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Coyote Wind

Auteur(s): Peter Bowen
Narrateur(s): Christopher Lane
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 Montana, "the last best place" of the disappearing American West, is the setting of Peter Bowen's splendid first mystery novel in a series to feature Gabriel Du Pre. A cattle-brand inspector and occasional sheriff's deputy, Du Pre moves easily among the ranchers, cowboys, Native Americans, barflies, dreamers, and Eastern dudes who populate what's left of the frontier.

In the desolate hills of the Fascelli family ranch, a skeleton has been discovered. The sheriff needs Du Pre's long experience in Montana to identify the bones. What Du Pre finds leads him on a search through the history of a troubled family, a search that brings him closer to a secret from his own past. Along the way, Du Pre meets a range of interesting folk, some to his liking, some decidedly not.

©1994 Peter Bowen (P)2003 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Roman policier Suspense Thrillers et romans à suspense Ranch Montana Fiction

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"Gabe's rhythmic, regional voice and his sly wit take the novel to another level....Let's hope Bowen...finds time to give us many more Gabe Du Pre adventures." (Booklist)
"The great story and narration make this a most enjoyable production." (Kliatt)
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This book is painfully bad. It's basically a Hardy Boys-level mystery with woefully-placed F-bombs and nonsensical sex/sexual innuendo (including - I'm not kidding - incest jokes).
It's courageous of Peter Bowen to make his protagonist a detestable asshole, I guess, but you would expect some redeeming antihero features (at least) so that Bowen's readers can cheer for the guy to solve the crime.

I frankly didn't care.

Gabriel DuPré is just an incorrigible prick. Bowen creates a character dripping with uncaring selfish attitude, open race-hatred, blatant misogyny, and sheer contempt for humanity. DuPré's expletive-laden, badly-written patois is genuinely cartoonish (think "racist Disney film from the 30s"). This book constantly reminded me that this World is full of awful people. On top of the mindblowing deficiencies in characterization, the "mystery" in this tale is uninteresting (basically.. some unidentified skeletons are found in the bush), the vocabulary/prose is weak, and the dialogue is hard to tolerate.
Thankfully, it's short. I kept listening to the end out of sheer amazement that someone published this
..oh, and the hilarity (I nearly peed myself at some of the stereotypes).

My jaw was left hanging at the audacity that someone would write actual sentences like these.

I don't entirely blame Christopher Lane for the brutal performance.. but it's pretty bad. On the one hand, how Lane delivered the dialogue he was given without breaking into laughter is straight-up incredible. Lane's dedication to professionalism - with persistent creditable diction, timbre, and cadence - is commendable.
On the other, his attempts at French/Indian accents are simply awful.. and he starts off interested enough, but noticeably slips into a bored "let's just wrap this up" tone by Chapter 10. I swear I heard a *sigh*.

If you're looking for a parody of a mystery with actual laugh-out-loud caricatures of First Nations people - feel free to download this 1.5/10 star mess.
Even for free, it's hard to justify spending time on it, however. If they ask for a Credit, you're an idiot to even consider it.

Someone Rated this Highly!?! OMG. RUN!

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