Seeking Whom He May Devour

The second book by a major international mystery writer: this exciting and careful whodunit is well-executed, page turning crime fiction (Publishers Weekly).

A small mountain community in the French Alps is roused to terror when they awaken each morning to find yet another of their sheep with its throat torn out. One of the villagers thinks it might be a werewolf, and when she's found killed in the same manner, people begin to wonder if she might have been right. Suspicion falls on Massart, a loner living on the edge of town.

The murdered woman's adopted son, one of her shepherds, and her new friend Camille decide to pursue Massart, who has conveniently disappeared. Their ineptness for the task soon becomes painfully obvious, and they summon Commissaire Adamsberg from the city to bring his exceptional powers of intuition to bear on layer upon layer of buried hatred and secrets.

France's queen of crime writing pits the maverick genius of Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg against ancient, primal fears in a novel that establishes Vargas as one of the most unusual voices in European crime fiction (The Sunday Times London]).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 11/07/2006
ISBN: 9780743284028
Pages: 289
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.42w x 0.78d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2006 pg. 56
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2006 pg. 880
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2006 pg. 39
Entertainment Weekly 11/10/2006 pg. 86
Booklist 11/01/2006 pg. 33
Library Journal 12/01/2006 pg. 99