Coyote Wind and Specimen Song - Gabriel Du Pre, Bk 1, Bk 2
Author: Peter Bowen

The First Two Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pre. — Featuring Montanan cattle-brand inspector and occasional sleuth Gabriel Du Pré, Peter Bowen's spare and lyrical mysteries have always received the critics' highest praise. Now, the first two mysteries in the series, Coyote Wind and ...  more »trong>Specimen Song, are brought together in one volume.  

* Coyote Wind - a cowboy has found the wreck of the plane that had been missing for 30 years. Gabriel Du Pre, cattle-brand inspector who doubles as a deputy, sees that one of the sun-bleached skulls, the one with the bullet hole, doesn't belong. He wants to avoid the matter, but a rich man's demons, another murder and Du Pre's own past keep pulling him back--to the truth.  

* Specimen Song-  barroom fiddler and Metis Indian Gabriel Du Pre 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.  « less