Badlands Library Edition

Praise for the Gabriel Du Preacute; Mysteries Ash Child "Bowen's stories are always well constructed and very intelligent. . . . Like so many outstanding but wildly different crime series, from James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels to Steven Havill's Bill Gastner series, the Du Preacute; stories are about a vanishing way of life and the determined souls who fight a rearguard action to keep it alive. . . . [A] dazzling entry in a wonderful series."---Booklist (starred review) "Peter Bowen does for Montana what Tony Hillerman does for New Mexico. . . . picturesque, totally absorbing, and utterly charming . . . Anyone who has not read a Gabriel Du Preacute; mystery is missing out on something special."---Midwest Book Review Cruzatte and Maria "A fine introduction both to Bowen's work and to another Montana---that is, the real state behind the charmingly rustic dude ranch and country living fantasy . . . imaginative."---Ben Kaufmann, San Jose Mercury News The Stick Game "Bowen's rock-hewn hero is a solid man with lusty appetites who loves red meat, liquor, and tobacco, plays a smoking fiddle, and is faithful to his woman. But a shrewd mind and wry sense of humor assert themselves eloquently in an austere tribal idiom that eschews such fluff as prepositions and rarely departs from the present tense of language---and of life."---Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Long Son "Peter Bowen writes about the rural West better than just about anyone . . . gets it right over and over again."---Rocky Mountain NewsBowen, Peter is the author of 'Badlands Library Edition', published 2003 under ISBN 9780312262525 and ISBN 0312262523.