Commandant Michel de Palma, aka The Baron, is drawn into the dark heart of Provence when a mutilated body is found.

Xavier-Marie Bonnot has a PhD in History and Sociology, and two Masters degrees in History and French Literature. The Beast of the Camargue is the second of the De Palma investigations, following The First Fingerprint. The Beast of the Camargue won the 2004 Roman Policier Award. Ian Monk is the award-winning translator of the Daniel Pennac Belleville Quintet and a member of Oulipo.

'Set in the vast, mysterious spaces of the Camargue, where a man can stand and 'observe hordes of creatures that were unknown to him' ... this is a sophisticated mystery and a character study of the detective' Times Literary Supplement. 'The marshes are crawling with life - and with fear... This is a sophisticated mystery' Literary Review. 'Cut from the same cloth as Ian Rankin's John Rebus and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch' Jeff Glorfeld, Melbourne Age.