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The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Volume Two: Notches, Thunder Horse, and Long Son Kindle Edition

by Peter Bowen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
The contemporary western mystery series continues in these novels featuring a half Indian cattle inspector and “character of legendary proportions” (Ridley Pearson).
 
Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure 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 Métis Indian lends a hand. In Gabriel Du Pré, “Bowen has taken the antihero of Hemingway and Hammett and brought him up to date . . . a fresh, memorable character” (The New York Times Book Review).
 
Notches: Working alongside a Blackfoot FBI agent and his feisty female partner, Du Pré tracks a serial killer hunting young women in the Montana wilderness.
 
“A haunting tale, punched out in arresting rhythms of speech powerful as a tribal drumbeat.” —Entertainment Weekly
 
Thunder Horse: After an earthquake exposes an ancient burial site, Native American tribes fight over the remains and a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex tooth is found in the hands of a murdered anthropologist. Time for Du Pré to start digging.
 
“Strange, seductive . . . The wonder of these voices is that they are . . . blunt, crude, soaked in whiskey and raspy from laughter, but still capable of leaving echoes.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
 
Long Son: After greedy, vicious Larry Messmer inherits his parents’ ranch, the FBI asks Du Pré to keep an eye on the pathological prodigal son. When violence inevitably erupts, Du Pré finds himself caught in the crosshairs.
 
“Bowen’s writing is lean and full of mordant observations. His hardy characters . . . come to life, and his wry humor . . . provides relief from the haunting, wind-bitten cattle-ranch landscape.” —Publishers Weekly
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Peter Bowen (b. 1945) is an author best known for mystery novels set in the modern American West. When he was ten, Bowen’s family moved to Bozeman, Montana, where a paper route introduced him to the grizzled old cowboys who frequented a bar called The Oaks. Listening to their stories, some of which stretched back to the 1870s, Bowen found inspiration for his later fiction.

Following time at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana, Bowen published his first novel, Yellowstone Kelly, in 1987. After two more novels featuring the real-life Western hero, Bowen published Coyote Wind (1994), which introduced Gabriel Du Pré, a mixed-race lawman living in fictional Toussaint, Montana. Bowen has written fourteen novels in the series, in which Du Pré gets tangled up in everything from cold-blooded murder to the hunt for rare fossils. Bowen continues to live and write in Livingston, Montana.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07J6S73H7
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (October 16, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 16, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 16.4 MB
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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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  • Kay
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best Montana stories
    Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2023
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    This is the best DuPre book so far. It is a meld of a sparkling mystery, history, and music . Everything leads back to Genevette, a white ranchers Indian woman. When the ranchers white wife is coming, he sends Genevette and her young children out into the Wolf mountains in early winter. This betrayal echos down through the generations surviving in the old songs.

    I love all the characters and the rhythm of the Metis speech. Humor is mostly understated and sometimes laugh out loud element that runs through each chapter.
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  • Kindlsondra thorn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Notches
    Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2023
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    This series is among the best books I have ever read. I only wish I could hear the music. I am 87 and have read constantly since I was 5. I have read some of the greatest classics written.None have moved me as much as the history of the Metis.
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  • ralph blackburn
    4.0 out of 5 stars Du Pre' Rides Again!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2022
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    This 2nd volume has 3 enjoyable adventures set in the beautiful Montana mountains. Lots of Native American lore adds so much to these stories. It's like a history lesson and a mystery wrapped in a potent package.
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  • ealovitt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Three of Bowen’s best Du Pré mysteries
    Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020
    Notches

    Du Pré, master fiddler and part-time brand inspector is cast in the role of hunter in "Notches" where he is asked to assist police on the trail of two serial killers.

    There are good reasons why the police might not want Du Pré at the scene of a crime. He spits a lot as he circles the corpse, rolls his own cigarettes and mashes them out beneath his boot heel. A forensic specialist would find traces of him all over the scene. In "Notches," he even hides evidence because he wants to track a killer without interference from the FBI.

    On the plus side, nothing at the scene escapes him. If he is called in to examine one body, he may find two others near by that no one else has noticed--which is exactly what occurs in "Notches." Someone has been killing girls and dumping them "like old guts in the brush for the coyotes to eat," according to Du Pré's long-time mistress, Madelaine.

