About the Author

Peter 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.
 
Following time at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana, he 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 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.
 

Reviews

“Bowen’s prose is often droll and his characters well-etched.” —Publishers Weekly “One of the most unusual characters working the fictional homicide beat . . . powerfully poetic but unsentimental.” —Booklist “The best of Tony Hillerman meets Zane Grey . . . Du Pré is a character of legendary proportions.” —Ridley Pearson, author of The Angel Maker and No Witness