting members of a recently relocated California cult. Du Pre may well be the most unusual character in mystery fiction: He s illiterate, smokes too much, is never without his flask, gets pulled over when he s not driving 30 miles over the speed limit (local law enforcement worry he s sick), and is by far the sharpest knife in the drawer. Desperate ranchers, authentic Western...

In Montana, PI Gabriel Du Pre, a metis cattle inspector, investigates the death of a snowmobiler who was shot in the back. The victim was carrying the tooth of a dinosaur, a fossil worth a lot of money.

When Larry Messmer decides to auction off the cattle from his family ranch in the Wolf Mountains, old family secrets come to light. Then a woman is found dead in her car in Wyoming. Clues point to Larry Messmer and Gabriel Du Pré reluctantly agrees to keep an eye on him for the FBI.

"When a hunted military whistleblower and his family need someplace to hide and someone to trust, Toussaint, Montana, is the place, and Gabriel Du Pre the man. The Metis Indian former cattle inspector and sometimes deputy is happy to offer protection, even though he's already got his hands full with an ailing granddaughter, a meddling medicine man, and a Kazakh eagle hunter prowling the hills above town. As a guard at a Kabul prison, Hoyt Poe witnessed...

When Gabriel Du Pré investigates the brutal death of an old woman and encounters two teenagers skulking about at the scene of the crime, Gabriel must race to catch a killer who has a penchant for fire.

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...

A tracker helps a paleontological research team cross the plains of Wyoming in search of a "three-toed horse," in a novel based on the real-life exploits of Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly, a nineteenth-century hunter, rancher, and scout in the American West.

The beginning of the legend of Yellowstone Kelly, one of the Old West's most outsized personalities. Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly had one of the longest, strangest, and most breathtaking careers in the Old West. The intrepid scout's talent for being in the right place at an exciting time would take him all over the world, from the Great Plains to Africa to the Philippines. Throughout his adventures, Kelly maintained a stoic outlook, a fierce wit, and...

In the first novel, two activists are killed and four others die in a storm that could have been avoided, and in the second novel, Gabriel Du Pré must journey inside a serial killer's mind as he follows a trail of corpses.