Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
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]).
In France, Germany, and Italy, historian and archaeologist Fred Vargas is a best-selling author. She has written eight novels featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and has won the International Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association three times in the previous five years.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780743284028 |
| ISBN 10 | 074328402X |
| Title | Seeking Whom He May Devour |
| Author | Fred Vargas |
| Series | Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon And Schuster |
| Year published | 2006-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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