The Beast of the Camargue

For centuries the ceremonial order of the Knights of the Tarasque have met to bear the effigy of a mythical beast through the Provencal town of Taracson. But one summer's night the ceremony is broken by a gruesome discovery: a mutilated body found at the feet of the effigy, apparently torn apart by enormous teeth and claws. Can the monster of legend be more than just myth?

The case draws an unwilling Michel de Palma, of the Marseille murder squad, into the dark heart of a Provence where myt...