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- Murder rage.
- Archenemies.
- Only pre-teen Claudio observantly witnessed the deliberate hit and run that killed a PI. The 'murder weapon' car belonged to his gay boyfriend Michael Freitag, who has a tight alibi, and was left at the court house. The team works out the victim was hired by judge Dr. Karsten Lehmann, who seems to be blackmailed into messing up a murderer's trial, so they must discover and undo the cahoots' hold on the judge.
- Prosecutor Reuther calmly confiscates he handgun brandished by his elderly neighbor Elisabeth 'Betty' von Bensing when she reports a break-in for which there is nor proof, but next morning she's found murdered by insulin overdose. First suspect is veterinary student Roman Blau, a charming klutz whose enjoyable company she rewarded with free lodging in her lavish mansion, a privilege enjoyed much longer by the middle-aged Kowalski couple, her de-facto janitors, who expected to inherit the home. Daughter Susanne is caught breaking the seals to search in vain for mother's gold coins, meant as 'funeral fund'.
- Last meal.
- State prosecutor Bernd Reuther accepts teaching a university course. Law student Clara Rheinsfeldt surprises him, offering a champagne bottle at his home and possibly herself, promising to bring something to his office, but is savagely stabbed to death in her room. Her parents ignored her double life as prostitute. Eternal student Timo Schwarz stalked her, obsessed but only over-protective, filming all her visitors. Thus the team identifies her colleague/pimp Alice Kromme, who is hot just before Bern can talk to her. Evidence points out a blackmailed lawyer-client, who on trial brilliantly turns the tables on 'perv' Reuther, yet gives in suspiciously easily when facing new evidence.
- A second life.
- After a youth center concert, organizing Wiesbaden youth services employee Viktor Treplik's corpse is found drowned in a pool, skull smashed, with older punch wounds and heavily drugged with cocaine & cheap XTC. A possible motive comes from his last cast, protective custody for small dealer Karl and 'ex'-junkie Gerda Maschke's doting angelic pre-teen son Philipp and teen rebel daughter Ella. Viktor was suspiciously wealthy, according to Karl blackmailing for drugs, but also had debts with night club owner and bookie Hermann Bolt, who denies only illegal prostitution. Bernd Reuther's team finds further links, also involving Viktor's colleagues.
- County court executioner Karl Stetten is found in his office, skull smashed with his perforator. *Reuther naturally thinks of debtors, whose estates he had to action, staring with ruffian Werner Mohr, who wrote threat letters and is about to be evicted by Stetter's apprentice Emil Kamp, whose negative assessment was never turned into with supervising judge Falk, whom Bernd soon realizes was Stetten's inappropriate secret lover. Schubert looks into other debtors who felt wronged, focusing on near-bankrupt interior designer Theo Ibus who misappropriated project funds to pay for his wife Nicole's Boston surgery, but she kept stunning secrets form him too, crucially involving another above party.
- Astrologer Dominik Acampora was skull-smashed with a ritual chalice at home. Bernd Reuther's team questions his clients and colleagues, primarily last witness Tabea Thau, who worked for him exclusively as hypnotized medium. Acampora, a ruthless manipulator, was found by his separately raised half-brother Frank Märzbacher, who was hired as carpenter. His latest client were a pharmaceuticals-manager, and plant nursery owner Antonia Rumpf spent a fortune frequently consulting Acampora, which wrecked her marriage to non-believer Philip Rumpf, against whom she got a restraining order.
- The dead in the vineyard.
- Bernd Reuther holds a lecture on EU fiscal crime prosecution now his city hosts a legal convention, but at the start of his presentation the projector housing is found to contain the corpse of murdered junior state attorney Dagmar Stehl, who recently ended her affair with adulterous judge Kranzler. Shortly after is found murdered Rolf Tokeritz, whom Stehls recently failed to get convicted. Dagmar's impossible to please father Rainer Stehl is a prominent judge, her sister, Carla Stehl, his favorite, an attorney. Reuther's team resists major pressure to prove the cases link and root in dirty games.
- Bernd Reuther's team soon suspects wealthy crone Barbara Lott was strangled in her fine home, from which nothing seems stolen, as part of wave of 'grandchild fraud', whereby members of a gang presumably led by ex-con Martin Vogel pose as offspring to trick halfwit elderly into gifts or 'loans'. Lott repeatedly cashed various sums, accompanied by a girl, from a bank branch managed by Thomas Lange, who informed his friend, Barbara's daughter Hannah's husband, struggling optician Michael Boehme, who could hardly afford their inheritance being thrown away. The fake granddaughter is identified as Paula, fresh kid of small fry Peter Blass, and pressed to denounce the gang leader, but alibis and lucid Lott's peculiar bond with Paula make Bernd Reuther consider an alternative motive.
