Author Information
Peter Bowen's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    September 2018
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

A Gabriel Du Pre Mystery

1 - Coyote Wind (Jul-1994)
2 - Specimen Song (Apr-1995)
3 - Wolf, No Wolf (Mar-1996)
4 - Notches (Feb-1997)
5 - Thunder Horse (Apr-1998)
6 - Long Son (Apr-1999)
7 - The Stick Game (Apr-2000)
8 - Cruzatte and Maria (Mar-2001)
9 - Ash Child (Apr-2002)
10 - Badlands (May-2003)
11 - The Tumbler (Apr-2004)
12 - Stewball (Apr-2005)
13 - Nails (Feb-2006)
14 - Bitter Creek (May-2015)
15 - Solus (Sep-2018)

Yellowstone Kelly

1 - Yellowstone Kelly (1988)
2 - Kelly Blue (1990)
3 - Imperial Kelly (Sep-1992)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • The fictional memoirs of Civil War veteran, scout, and explorer record his adventures in the Old West, the massacre of the Plains Indians, his journey to Africa, and the elimination of the Zulu Nation as a power...



  • The raunchy, picaresque memoirs of Yellowstone Kelly--Indian fighter, adventurer, scout, and scoundrel--chronicles his frontier odyssey, secret missions for General Grant, and the colorful people he encounters along the way...



  • Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly becomes mixed up in new wild adventures with Teddy Roosevelt and a young Winston Churchill as he joins the Roughriders at San Juan Hill in Cuba, finds his true love in the Philippines, and participates in the Boer War....



  • He's a grandfather. He's not pretty. But the women won't leave him alone... And neither will the truth. Under a wide Montana sky he plays the fiddle and dreams of the Red River. He talks to his ancestors and sees his youngest girl go from punk ...



  • Barroom fiddler and Metis Indian Gabriel Du Pre+a7 is swept up in a mystery at the nation's capital after a run-in with an egomaniacal anthropologist leads him to discover a series of killings that target Native Americans. Reprint....



  • Du Pre remembers when you could send animal skins to Sears Roebuck and get merchandise in return. Now the wolves are gone from the mountains, and outsiders want them back. The trouble is, a tussle over wildlife is getting people killed. First, two...



  • When the gruesome corpses of young women are discovered along a long Montana highway called the Hi-Lane, Gabriel Du Pre+a7 must journey inside a serial killer's mind as he follows a trail of mysterious messages that lead to a murderer. Reprint....



  • When an earthquake stops a Japanese corporation's plan to develop Montana land, an ancient burial ground in revealed, and a snow-mobiler is found dead with a rare and valuable Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil, part-time sleuth Gabriel Du Pre+a7 begins to sus...



  • In Toussaint, Montana, old family secrets, forgotten for more than one hundred years, come to light after a young woman and her land-owning parents die under suspicious circumstances. When Larry Messmer, the brother and son of the victims, auctions o...






  • With their exceptional characterizations, evocative setting, and smartly plotted mysteries, Peter Bowen's Montana novels have always fascinated readers and critics alike. In The Stick Game, Bowen's lyrical, spare writing carries us once again to a pa...



  • In his eighth outing, Metis-Indian fiddler, tracker, and amateur sleuth Gabriel Du Pre is called upon by his daughter Maria and her fiance to act as historical advisor for a documentary film about the Lewis & Clark expedition. Du Pre is the descendan...



  • A tracker helps a paleontological research team cross the plains of Wyoming in search of a "three-toed horse," in a novel based on the real-life exploits of Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly, a nineteenth-century hunter, rancher, and scout in the American W...



  • It's dry season in Montana, and fires blazing west of Touissant have spread to the Wolf Mountains. Métis-Indian fiddler, tracker, and reluctant sleuth Gabriel Du Pré suspects the fires have been intentionally set and are linked to the recent murder...



  • 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 s...



  • Gabriel Du Pre, the old Metis fiddler at the center of Peter Bowen's atmospheric, engrossing series set in the dirty, dusty Montana that's rarely featured in travel brochures, has a knack for finding trouble. Or rather, trouble has a knack for findin...



  • Gabriel Du Pre's Aunt Pauline has a list of husbands and ex-husbands and future husbands even she herself has trouble remembering. So Du Pre isn't exactly surprised when she shows up in Toussaint complaining that her current man, a lovable roughneck ...



  • When Gabriel Du Pre's precocious granddaughter Pallas returns from her studies in Washington, D.C., the entire clan in Toussaint, Montana, is happy to see her. Except Du Pre, that is, because the crotchety old fiddlin' cowboy knows that where Pallas ...



  • In the latest installment of Peter Bowen’s acclaimed mystery series, Gabriel Du Pré investigates a century-old crime Lieutenant John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq and the son of...



  • Gabriel Du Pré is back in action, coming to the aid of a whistleblower on the run, in this all-new novel in a “wonderfully eclectic and enjoyable series” (Booklist). When a hunted military whistleblower and his family need someplace to hide a...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Bowen has published 19 books.

Peter Bowen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Solus, was published in September 2018.

The first book by Peter Bowen, Yellowstone Kelly, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Peter Bowen has 2 series.