Elizabeth Ironside: A Good Death [2000] paperback

Theo Cazalle has come back from the dead: in reality, from a 'good war' spent fighting with the Free French against the Vichy regime. Unannounced, he arrives at the farm of Bonnemort, eager for a reunion with his wife. And discovers, instead, that his wife has been denounced as a collaborator, the lover of an SS officer. The same officer who was found naked, his throat cut, in front of Colonel Cazalle's house. But Cazalle is a civilized man: he decides to seek the truth about the death of the German, the humiliation of his wife, the devastation of his tiny rural community. Was Ariane Cazalle a traitor - or the bravest of heroines As Theo Cazalle picks his way through contradictory stories of how their victims were betrayed to the Germans, he comes ever closer to the truth about the dead man.