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Wolf, No Wolf (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Peter Bowen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
A half-Indian, half-French deputy with “a shrewd mind and wry sense of humor” investigates a case of homicide on the range (The New York Times Book Review).
 
Two men have been cutting fences at the ranches of Toussaint, Montana, loosing thousands of dollars’ worth of cattle to use as target practice for their .22 rifles. Are they thieves? Pranksters? Local cattle inspector and sometime deputy Gabriel Du Pré guesses they’re environmentalists, agitating for the reintroduction of native wolves to Montana’s high plains. Du Pré knows the perpetrators are trying to send a message to the ranchers of eastern Montana—he also has a hunch they’re already dead.

When the activists are indeed found shot to death, Du Pré must figure out who used them for target practice. The FBI descends, but their agents are as clueless in this territory as the hapless victims were. Clearly, one of Toussaint’s citizens committed this crime, killing to protect the traditional way of ranching life, a loyalty Du Pré shares. But if anyone’s going to arrest his people, it will be the cattle inspector himself . . .
 
Wolf, No Wolf is the third in “a wonderfully eclectic and enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans” (Booklist).

Wolf, No Wolf is the 3rd book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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    March 13, 2012
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Gabriel Du Pre (introduced in Bowen's two earlier books, Coyote Wind and Specimen Song) is fiddling for a crowd of dancers in the Toussaint Bar when strange news arrives: someone has cut the fences of several Montana ranchers and shot their cattle. Environmental protesters are suspected. But when the protesters are shot and burned in their cars, Du Pre must look for answers -- hindered by the FBI and by a winter storm that buries evidence and nearly buries him as well. Mingling Indian lore, humor, and a feel for the West, Wolf, No Wolf is a potential crime classic.

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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 tighter sense of order on the seemingly random body count draped across this loose narrative. Du Pre, a Metis Indian, talks somewhere between Tonto and Justin Wilson on PBS, plays a mean Cajun fiddle and occasionally takes on the mantle of sheriff's deputy in rural Montana. The area is experiencing growing pains as New Agers and yuppies come prospecting for meaning in the landscape. Environmentalists clash with ranchers, people are murdered, news cameras arrive and the FBI sticks its big federal nose into an area notorious for its suspicions of big government. Du Pre is so implausibly heroic, tough and romantic here that he will remind cynical readers of a vigorously sensitive leading character penned by Robert James Waller. All this would be forgivable if the plot held together, but Bowen struggles with his frontier metaphors, adding shamanism and ritual killing to the mix and generally failing to clarify the mechanics of so many deaths, which are hard to keep track of through the scrim of Du Pre's smug manliness.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007AUXRQC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller; Reprint edition (March 13, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 13, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 9.5 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 150405234X
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 270 ratings

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Peter Bowen (b. 1945) is best known for mystery novels set in the modern American West. He published his first novel, Yellowstone Kelly, in 1987. After two more novels featuring this real-life Western hero, Bowen published Coyote Wind (1994), which introduced Gabriel Du Pré, a mixed-race lawman living in fictional Toussaint, Montana. To date, he has written thirteen Du Pré mysteries. Bowen lives and writes in Livingston, Montana.

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  • CJM
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another page-turner from Mr. Bowen
    Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2020
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    I'm liking the main characters in these books more and more as I go along. I was given a copy of Yellowstone Kelly 30 years ago in junior high and for some reason - maybe the Louis L'Amour and Tom Clancy rut I was in - I didn't read it for a few years until out of boredom I picked it up and couldn't put it down. Like all my books I actually get into, like movies I like, I periodically went back and experienced it again to the point I not only know what's coming next but the dialogue pretty much word for word as well. I never good writing and I wished there was more from Peter Bowen although I feared any sequel to Yellowstone Kelly couldn't compare with the original. And I kind of drifted away from reading books for several years when the internet bug bit.

    Then in 2010 I had a bad car accident and was laid up for awhile and kind of lost in depression and I discovered Amazon Kindle (and Prime) and a way to buy (and rebuy, lol) and keep my favorite know-them-by-heart books and movies forever.

    And a handful of years ago I re-discovered Peter Bowen and Yellowstone Kelly when I got around to buying Yellowstone Kelly on Kindle. Then I bought and read the three sequels. Are they as good as the original? By and large, yes. I still find the original better in that it's funnier, introduces so many of the characters and develops them and establishes their relationship with Luther.

