The highly anticipated follow-up to Leonie Swann’s breakout offbeat hit Three Bags Full, this ovine mystery follows a flock of sheep as they try to solve yet another murder.
With one solved mystery under their wooly belts, the time has come for the sheep of Glennkill to explore Europe. Together with their new shepherdess, Rebecca, they move into their winter quarters in the shadow of a French castle. But their new home is far from idyllic. Deer are dying an unnatural death in the forest. The goats from the neighboring pasture have a theory: a werewolf. Could that be real, or just a fantasy?
But it soon becomes clear that even fantasies can be fatal, when the werewolf strikes a human. The sheep follow the werewolf’s trail and try to save themselves and their shepherdess with sheep logic, courage, and concentrated food.
Praise for Three Bags Full
“An original and clever mystery, with a flock of endearingly woolly detectives. I may never eat lamb chops again.” —Carl Hiaasen
“Sheep make great detectives. I loved this book.” —Robert B. Parker “Refreshingly, joyously different.” —Sunday Telegraph
“Moments of High Comedy come thick and fast. . . . This entertaining, lighthearted mystery is told from a refreshingly novel perspective.” —Daily Mail
“This sheepy society—sometimes touchingly naïve, sometimes surprisingly astute—has an inexhaustible, quirky charm.” —Salon
“Swann has written a surprisingly satisfying murder mystery that will appeal to PETA members and diehard crime novel fans.” —Post and Courier
“Genuinely odd and affecting . . . The best sheep detective novel you’ll read all year.” —The Guardian
“It’s rather as if Agatha Christie had rewritten The Wind in the Willows, and I ended by loving it.” —The Independent
Leonie Swann grew up near Munich and earned degrees in philosophy, communications, and psychology from Munich University and the Munich School of Philosophy. Her debut novel, Three Bags Full, was published in 2005 and became an instant hit, leading the German bestseller charts for months. It has since been translated into twenty-six languages and won the prestigious Glauser Prize for crime fiction in the debut category, as well as the PETA Award. She has now published six books and lives and works in the English countryside near Cambridge.
The highly anticipated follow-up to Leonie Swann’s breakout offbeat hit Three Bags Full, this ovine mystery follows a flock of sheep as they try to solve yet another murder.
With one solved mystery under their wooly belts, the time has come for the sheep of Glennkill to explore Europe. Together with their new shepherdess, Rebecca, they move into their winter quarters in the shadow of a French castle. But their new home is far from idyllic. Deer are dying an unnatural death in the forest. The goats from the neighboring pasture have a theory: a werewolf. Could that be real, or just a fantasy?
But it soon becomes clear that even fantasies can be fatal, when the werewolf strikes a human. The sheep follow the werewolf’s trail and try to save themselves and their shepherdess with sheep logic, courage, and concentrated food.
Reviews
Praise for Three Bags Full
“An original and clever mystery, with a flock of endearingly woolly detectives. I may never eat lamb chops again.” —Carl Hiaasen
“Sheep make great detectives. I loved this book.” —Robert B. Parker “Refreshingly, joyously different.” —Sunday Telegraph
“Moments of High Comedy come thick and fast. . . . This entertaining, lighthearted mystery is told from a refreshingly novel perspective.” —Daily Mail
“This sheepy society—sometimes touchingly naïve, sometimes surprisingly astute—has an inexhaustible, quirky charm.” —Salon
“Swann has written a surprisingly satisfying murder mystery that will appeal to PETA members and diehard crime novel fans.” —Post and Courier
“Genuinely odd and affecting . . . The best sheep detective novel you’ll read all year.” —The Guardian
“It’s rather as if Agatha Christie had rewritten The Wind in the Willows, and I ended by loving it.” —The Independent
Author
Leonie Swann grew up near Munich and earned degrees in philosophy, communications, and psychology from Munich University and the Munich School of Philosophy. Her debut novel, Three Bags Full, was published in 2005 and became an instant hit, leading the German bestseller charts for months. It has since been translated into twenty-six languages and won the prestigious Glauser Prize for crime fiction in the debut category, as well as the PETA Award. She has now published six books and lives and works in the English countryside near Cambridge.
