Description:ISBN 0099461560 / Author: Fred Vargas / Genre: Fiction / Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of ... more

Seeking Whom He May Devour - Fred Vargas ... their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his beardlessness (according to popular legend, werewolves have no hair on their bodies because they are inside the body). Soliman, the victim's adopted son; Le Veilleur, a lonely sheperd and Camille, a lovely girl from the city, decide to pursue Massart and their hunt leads them into the Alps, but their incompetence is undisguisable and they decide to summon Commissaire Adamsberg — well known for his peculiar investigation methods — to help. Thanks to his extraordinary intuition, Adamsberg unearths an astonishing truth, one that the villagers are going to find hard to believe.

Newest Review: ... pursue him. Despite their best efforts, they seem doomed to failure. Camille, swallowing her pride, calls in Commissaire ... more

 ... Adamsberg, her former lover, who conveniently needs to leave Paris to escape someone. With his help, can they find out the truth? The characters The three main characters, Soliman, Camille and Watchee, are an odd bunch. Soliman, the only black man in the vicinity, was abandoned in the church porch by his mother. Adopted by Suzanne, the only villager who could bear to pick him up, he grew up with French ways, yet was encouraged by Suzanne to find out as much as he could about his African heritage. This would have been a di...more