SYNOPSIS

While the members of the Franconia homicide squad are celebrating the inauguration of Felix Voss’ new apartment with some alcohol, elsewhere in Nuremberg a brother and sister are found dead – brother and sister, both in their late 50s, who came to Germany from Libya many years ago and are fully integrated. They were brutally beaten to death. Their foster son, a universally adored and highly talented student, has disappeared since the gruesome crime. Apparently he had been in the victims’ house at the time of the crime. Was he a witness? Perpetrator? Why has he disappeared? The police search intensively for clues at the crime scene and in the lives of the two victims and their foster son, accompanied by great sympathy and outrage from the public. Two days later, a colleague of the Nuremberg police dies unexpectedly during a car ride due to a fatal drug interaction. He leaves behind his wife and two children. For Paula Ringelhahn, this news is a catastrophe. The dead Frank Leitner was a very close friend. Shortly before the double murder, he had tried to reach her. But Paula had not called back. A clue found at the crime scene brings together the murder of the two siblings and the dead colleague. What did Frank Leitner have to do with the gruesome crime? Why did he drive to his death shortly afterwards? A case that takes Paula Ringelhahn to her limits, and which she would not be able to handle without her colleague Voss.