- Bank loan officer Fischer dies as pedestrian in an apparently intentional hit and run. Bernd Reuther duly tells commissioner Christian Schubert to abstain from the case as the car owner is his pub team mate Gerold Lehmann, who actually hid a rap sheet from him. Yet Schubert can't help 'informally' -on occasion even waving his badge- checking on Fischer's environment, even illegally questioning at the precinct girl friend Jessica Amling, who dumped him recently. Several people might have a motive due to failed credits. Reuther considers other angles when shortly after his doting younger brother Boris Fischer, whom he practically raised when orphaned, is attacked in the gym he runs, and may have been the intended victim, indeed is nearly pushed in front of a car from the bus stop. Trails cross at the pub as well as the gym.
- After performing jazz trumpet at the 'Sekt' (German bubbly) vintage presentation in the ancestral villa of his bride, winery heiress Amelie Rose, musician Louis Brenner makes a fatal fall from his inn host Dorfmann's balcony, pushed. Schubert and Klar look into Louis's 'colourful' addict past, yielding many enemies on tip of Amelie's parents Richard and Katharina Rose, who wanted a more dignified heir-in-law, having passed over her elder sister Charlotte. Goth vixen and petty criminal Michelle Reinelt keeps popping up, as turns out having blackmailed Richard.
- As wine dinner guest of Wiesbaden gastronome Bernhard Lohenfels and his wife, prosecutor Bernd Reuther witnesses his host's brutal murder by a clumsy robber, who misses valuable loot while insisting on the near-empty safe and needn't resort to such risky violence. He coaches his team to check up both on the easily identified robber and possible other motives for a set-up by the widow or other guests, one of whom is meanwhile kidnapped.
- Deadly takeover.
- A murderous story.
- Staatsanwalt Bernd Reuther must leave a trial to attend to Oliver Buchholz who sought church asylum and threatens with suicide from the spire to demand Reuther personally clears the suspicion that he shot his business consultancy partner Stefan Bakes in their office. Blind receptionist Meike Pfahl is the only witness of him alone leaving afterward, but could be tricked. An attempt on Meike Pfahl's life by car arouses more suspicions. The widow also has an inheritance and private motive, like recently fired technician Lutz Reimann, but Pfahl and the firm's attorney also hid personal and secrets.
- While state attorney Bernd Reuther holds a series of lectures on evidence gathering at the police academy, cadet Julia Junge claims to have been the victim of sudden rape before the slaying of fellow model student and study friend Felix Bordien.The team discredits her and third musketeer cadet Thorsten Schramm, who blackmailed inappropriate affair-caught director Tanja Schönfeld. Christian Schubert and Kerstin Klar investigate a young student's hit and run, which seems linked with the rape/murder and a hopelessly clumsy would be bank-robber.
- Stewardess Sabrina is found in the courtyard of a hotel. She either fell or was pushed from a roof terrace. The evening before in the bar, a new waiter was observed staring at the stewardess. Prosecutor Reuter remembers that he saw the two in court ten years ago. Then, she had accused him of molesting her in school. Did he take late revenge?
- Clean death.
- The bitch.
- Chinese jeweler Sun Yin Sum is found in his hotel with a fatal skull wound. he was about to buy the Schmandt family's nearby ancestral Rheingau wine estate for his son, final year student Jihn Sun. Schubert has mixed feelings about assistance from Belgian detective inspector Nora Vink, who expects another triad murder in the diamond trade, like in Anwerp where Sum came from. Ojuna, on the hotel security video, seems to fit their prostitute cover MO, but is actually part of John's reluctance to be married off. Reuther also finds skeletons in the Schmandt family's closet, including the possible murder of the father who died just before he planned to sell to the local mayor.
- Non-armored truck courier Andreas Gerster was fatally ran over with his own vehicle on a Wiesbaden parking lot, crawling desperately after a semi-crippling beating. When his Trans Europe colleague, whom boss Gerd Brugger disfavors systematically, Martin Rogge learns about the death, he denies their rivalry and makes a hasty run for it, with Schubert, whose interest in his cargo wasn't appreciated, in the open van. * Gerster's hardly grieving widow Helga may have a motive, being on depression-causing medication after an accident when he was driving and cheated on with the boss's pet assistant, Rosa Müller, who played colleagues against each-other with heartless greed. Their teen daughter Tina, who earned a meager income supplement part-time in the ailing firm for Helga, has her own bitter story.
- Slick, paroled ex-drug con Timo Licht's handsome corpse is found in Wiesbaden Park, stabbed repeatedly with an old, broken-off blade, perhaps by a strong and a weaker person. Instructor Sybille Wunderlich, who runs a quasi-retired coupe's fancy dance school, lies as if she didn't know that when hiring him without telling the respectable clientele. Bernd Reuther's team finds Timo systematically seduced gullible teen girl pupils, like jealous Alicia. He even managed as lover boy to lure some into Mirek Kranich's prostitution network, like Josephine Laudahn , whose wealthy father Dietrich Laudahn first resists any investigation trough firm and family lawyer Böttcher, then confesses against his criminal law assistant Simon Eisenbach's advice confesses the murder with a dagger from his antiques collection while Josephine goes missing and almost commits OD-suicide, but Reuther and Schubert duly doubt that and dig into a blackmail trail.
