The Flanders Sky — Nicolas Freeling

The Berlin Wall is falling. Eastern Europe is in turmoil. Amid the tumult, Inspector Henri Castang has been exiled to a bureaucratic post in Bruxelles, a city in the eye of the storm. But the forces of violence are at work even here. When a colleague's wife is suddenly murdered, Castang sets out to prove his proper English friend's innocence, and scrutinizes the lives being lived around him. In so doing he uncovers a shocking tangle of intrigue and guilt in a world where Castang is not the only exile--and the killer is not the only guilty party...