Sophie Haas, an aspiring criminal investigator from Cologne, is relegated to a very small police outpost in the Eifel mountains.
Commissioner Sophie Haas is transferred from Cologne to the countryside to take up the role of head of inspection. The initial shock from local conditions is considerable. And not just on her side. Especially when he decides to clear up old cases...
Watch Now:iTunesOn Father's Day, of all days, a corpse is discovered in Hengasch – and it looks like a natural death. Old Reuter had a heart condition, so you can suffer a heart attack and fall into the stream. But why does he wear a pearl necklace? Sophie finds this very unusual and has him taken to the forensic medicine. And lo and behold, her gut feeling didn't cheat her. Old Reuter was poisoned with an overdose of Rohypnol. This time there are a lot of suspects, because Reuter not only had a bad character, but also a lively sex drive – in other words, he was a spanner. And Sophie finds out that he did something much worse a long time ago, something that has fatal consequences to this day. Source: www.daserste.de
Watch Now:AmazonSophie is surprised – and Bärbel explains to her: The reason why Heike and Dietmar have been so distracted lately is the giftedness of their son Kevin. And since he has problems with the "normal" school thanks to his oversized IQ, he is supposed to move into the elite boarding school Lobberich, which is very close to Hengash. Even before Kevin is accepted there as a scholarship holder, his future teacher Dr. Kroy stupidly drops dead: heart attack – at least says Dr. Bechermann, the gynecologist of the district, who is all too often active in the emergency service. However, the autopsy reveals that it is not a natural death, because Kroy's teaching staff contains a huge amount of cocaine, which was apparently not taken consciously. So murder after all. Since Kroy enjoyed great unpopularity, there are also plenty of students and colleagues who could have been trusted with the deed.
Sophie feels increasingly lonely in Hengasch and seriously considers retiring from the police service and returning to Cologne. However, she is somewhat distracted from her gloomy thoughts by another murder case: DIY store owner Pfaff is shot dead while Nordic walking in front of his wife and an employee. Pfaff ran his hardware store with an iron fist, and some recent incidents indicate that he had enemies – but is the perpetrator really to be found in the wider environment? Because the best motives for the crime actually have the people who were present at the murder. But how could they have done it?
The famous piano virtuoso Roman Lasmo is one of the few prominent inhabitants of Hengasch, but he has never been seen in the village. That changes when his wife asks the police to check on her husband, which Sophie and her colleagues promptly do. As they discover, someone has robbed Lasmo of his little finger, and is now blackmailing him. Of course, a life with nine fingers has a different value for a pianist than for a tax official, and so Sophie, Dietmar and Bärbel do everything they can to find the finger in time and put the culprit behind bars.
Watch Now:AmazonFor a change, it's not just any violent offender, but veterinarian Kauth who puts a gun to Sophie's chest: He wants to turn their affair into a tangible relationship, yes, even move in with her. Before Sophie decides, she first solves the mystery of the seriously injured electrician Poppelrath, who lies in the garden of the housewife Kafka with an inexplicable head injury and a heart attack. Is the blame for this, as many in the village think, really the newly arrived man from East Germany, who – at least in the eyes of the Hengasch people – behaves highly suspiciously? Or does the victim's pathologically jealous wife have a hand in it? And is there a crime at all?
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