Belgian Blues are an important breed of cattle, they are also what you suffer when your carefully planned holiday through the Belgian countryside goes awry - and the vacation of Silvio Belloni and his girlfriend totally falls apart when he discovers a corpse in an otherwise idyllic village. A village that he soon discovers hides many dark secrets. Chief Inspector Silvio Belloni of the Swiss police, (you may remember him from the novel Missing Genes), finds himself pressganged into helping the local authorities and is quickly drawn into a web of sophisticated crime, art theft and espionage - as the case twists, turns and progresses - so does the body count