{"product_id":"coyote-wind-paperback","title":"Coyote Wind - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Bowen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst in the crime-fiction series set in the modern-day west, starring a half-French, half-Indian \"character of legendary proportions\" (Ridley Pearson). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell livestock 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 Métis Indian lends a hand. When the sheriff offers gas money to investigate newly discovered plane wreckage in the desert, Du Pré quickly finds himself embroiled in a mystery stretching back a generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For three decades, the crashed plane 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, the skull, and the bullet that ended his life. The crime was hidden long ago, but in the Montana badlands, nothing stays buried forever . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Gabriel Du Pré, \"Bowen has taken the antihero of Hemingway and Hammett and brought him up to date . . . a fresh, memorable character\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoyote Wind \u003c\/i\u003eis the 1st book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Bowen (b. 1945) is best known for his 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Following time at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana, he published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eYellowstone Kelly\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1987. After two more novels featuring the real-life western hero, Bowen published \u003ci\u003eCoyote Wind\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), which introduced Gabriel Du Pré, a mixed-race lawman living in fictional Toussaint, 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. Bowen continues to live and write in Livingston, Montana. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 178\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42717747970111,"sku":"9781453247136","price":19.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e3dc916ed1a7ce37444f3ba38d9c41ed.webp?v=1765079540","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/coyote-wind-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}