
Specimen Song
A Gabriel Du Pre Mystery, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Jim Meskimen
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By:
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Peter Bowen
A serial killer follows Du Pré from Washington, DC, back to Montana
A lost and frightened horse plods down the National Mall, startling the crowd. When Gabriel Du Pré spots the confused animal, the connection is immediate, for neither of these creatures belongs in the sweltering heat of a DC summer. Du Pré, a Métis Indian from the wilds of Montana, calms the horse and leads it to the nearest policeman. Du Pré is in Washington to play his people’s music for a Smithsonian festival, but after leading the horse to safety, he encounters a murder instead.
The dead woman is Cree Indian, come down from Canada to sing in the festival. Du Pré tries to put her death out of his mind and returns to Montana, but more killings follow: each time with a primitive weapon, each time foretold by a local shaman. As the body count rises and the killer closes on Du Pré, the lawman vows to never again make the mistake of leaving Montana.
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Hit this one out of the park
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Meskimen inhabits Dupré, and Bowen's whole world
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This book starts out in Washington, DC, where Gabriel Du Pré has come to perform his fiddling music which emerges from his Indian/French heritage. He is anxious to return to Montana where he feels at home on the land, in his comfortable routines, but he has not even left yet when the first murder occurs. The rest of the story weaves in interesting Indian lore, showing the marvelously simple connections to what he feels makes his life worth living.
BUT WARNING to reader: read previous book first, unless you don't mind that the author has included one line of explanation about Du Pré's past that is a complete spoiler for the first mystery. I know that authors often do this, by way of letting a new reader know what has occurred in the past. But if you happen to read one out of order, it can be very discouraging to realize that you probably won't feel like reading the one you missed.
Both books are good, extremely interesting with the lore of the west, the French/Indian heritage and the wonderful characters that people these stories. the narration is very good in both.
Good, but read after the first book!
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Is this Unabridged?
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Still loving the series
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story decent, narration lackluster
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Really like this series, except with this narrator
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What a specimen
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With all of this talk about the narrator said the story is still a good one and one, the blending of Gabriel's culture, native, french, rural west is something I enjoyed a great deal, it is just that with this narrator it sucked a lot of the fun out of the audio version.
Great story wrong narrator
recommended, with hope that the original narrator is brought back.
Great story, wrong narrator
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Mr. Meskimen reads the book adequately, but he does not have the acting ability or the vocal range to bring the characters alive.
Du Pre' is a Montana brand inspector that drives too fast, drinks too much, dances when he can, and fiddles to the happy crowds in Toussaint's lone bar, as well as at other gatherings. He lives in sin with the lovely Madeline, and they both have kids and grandkids. In the case of Du Pre', it's a passle of grandkids, as one of his two daughters decided to make up for her mother's early death by giving her papa a big family to love. The other daughter is a genius, off doing big things.
I tell you these things because you might not learn all of them in this book, and it is important that you know that Du Pre' takes no crap from anybody. Him, he's got good friends, and sometimes he figures things out, just because something doesn't look right. Meanwhile he is proud grandpapa and premier folk fiddler.
Him, he agrees to go to that Washington, D. C., and play his fiddle at a Smithsonian folk music festival, The crowds bother him some, but he enjoys the other musicians, and then the runaway horse comes, and he goes to get it. Takes the horse back, him, and finds a dead person.
I cannot reproduce Peter Bowen's well-written dialect, but I have talked to people, talk like this, and I know this kind of people. Good people. Good author.
You need to start with the first book in the series so that you know more about Du Pre' and the people who live in Montana ranch country. There are several other books in audio form as well, but you'll be hooked by the skills of Christopher Lane in "Coyote Wind," book one of the series. Then listen to this one. Big difference, this. Listen to the others that are already available, and wait anxiously for the rest of them, because even an average reader is better than no reader at all. (and yes, I did buy the kindle version of all of the books that did not come out in audio form until just this year).
Open your mind and dress warm, Montana pretty cold place most the time, but worth the trip. Take your dancin' boots and don't bump into them other people enjoying themselves.
The difference between reading & performing
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