The Smell of God

When Commissioner Carpentier receives an invitation to a class reunion, thirty years after graduating from Sint-Krispijn, his college years come back like a sour belch. His mood does not improve when a lust murderer first kills the wife of a schoolmate and then his own neighbor in a gruesome manner. For Chief Inspector Dewit, it is a dream opportunity to put the profiling course he took at the FBI into practice, but the investigation into the double sex murder is not progressing. It even seems as if Carpentier is deliberately postponing the case. The young Chief Inspector becomes suspicious: the public prosecutor turns out to be a prominent member of Opus Dei and a number of former students of Sint-Krispijn are also Catholic fundamentalists. Dewit decides to investigate his boss's dark past.
John Carpentier himself constantly remembers unsavory details from the time when not murder, but sex was the greatest sin. Meanwhile, his wife, Linda Carpentier, feels pursued by a stranger with a striking perfume. Because her husband consistently attributes her fears to the menopause, she decides not to inform him.