"A terrific writer .
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.
Thunder Horse is the 5th book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Instead he found a murder sixty-five million years in the making.
Du Pré had just wanted a beer.
As local Native American tribes fight over the ancient remains, a fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth is found in the hands of a murdered anthropologist.
In its place is an uprooted Indian burial ground-and a massive headache for Du Pré.
Roads are mangled, mountains have shifted, and the spring where the Japanese businessmen had planned to build their resort is no more.
When they emerge from the bar, they see a new landscape.
The floor trembles, the lights go out, and glass rains from the walls.
When the earthquake hits, part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pré and his friends are lamenting the fishing resort a Japanese firm has planned for their small town.
Usually it takes more than one beer to make the Toussaint Saloon shake.
Thunder Horse makes this reviewer want to race to the bookstore for the rest of the Gabriel Du Pré series" ( Rocky Mountain News ). . . "A terrific writer
