A secretive millennial cult from California purchases a ranch on the outskirts of the Montana badlands---the eerily silent, dry, and windy dead zone---and the Toussaint townsfolk are none too pleased.The cult members keep to themselves, but the suspicious circumstances under which they’ve arrived...
This is a book about character and place. The murder mystery moves the story forward, but is used mostly to tell us about the character of Gabriel DuPre. In fact, it doesn't really work well as a murder mystery because its solution comes mostly from a deus ex machina in the form of a local quasi-...
PROTAGONIST: Gabriel du PreSETTING: MontanaSERIES: #4 of 13RATING: 3.25WHY: Much to my surprise, I found that I had missed some books in this series, which is a favorite of mine. It's all about the characters. The plot didn't really hold up all that well. At least 2 men have been killing girl...
Gabriel Du Pre begins a canoe expedition up a Canadian river. A run-in with an egomanical anthropologist on the trip leads Du Pre into an unsolved series of bizarre deaths of Native Americans. Now, back in Montana, a medicine man sees a terrible truth, a killer is out of control, with only one ec...
The beginning of the legend of Yellowstone Kelly, one of the Old West’s most out-sized personalities Luther “Yellowstone” Kelly had one of the longest, strangest, and most breathtaking careers in the Old West. The intrepid scout’s talent for being in the right place at an exciting time would tak...
WELCOME TO RYLAND said the sign. The Sheriff’s Department was in the old courthouse, a structure ten times larger than the county now needed. The post office sat across the street. Du Pré went in, got an express mail box, put the book and the letters in it, scribbled an ad...