- A man fleeing into a forest tries to stop a car, but is deliberately ran over, fatally. Reuther and police detectives Klar and Fischer investigate the fancy residential neighborhood, which isn't very talkative. The victim had an affair with his hated neighbor's wife, who is missing. An older female corpse is dug up at the forest border. The heiress's fiance urgently needed her inheritance, and his mates practices illegal hunt, with the forester's complicity.
- Dance to death.
- Tax consultant Klaus Leopold is fatally skull-smashed with one of the expensive wine bottles he sampled with lover-client Alice Berger, linked with brothel baron Manfred Seiler. Klaus's client Simone Mehlbeck manages David Mehlbeck's wine shop, which sold him exclusives wines for over a million Euro as laundered investment, but all are forged. Detective Schubert may never return to duty after being shot as well as the man who shot him. Simone Mehlbeck admits a dilemma.
- Hack order.
- Fortunately children.
- After Sudanese state official Abdul Assad is sniper-murdered in Wiesbaden by an trackless pro, federal prosecution officer Gerald Törker, Klar's former police academy mate, and his boss Holger Westhofen claim the 'national security' case. After real estate fraud suspect Bruno Beck offers key information for a deal, Reuther's team gets back into the double case. It's about the suspicion that agricultural machines dealer Kai Middeldorf facilitated illegal arms deals. Beck dies in jail from his nut allergy. The fatal candy bar was given him by his and Kai's lawyer Silvia Kuberzig who ends up arrested, the memory stick evidence not found. Then Klar is kidnapped for her release. Schubert suspects an inside cahoot.
- Teenagers Hendrik Sauer, son of mayor Thea, and lover Sara Mueller, sneaking in to make out in Eibingener desolate ruined monastery cellar, find the incinerated remains of generally respected municipal treasurer Siegbert Lackner, who was strangulated days before. He never left on Paris holiday for a week. prime suspect is his stalker, Britta Grebert, whom the town reengaged after therapy and now commits a failed suicide. But she had a rival, councilor Gregor Stern's wife Evi. Bernd is promoted Judge, without postulating, succeeding to retiring Beil, but senses a cover-up and digs deeper into real estate interests and zoning fraud.
- Snake Pit.
- Martial arts champion Nicole Berg's skull was smashed with a heavy cup. She had debts and an affair with her coach The team also leans on homeless petty robber junkie Andy Bender as break-in witness. Neighbour Nadine Wolfs brother Patrick was coaching Reuther's superior Heinlein's troublesome teen son, hothead Tobias, at Nicole's club, and secretly also had a far more lucrative adulterous lover, Heinlein.
- Cold death.
- The team suspects a link between tA disappeared girl wanted for murder seems not to exist on paper.Mike Bertram is fatally shot, yet the only bidder not robbed of the mandatory cash advance, at a masked man's armed robbery during a house auction in Wiesbaden's court house. It's the first case for prosecutor Reuther's new deputy Tobias Blumenthal, promoted from financial crimes, son of an impossible to please attorney. The team investigates the Haber heirs selling the victim's dream-home, architect Fiedler who bid on it by proxy, and the security officer whose gun was used, yet Reuther comes up with a surprising other suspect.A farmer dies in his field when enjoying his daily bottle of beer. The coroner finds he has been poisoned with aconitum, a potent herbal poison. The police inquire with the village population. It appears the victim was with the one faction in the town council opposed to building wind generators in the vicinity.Bernd Reuther joins Christian Schubert and Kerstin Klar in the rural Taunus village where farmer's wife Monika Bender was fatally shot with the hunting rifle the family uses in the local shooting competition. The superstitious locals seem to believe in the curse of the 'Taunus witch'. The grumpy husband, farmer Johann, is in a wheelchair since a grave accident and claims to have seen or heard nothing, but was on bad terms with his neighbors. Adult but mentally immature son Andreas 'Andy' is too easily influenced to believe as witness and keeps chancing his story, being terrified he may again be placed in a handicapped home. His sister Brigitte Möllmann, who left the farm for her husband's firm being denied a switch to bio, returns temporarily to settle the affairs, and tried to hide weird financial transactions.Oberstaatsanwalt Bernd Reuther supervises the murder of a woman who gambled big to gain a fortune on her apartment block, the last piece for a huge Wiesbaden city center mall project directed by slick, discrete real estate tycoon Andreas Amlang and his even shadier Russian mega investor Boris Welednitzkow. Schubert first examines her tenant Tim Baumann, a young father who had to move out as the rent was increased excessively after 'energetic renovation'. Her dirty tricks were exposed in a local paper by a young journalist, who anonymously also