Coyote Wind (Montana Mystery Series, Book #1) by Peter Bowen
Coyote Wind (Montana Mystery Series, Book #1) by Peter Bowen
Officially, Gabriel Du Pre is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure 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 Indian and Frenchman lends a hand. When the sheriff offers gas money to investigate newly discovered plane wreckage in the desert, Du Pre quickly finds himself embroiled in a mystery stretching back a generation.
For three decades the crashed plane has sat in the sun as the bodies inside rotted away to their bones. Two skeletons are whole, but nothing remains of another except its hand and skull -- and the bullet that ended the man's life. The crime was hidden long ago, but in the Montana badlands, nothing stays buried forever.
OPEN ROAD, SOFTCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 2012.
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