Peter Bowen ist bekannt für seine Kriminalromane, die im modernen amerikanischen Westen angesiedelt sind. Inspiriert von den Geschichten alter Cowboys, denen er in seiner Jugend lauschte, schafft Bowen Werke, die die Atmosphäre des Wilden Westens einfangen. Seine Hauptfigur, Gabriel Du Pré, ein Strafverfolger gemischter Abstammung, gerät in eine Vielzahl von Fällen, von kaltblütigen Morden bis zur Jagd nach seltenen Fossilien. Bowen verbindet meisterhaft spannende Kriminalhandlungen mit der einzigartigen Landschaft und dem rauen Charme des Westens.
As gruesomely dismembered corpses of young women are discovered one after another in his small Montana ranching town, Gabriel Du Pre angrily begins the hunt for a murderer and finds that he must try to think like the serial killer in order to catch him.
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