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Johnstone thinks Suzanne was close to the truth, but Massart is not a supernatural creature, but has trained a wolf to do his killings. Suzanne accuses hermit-like Monsieur Massart of being a werewolf, but she dies when the giant beast attacks her. Canadian Lawrence Johnstone works with wolves at the Mercantour National Park he investigates the sheep killings and knows Suzanne through his live-in lover Camille. At Les Ecart five sheep belonging to Suzanne Rosselin are killed and three others badly wounded. They believe this beast will turn to devouring humans soon.

The locals insist it is the brutal work of a feral pack of wolves led by a gigantic beast like none ever seen before. In the Southern Alps-Maritimes section of France, four sheep are killed at Ventebrune nine at Pierrefort.

The solution of the mystery is clever and unexpected, but the true charm of this book is the eccentric road trip which brings together four vivid and unique personalities: Soliman creates fables to explain reality, Camille reads The A to Z of Tools for Trade and Craft for relaxation, Watchee lives and breathes sheep, and Adamsberg floats in a cloud of intuition, waiting for the facts to settle into an understandable pattern. When the trio realize they are in over their heads, Camille contacts her old friend Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg for assistance. Soliman, the woman's young adopted son, Watchee, her ancient head shepherd, and Camille, a young musician recruited to drive the sheep lorry, head out in pursuit of a loner who disappears immediately after the murder. The villagers at first believe a rogue wolf is responsible for some sheep savagings, but when a woman is killed in the same manner, rumors of a werewolf begin to circulate. Seeking Whom He May Devour (French 1999, English 2004) is set in the French Alps. If you cut them open, you'd find their wolf hair under the skin. In the hinterlands of France, werewolves are thought to be hairless in their human form. The much better French title was L'Homme à l'envers, which I think means Inside-out Man. Don't be put off by the rather pretentious title. No review can possibly do justice to the bizarre happenings and quirky characters in this story. The guy is hot - a formidable rival for the short, unglamorous Adamsberg. To add to the confusion, Camille is having an affair with a tall blond muscular Canadian, a specialist in grizzly bears. Also on board are Watchee, an ancient shepherd who never sleeps, and a young black man whose adopted mother was killed by the man-wolf. She's a wonderful combination of the eternal feminine and a masculine mind obsessed with tools. Through a convoluted train of events, Adamsberg joins a motley crew in a lorry stinking of sheep to hunt down the big bad wolf, now assumed to have a human master (a surly local who has mysteriously disappeared). Some superstitious locals believe it's the work of a werewolf, especially when the creature starts killing people. Camille seems to have settled in a remote area where sheep are being savaged by a wolf of abnormal size.

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So does the fact that he's spotted Camille, the runaway love of his life, in a TV news story. The fact that a crazy redhead is trying to assassinate him provides some motivation to leave Paris. How he gets lured out of Paris to the French Alps to join a manhunt for a werewolf is a complicated story. This book shows the inspector as dreamy and illogical as ever. After reading The Chalk Circle Man, I was hungry for another Chief Inspector Adamsberg mystery.