A decades-old plane crash leads Du Pré to possible murder, and to a landowner with dark secrets Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure that no one tries to sell cattle branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows' backsides. The barren country around Toussaint is too vast for the town's small police force, and so, when needed, this hard-nosed hybrid...

Sherriff Gabriel Du Pre investigates the shooting deaths of seven defecting members of a recently relocated California cult. Du Pre may well be the most unusual character in mystery fiction: He s illiterate, smokes too much, is never without his flask, gets pulled over when he s not driving 30 miles over the speed limit (local law enforcement worry he s sick), and is by far the sharpest knife in the drawer. Desperate ranchers, authentic Western...

When Larry Messmer decides to auction off the cattle from his family ranch in the Wolf Mountains, old family secrets come to light. Then a woman is found dead in her car in Wyoming. Clues point to Larry Messmer and Gabriel Du Pré reluctantly agrees to keep an eye on him for the FBI.

"When a hunted military whistleblower and his family need someplace to hide and someone to trust, Toussaint, Montana, is the place, and Gabriel Du Pre the man. The Metis Indian former cattle inspector and sometimes deputy is happy to offer protection, even though he's already got his hands full with an ailing granddaughter, a meddling medicine man, and a Kazakh eagle hunter prowling the hills above town. As a guard at a Kabul prison, Hoyt Poe witnessed...

When Gabriel Du Pré investigates the brutal death of an old woman and encounters two teenagers skulking about at the scene of the crime, Gabriel must race to catch a killer who has a penchant for fire.

When Gabriel Du Pré goes looking his aunt's missing husband, the investigation leads to a body instead and to an underworld of illegal brush races involving traveling horsemen.

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 West.

A serial killer is stalking the high plains of Montana, and Du Pré just might be the only man who can stop him Gabriel Du Pré does not want to read the newspaper article. A fifth body has been found-another girl raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wasteland to be devoured by coyotes-and opening the paper will draw him into the hunt for her killer. But Du Pré, the cattle inspector and occasional deputy, has already been drafted. Minutes later,...

Yellowstone Kelly wasn't always a legend, but cast into the wilderness of the uncharted West, he finds he's a man with a talent for survival. Before Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly was an unexpected hero of the Old West, he was a young greenhorn, cast out of the big city and onto the frontier. This sequel to Yellowstone Kelly: Gentleman and Scout begins at the deathbed of Buffalo Bill Cody, where Yellowstone plays cards and reminisces with the legendary...