A decades-old plane crash leads Du Pre to possible murder, and to a
landowner with dark secrets Officially, Gabriel Du Pre is the
cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making
sure that 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 hybrid of
Indian and Frenchman lends a hand. When the Sheriff offers gas
money to investigate newly discovered plane wreckage in the desert,
Du Pre quickly finds himself embroiled in a mystery stretching back
a generation. For three decades the crashed plane has sat in the
sun as the bodies inside rotted away to their bones. Two skeletons
are whole, but for one nothing remains but the hands, skull, and
the bullet that ended his life. The crime was hidden long ago, but
in the Montana badlands, nothing stays buried forever. "Bowen has
taken the antihero of Hemingway and Hammett and brought him up to
date. . . . As the best literary novels are able to do, Coyote Wind
brings many worlds together and hones the language to create a
fresh, memorable character and a profound vision." -The New York
Times Book Review "Distinguished by realistic dialogue, a fluid
inclusion of local history and Du Pre's convincing concern with
guilt, repentance and tradition, this is a deeply textured tale."
-Publishers Weekly "Gabe's rhythmic, regional voice and his sly wit
take the novel to another level." -Booklist 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 Pre, a mixed-race lawman living
in fictional Toussaint, Montana. Bowen has written thirteen novels
in the series, in which Du Pre gets tangled up in everything from
cold-blooded murder to the hunt for rare fossils. Bowen continues
to live and write in Livingston, Montana.
General
Imprint: |
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2023 |
First published: |
March 2012 |
Authors: |
Peter Bowen
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Dimensions: |
215 x 139 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
178 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4532-4713-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4532-4713-0 |
Barcode: |
9781453247136 |
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