TV chef Max Loderer, whose autobiography Wendelin Winter's daughter Alexandra, which moved back home, was to ghostwrite, is fatally stabbed in his kitchen, shortly after missing dishwasher Amadu was murdered in his wretched apartment, being a cocaine courier. Wendelin sleuths, even in Santa suit, along with Alex and her cop boyfriend, detective commissioner Donald Becker. Max had left his wife and restaurant service chief Christiane Loderer for his ambitious younger TV sidekick and PR agent Dana Stamm but had doubts, paparazzo Bernhard Hase blackmailed him with pictures. Italian restaurateur Atillio Parilla publicly threatened recipe-thief Max. .
—KGF Vissers