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    <body><![CDATA[Dull dull dull mystery about a female film editor/plumber and two local sheep farmers/eccentrics pursuing a murderous “werewolf” across the French countryside. The werewolf’s on foot, and the three of them are in a rickety old truck repurposed from transporting sheep, so the chase is about as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48486112">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really well done, and hilarious. Or at least I thought it was. My full review is here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.novelish.com/reviews/seeking-whom-he-may-devour/" title="http://www.novelish.com/reviews/seeking-whom-he-may-devour/">http://www.novelish.com/reviews/seeking-...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is between 2 &amp; 3 stars for me. The first half was too much about sheep &amp; really dull.  I enjoyed The Chalk Circle Man because of the characters &amp; then in this one it was taking too long for Adamsberg to get involved &amp; there was no Danglard. Once the actual search for the murderer began though, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77394670">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of 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).<br/><br/>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 &#8212; well known for his peculiar investigation methods &#8212; to help. Thanks to his extraordinary intuition, Adamsberg unearths an astonishing truth, one that the villagers are going to find hard to believe.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the foothills of the Alps sheep are being slaughtered, apparently by an enormous wolf. The story attracts national interest, including that of Adamsberg. Another thing that catches Adamsberg's interest is that he thinks he sees a previous girlfriend, Camille, on the news coverage of the story.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38754438">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of 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).<br/><br/>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 &#8212; well known for his peculiar investigation methods &#8212; to help. Thanks to his extraordinary intuition, Adamsberg unearths an astonishing truth, one that the villagers are going to find hard to believe.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Trade Paperback edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just started this. I haven't read a book in French in a couple years--not since Japrisot's <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Un long dimanche de fiançailles" title="Un long dimanche de fiançailles">Un long dimanche de fiançailles</a></em>. Possible plus: this is a high school (&quot;collège&quot;) edition, with reading questions after each section (will help me stay on track!) and definitions of the harder word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19896318">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of 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).<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Trade Paperback edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vargas has got to be the most distinctive contemporary crime writer in France. Her rules are simple: place and character are everything. Inspector Adamsberg is a holy fool, a resolutely irrational detective whose intuitions triumph where cold logic fails. Backed up by a host of secondary characters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60198859">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Seeking Whom He May Devour]]>
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    <![CDATA[Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of 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).<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Trade Paperback edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely adore Fred Vargas! Her Adamsberg books are the best. I don't know how she comes up with these characters. I won't say I could literally smell the truck (only because I don't actually know the scent of sheep), but when I read about Camille's reluctance to let her bare foot touch the filt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22170325">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Le loup-garou est de retour. Sa présence est signalée dans le sud de la France où il aurait égorgé de nombreuses brebis. Suzanne met en cause Massart, un étrange voisin coupable d'avoir, il y a quelques années, recueilli et élevé un loup abandonné. Peu après, la vieille éleveuse est retrouvée déchiquetée. Son fils adoptif, un Africain, et son berger veulent la venger ; ils sollicitent Camille, une jeune parisienne établie dans le secteur, pour conduire une bétaillère dans laquelle l'insolite trio se lance à la poursuite du présumé coupable. <p>En s'inspirant du mythe ancien du loup-garou, Fred Vargas joue avec un thème cher au roman policier : le tueur en série. Road movie picaresque, <em>L'Homme à l'envers</em> offre une galerie de portraits inimitables, notamment la jeune Camille, dont le livre de chevet est le catalogue de l'outillage professionnel. À l'élégance de son écriture, Vargas ajoute sa spécialité : des dialogues au cordeau ponctués d'aphorismes dignes des <em>Brèves de comptoir</em>. Elle alterne ainsi les moments graves avec des épisodes d'une intense drôlerie. <em>L'Homme à l'envers</em> a été salué par le prix Mystère de la critique. <em>--Christophe Dupuis</em> </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Le loup-garou est de retour. Sa présence est signalée dans le sud de la France où il aurait égorgé de nombreuses brebis. Suzanne met en cause Massart, un étrange voisin coupable d'avoir, il y a quelques années, recueilli et élevé un loup abandonné. Peu après, la vieille éleveuse est retrouvée déchiquetée. Son fils adoptif, un Africain, et son berger veulent la venger ; ils sollicitent Camille, une jeune parisienne établie dans le secteur, pour conduire une bétaillère dans laquelle l'insolite trio se lance à la poursuite du présumé coupable. <p>En s'inspirant du mythe ancien du loup-garou, Fred Vargas joue avec un thème cher au roman policier : le tueur en série. Road movie picaresque, <em>L'Homme à l'envers</em> offre une galerie de portraits inimitables, notamment la jeune Camille, dont le livre de chevet est le catalogue de l'outillage professionnel. À l'élégance de son écriture, Vargas ajoute sa spécialité : des dialogues au cordeau ponctués d'aphorismes dignes des <em>Brèves de comptoir</em>. Elle alterne ainsi les moments graves avec des épisodes d'une intense drôlerie. <em>L'Homme à l'envers</em> a été salué par le prix Mystère de la critique. <em>--Christophe Dupuis</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[J’adore et je raffole du style sec et viril de Fred Vargas, un vrai régal linguistique ! Des personnages toujours hauts en couleurs, un Adamsberg fidèle à lui-même, une intrigue bien menée. Le flegmatique commissaire n’entre vraiment dans l’histoire qu’à la seconde moitié du livre, et...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17862349">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of 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).<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Trade Paperback edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've really come to enjoy the Vargas' books--they are intelligent, a bit tricky, and full of unusual and slightly off-kilter characters. The settings are atmospheric without being too studied--altogether enjoyable!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of 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).<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Trade Paperback edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ohh, I love Fred Vargas - I'm not really a big fan of these kinds of books but I love her characters and really weird plots. These are translated from French and they are just as good in English as they are in French. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second I've read by Vargas and I enjoyed it as much as the first I read. These are not your traditional murder mystery in many ways, but they are in other ways really good classic mysteries, where you have an unconventional but extremely effective police inspector whose private life is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36759348">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of 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).<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Trade Paperback edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the story line of this book but Vargas tended to drone on a little long about trivial things.  I would never have finished the book if I hadn't wanted so bad to know WHO and WHAT the bad guy really was]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nous revoilà plongé dans la fameuse légende du loup du Gévaudan! En dehors de l'interprétation propre à l'auteur, j'ai aimé la galerie de portraits et les dialogues plein d'humour décalés.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my least favourite Vargas book yet...it just never seemed to get exciting enough for me. Several of the same characters from Vargas' other books, though i think i somehow read them in the wrong order as  Camille and Adamsberg are just getting together again for the second time. I'll keep re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44846573">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This has established Vargas as a new favourite of mine. Love the weaving of historical material into her novels. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Vargas does it again, a great, funny read, with Adamsberg is his rumpled, attractive self, daydreaming, and searching for the content of his intuitive flashes which solve the murder.  A little contrived plot of a monster wolf killing sheep and then, oops, a few men and a woman.  But it is nice to ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22924855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A new French mystery writer.  Fred Vargas is a woman.  A central character is a strong silent Canadian and the murderer may be a werewolf.  Not your usual story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Fred Vargas! The best thing to read when you're stuck inside with a head cold and the world's looking bleak because it's the school hols and you meant to do so much work but you can't even think of your own novel because your head has turned into a mucous factory. Love Fred Vargas!]]></body>
    
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