    And it was/is more "shocking" having read what is kind of the "anti-Louis" first. But the sequels are solid, the "new" characters are good for the most part and the humor is plentiful and amusing. I will say I think Mr. Bowen knew "when to say when" and ended the series before it became entirely formulaic and too repetitive and that it was on its way there when Luther finally (maybe?) "retired" for good.

    Those books were so good it took me awhile to pull the trigger on a whole new genre' from Peter Bowen and Du Pre' didn't "click* with me immediately like Luther did in the free sample I read of Coyote Wind but I rolled the dice and bought in to the concept.

    Now I've read Coyote Wind at least 3 times and have purchased and read the first two sequels as I've been able to afford them. I don't know that I will re-read or even read the whole series before I kick the bucket but they're all on my list and if I knew how to go about it I'd thank Peter Bowen personally for many, many hours of pleasure reading for a lifelong bookworm who considers the gifts of literacy and literature and a true love of reading to be among a handful of few true blessings in his life.
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  • Michael J. Meyer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Western - Old Values - Modern Times
    Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2020
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    Great description of Montana landscapes. Good solid storyline. Outside pressure on fixed western values brings conflict.
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  • Jili Power
    5.0 out of 5 stars always a great read...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2022
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    Peter Bowen has a superior skill in writing characters, plot, dialogue (in Montana speak and Métis patois) that makes it difficult to put the books down! I want to go right on to the next one! Can’t get enough! Mr. Bowen, please keep writing!
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  • green
    5.0 out of 5 stars Du Pre #3
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020
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    Du Pre is a law officer in remote eastern Montana confronted by a series of murders in a confrontation between locals and environmentalists outsiders. The characters are interesting, the story well-told, and book is well worth reading
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  • Ryan Good
    3.0 out of 5 stars All right
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020
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    My biggest problem with this book was the anti-environmentalist, anti-science bias. It came off as rednecky and ignorant. Is it legitimately true of rural areas? Absolutely, in most cases. And if that's all the author were doing- just realistically portraying the biases of rural people- I'd have been fine with it. But he clearly believes it himself, and showed it in his characterizations: the way he told it, all farmers, ranchers, and rural people intrinsically knew the land; all scientists and environmentalists were idiots who should shut up and stay in cities. The mystery aspects of the book was good, as Bowen's always are, but I detract points for that narrow-minded depiction.
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  • M, Compulsive Reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars Montana, Its Glories, Its People
    Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2007
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    Wolf/No Wolf is on the sad juxtoposition of those who have lived on the land and loved it, trying to eke out a living, and those who would like to return the Earth to its natural wonder. Interesting to point out that some environmentalists might be a tiny bit control-oriented, and that those against them may have agendas other than just protecting a way of life. Notches takes up serial killers, who prey on young people who may have been bounced from home or run from an abusive situation and are not just spoiled brats. Du Pre's solution to problems recalls Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee and Ellis Peters's Cadfael in which justice prevails, perhaps ignoring externally-applied laws. Additional is telling of a way of life of the Metis, of whom I never learned in school.
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  • shelley stallings
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff, a fun read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2014
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    Mr. Bowen's is good at making his characters seem real. The stories are well written and move along at a good pace. I plan on ordering many more in this series. I hope none of his readers decide to emulate Dupre's drinking and driving habits. My other worry is that the brand inspector will die young from all of the smoking and drinking. That would deprive me of reading about more of his interesting life in Montana.
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  • oldusedcop
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Best DuPre
    Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2014
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    This is the best DuPre yet; lots of mystery, murder, and mayhem. The reader is drawn into the DuPre persona, making it easy to picture the sometime brand investigator, sometime deputy sheriff, with an added bonus of another glimpse of the Metis, descendants of Indians and fur trappers whose homeland ranges across Canada and the northern United States. DuPre can be a man of violence, but also is a sensitive soul who soothes his own ghosts with music from his Metis fiddle while setting out to solve and even avenge deaths of his friends. The reader quickly comes to know DuPre very well. At the same time, we get an idea of the culture of ranchers trying to preserve livestock in conflict with interests who want open territory, Possible criticism would be Bowen's generous use of f-bombs, which add nothing to the story.
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