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 is also killed, people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers.

"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"--Publisher website (April 2007).