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Title: Notches (Montana Mystery (Hardcover)) by Peter Bowen, George Witte ISBN: 0-312-96492-7 Publisher: St Martins Pr (Mm) Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: On the track of two killers
Comment: "Notches" is the fourth mystery in Bowen's series that features Gabriel Du Pré, Métis descendant of the French Voyageurs and Plains Indians.
There are reasons 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, who after all is said and done isn't even a policeman, merely a part-time brand inspector. 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. This book is not so much a murder mystery as it is a complex landscape of hell from the pen of a Montanan Hieronymus Bosch.
Rating: 5
Summary: GABRIEL DU PRE, THE METIS AVENGING ANGEL
Comment: Gabriel DuPre is my hero. He says and does what he wants and doesn't care what anybody thinks, he is his own man. When the mutilated and tortured bodies of several young girls and women start turning up around Toussaint, Montana, the FBI calls on Gabriel to help them solve the cases. Madelaine, Gabriel's spitfire of a girlfriend, adds fuel to the fire by telling Gabriel to find the killer and protect her girls.
Even if you don't agree with everything that Gabriel believes in or does, he will make you think. You will love this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pret' good stuff that Bowen write. Make me want more.
Comment: Think Tony Hillerman liberally peppered with Cajun Hot sauce. After reading all the Montana mysteries now, I feel at home in Toussaint, Montana with Gabriel Du Pre, his rough-around-the-edges but sweetheart Madelaine; sobered up rich-boy-with-a-heart-of-gold Bart; crusty old Booger Tom; Benny and Susan Klein; Benetsee that shaman he remind me of Yoda and the rest of the rural Montana populace. If you're not careful you'll catch yourself thinking and talking with that DuPre Coyote French Metis clip. These are unique personalities with real voices that Bowen has pieced together. I feel as if I know them....like I want to hang with them at the bar and be there when Gabriel gets his fiddle out and makes that Metis music that draws the crowd and brings back the voyageurs; be around when the next bad thing happens and draws Gabriel and the others into figuring out whodunit. This is original work that's refreshing, honest, beautifully crafted and fun to read. I hope that Bowen he's home right now writing more mysteries from Montana.
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Title: The Stick Game: A Gabriel Du Pre Mystery (Montana Mystery (Hardcover)) by Peter Bowen ISBN: 0312202970 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 09 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Cruzatte & Maria : A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pre (Montana Mystery (Hardcover)) by Peter Bowen ISBN: 0312262531 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 14 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Long Son : A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pre by Peter Bowen ISBN: 0312253982 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Badlands: A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pre by Peter Bowen ISBN: 0312262523 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Ash Child : A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pre by Peter Bowen ISBN: 0312288506 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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