A Montana deputy takes on a mining company that\'s poisoning reservation children in a novel the Washington Post calls "wonderful [and] wise." Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation.
Bowen continues to live and write in Livingston, Montana..
He has written fifteen novels in the series, in which Du Pré 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 Pré, 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 author(s): Peter Bowen (b.
The Stick Game is the 7th book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. greed" ( Publishers Weekly ). [in this] tale of grace vs. . . "In other hands, melodrama could easily rear its head and trample the scenery, but Bowen has a firm grip on his large cast of interesting players .
But is there something more than greed and indifference at work? Something even more sinister? Du Pré will make it his business to find out.
It wouldn\'t be the first time the rich men of Montana found wealth at the expense of the reservation\'s kids.
When the boy turns up dead, the accordionist\'s theory gains credence.
Meanwhile, Du Pré investigates the disappearance of one of the afflicted children.
While playing his fiddle in a reservation bar, part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pré meets an accordionist who suspects the children\'s health defects and low test scores are connected to pollution from the nearby Persephone gold mine.
Life has always been tough on this barren stretch just south of the Canadian border, but now the children are getting sick.
A Montana deputy takes on a mining company that\'s poisoning reservation children in a novel the Washington Post calls "wonderful [and] wise." Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation
