" An] enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C.
Bowen continues to live and write in Livingston, Montana..
He has written fifteen novels in the series, in which Du Pr gets tangled up in everything from cold-blooded murder to the hunt for rare fossils.
After two more novels featuring the real-life western hero, Bowen published Coyote Wind (1994), which introduced Gabriel Du Pr , a mixed-race lawman living in fictional Toussaint, Montana.
Following time at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana, he published his first novel, Yellowstone Kelly , in 1987.
Listening to their stories, some of which stretched back to the 1870s, Bowen found inspiration for his later fiction.
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. 1945) is best known for his mystery novels set in the modern American West.
About the Author: Peter Bowen (b.
Notches is the 4th book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pr series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. "Like the most memorable creations in detective fiction, Du Pr \'s] moral center is unshakeable" ( Booklist ).
But as more victims are found, and a young woman he cares about disappears, he will come to the grim realization that he must learn to think like this monster in order to catch him.
A message from the killer? But what does it mean? Working alongside a Blackfoot FBI agent and his feisty female partner, Du Pr , a father and grandfather with two daughters of his own, gives his all to the manhunt.
Not far from the victim, he finds two more murdered women, their bodies arranged over each other in a cross.
It\'s not long before Gabriel Du Pr , M tis Indian cattle inspector and occasional deputy, gets the call from Sheriff Benny Klein, summoning him to yet another grisly crime scene--this time in his own backyard.
The news is bad: five young women--so far--raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wilderness to be devoured by coyotes.
Box, Craig Johnson, and Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans" ( Booklist ).
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