    There are two serial killers on the loose in "Notches" which makes for a confusing plot. There are also two FBI agents who add to the scenery, but don't do much more than engage in slanging matches with Du Pré. Madelaine finally presses Du Pré into tracking the killers down when her own daughter runs away from home.

    Du Pré is laconic to the point of partial sentences, but the interrupted staccato of his speech is a perfect counterpoint to the harsh Montana landscape and to the sometimes abbreviated lives of its inhabitants. Over 150 corpses form an even grimmer than usual backdrop to Du Pré's musings on the long history of his people and the land.

    "Notches" is not so much a murder mystery as it is a complex landscape of hell from the pen of a Montanan Hieronymus Bosch.

    Thunder Horse

    The ‘Thunder Horse’ of the title is Tyrannosaurus Rex, although it could also refer to the earthquake that starts out this fifth Gabriel Du Pré mystery with a bang.

    All of the regulars are at the Touissant Bar listening to Du Pré make sad Voyageur music on his fiddle, when the Big One rumbles in. It doesn’t seem fair that Montana should have avalanches, grizzlies, Alberta Clippers, and earthquakes, but I guess it keeps the outlanders from swarming all over the scenery.

    The murder of an outlander on a snowmobile plus an assault on his friend Bart force Du Pré back into his role as a reluctant detective. He gets the usual amount of playful misdirection from the Shaman Benetsee, practical advice from his mistress, Madelaine, and homicidal commentary from the ancient Booger Tom.

    The earthquake shifted mountains, dried up springs, uncovered bones---17,000 year-old human skeletons of a Caucasian people that Benetsee calls the Horned Star Folk.

    How did the shaman know that a horned star amulet would be found among the bones? How old is Benetsee, anyway? Is he the enigmatic Walker in the Snow?

    T Rex bones mix in with the skeletons of the mysterious Horned Star Folk, along with a yellow, radioactive uranium clay that was once used for face paint. Du Pré alternates between hard drinking, hallucinatory sweat baths, and journeys through the eerie and death-dealing badlands of Montana before he can begin to work out how these three things fit together---and how the completed pattern points to a killer.

    “Thunder Horse” is one of the best of the Du Pré mysteries. Peter Bowen’s Montana badlands are haunted by the people who once lived there---Norwegian homesteaders; Crow; Cheyenne; the Métis descendants of Voyageurs; the Horned Star folk who paddled down long-vanished rivers from the Arctic. Their bones and legends are the heart of this mystery.

    Long Son

    Sometimes a family can live like an unhealed sore in the body of a community, threatening to infect the innocent, generation after generation. In the case of the Messmer family, evil skipped a generation then returned full force to destroy what remained of the good.

    This sixth Gabriel Du Pré mystery begins at an auction on the Messmer family ranch, about forty miles west of Toussaint. The current owners died in a road accident and the one remaining son is selling almost all of the moveable property. The FBI wants Du Pré to keep an eye on the ranch and the surviving son, but he resists the request of Harvey Wallace, aka Harvey Weasel Fat, Blackfoot and FBI agent:

    “’I am old, tired, want to drink, sleep, play a little music,’ said Du Pré. ‘You call, I get no sleep, drink too much, don’t play music, maybe get shot at, something. Maybe I hang up, you call back I am gone, no one knows where.’”

    Du Pré doesn’t disappear but his friend, the Shaman Benetsee does (at least, temporarily). Something evil is afoot on the Messmer ranch, something so dangerous that Du Pré’s long-time mistress, Madelaine decides to pay a visit to her Turtle Mountain kin. Du Pré, who is on the villains’ hit list bunks up with his friends Bart and Booger Tom.

    Even as the plot tangles in on itself, the author, Peter Bowen moves from strength to strength in allowing his readers to experience the haunting, intensely familial, whisky-soaked lives of his Métis characters. ‘The Song of Genevette’ is an old Métis ballad whose verses Du Pré must complete in order to find the murderer. It also leads him into the heart of the evil that seeped down through generations of Messmers, and caused their ultimate doom.
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