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A "plain-spoken, deep-thinking Montana cattle inspector" takes on a serial killer in DC (The New York Times Book Review).With misgivings, cattle inspector and sometime deputy Gabriel Du Pré has left his hometown of Toussaint, Montana, for big-city Washington, DC, where the Métis Indian fiddler has agreed to play his people's music for a Smithsonian festival. But like the frightened and confused horse galloping wildly down the National Mall, Du Pré is very much out of his element. He show more does know how to catch and calm a runaway horse, however.
If only catching a killer could be so simple. When a Cree woman from Canada who came to sing in the festival is found murdered, her death is just the first in a series of fatal attacks on Native Americans. Each killing is foretold by a shaman, and each time a primitive weapon is used. As the body count rises, Du Pré fears he might be the serial killer's ultimate target.
New York Times–bestselling author Ridley Pearson says about Peter Bowen's Montana mysteries: "The best of Tony Hillerman meets Zane Grey . . . Du Pré is a character of legendary proportions." And Booklist calls Gabriel Du Pré "one of the most unusual characters working the fictional homicide beat."
Specimen Song is the 2nd book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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I did not actually finish the book. I could not finish because I felt so irritated by the writing style. I got frustrated each time I attempted to read it. It is rare that a book bothers me so much that I can't at least get half way.
Gabriel Du Pré est un sang-mêlé, lointain descendant des tribus indiennes du Canada pénétrées par des "voyageurs" français (québécois) convertis au catholicisme et émigrés aux Etats-Unis à la fin du XIX° siècle. Héritier de cette culture riche et complexe, Gabriel est un cow-boy poète, vérificateur de bétail et virtuose du violon, mais surtout défenseur de la justice. Aussi, lorsque le shérif de la petite ville de Toussaint est confronté à des morts suspectes, ce veuf et père de deux filles est-il toujours prêt à lui prêter main-forte. Epaulé par son amie Madelaine, Benetsee, vieux sorcier indien quelque peu alcoolique et mystique, et son riche ami Bart, Gabriel mène ses enquêtes, entre éleveurs de bétail show more toujours prêts à dégainer, policiers locaux dangereusement incapables et fédéraux hargneux. show less
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- Canonical title
- Specimen Song
- Original publication date
- 1995
- People/Characters
- Gabriel DuPre; Paul Chase
- Important places
- Montana, USA; Washington, D.C., USA; Canada
- Dedication
- For Tim Gable, bookseller, wry raconteur, and grouch
- First words
- Du Pre had never sweated like he was sweating in all his life.
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