A story about the most famous werewolf investigation in history, in Germany during the Reformation, when Catholics and Protestants are at each others' throats. A cold investigator must find who--or what--the killer is, while the whole country goes to hell all around him.
The Saxon Tales by Bernard Cornwell
Eaters of the Dead (13th Warrior) by Michael Crichton
Silence by Shusaku Endo