runs a blog dealing with the real estate dealings. Reuther agrees to meet a old lawyer friend, Wolfgang Esbach, who notarized most deals, but he's murdered at home and his wife, whom adult son Moritz confides is a ruthless career bitch 'behind the throne', also his suspicious Russian contacts. The first murderer, a hired martial artist, was eliminated by a fearless pro hit-man, who escapes Schubert shooting. Reuther must thread carefully to tie everything together and outsmart top level connections, without getting shot.Driving alone at night, Enrico Marini is suddenly shot dead from a passing van. He recently got Sofie Schenk to dump her boyfriend for him, but shortly after that rival is also murdered. Both were involved in drug trade, apparently in locally rivaling gangs in an escalating crime war, for which drug detective Daniel Peters is joined to the investigation, who shocks Schubert by planting false evidence with a member of Carlo Fonti's established Italian mafia gang, including a troublesome cousin employed in the front barber shop. Also suspicious is the disputed Sofie's mother in debt, shipping entrepreneur Rebecca Schenk.Recently graduated Investment-Banker Iris Mayer is found with smashed skull, drugged and dumped afterward on the street, where a graffiti vandal bumps into the corpse. Student boyfriend Tobias Hendrich, conditionally condemned as small dealer and son of attorney Maximilian and now detective Alexander Diring's crucial narcotics informer, says she was stalked by colleague Stefan Groth, who was fired. Reuther also takes an interest in Tobias's too-perfect elder brother's fatal accident years ago.At all costs.While Bernd Reuther enjoys tycoon's widow Henriette Kern's lavish party, her younger fiance Rolf Bartz is founded fatally stabbed. *While grandson Alexander looks after her, son Stefan owns the murder weapon and vehemently opposed the happy couple's plan to sell the innovative medical equipment firm, his father's lifework. Henriette's daughter Pauline once was Bartz' lover. Next Alexander's reporter girl Anuschka dies in a suspicious bicycle accident, perhaps to prevent her rendering public the firm's dark secret. Reuther sets a bluff trap.Student Annika Haase died after a hit and run in a wine estate. Schubert und Klar first question her simpleton lover, college gardener Markus Braun, who threatened her in a phone call that night. Melina Deinert, who drove the car and maintained it was a sudden accident and she just panicked, was jealous, but also drugged. At the local university, wine student Melina had access to the toxic substances found in Annika, and has the expertise to produce and dose it from a plant grown by Markus, but so did others, including her chemistry professor Fisher, who lost his wife and daughter and remains cripple after a long coma due to a vandalism road crime Bernd looks into.Billing in blood.Teen tennis player Jana Ziegler was beaten to death in the same club shower where her father Volker beat to pulp her rapist, earning him years in prison. they bickered to evening before, at the welcome home party for his parole. Reuther finds that Jana, whom Schubert's successor Max Fischer instantly mistrusted, actually kept silent about her affair with the 'rapist', whose widow Monika Majewski knew and seeks revenge, while her stepdaughter Leonie Dohmke was Jana's club rival, and Leonie's mother Rosalie Dohmke feared Jana's secret could compromise the parole. Reuther still finds and corners another lurking suspect.Huntress and woodland owner Thea Zinner's shot fails to kill a grazing deer, but the sabotaged rifle kills her. A lurker manages to flee. Thea's daughter Susanne and partner Britta Albrecht claim to ignore any motive. Heiress Susanne's badly indebted businessman fiance Klaas Wachowiak needed a capital injection, but Tea planned to disinherit Susanne, in case she married the architect, who would be ruined, yet denies firmly. Max finds environmentalist Eric Kuhn is the lurker, while game keeper Jennifer Ehrlich took bribes to 'overlook' spoiled youngsters hunting with Klaas. Britta secretly separated from Thea.A day after winning 80.000 Euro in Wiesbaden Casino, Werner Prabek is found beaten on the head and fatally drowned in a public fountain. His wife Elena, whose retired father Kurt Abramczik is moving in, ignored he played, and about his fat inheritance, all lost already. Kurt and daughter lied about having visited Werner in the casino, he makes a fishy confession, despite alibi for both of them. Schubert finds out about a casino scam.Remote control-sabotaged breaks make Harald Fiedler crash fatally, driving the limousine of ruthless business consultant Karsten Wippermann, the presumed target as he made many enemies. Merry fresh widow Daniela Wippermann was already filing for a fat divorce while openly making love in the marital home with her studly suitor, ICT engineer Nils Kreuzkamp. Reuther and his team also find possible motives with a disgruntled client, in the garage where the car software was installed and with recently fired employee Maike Simmering, who remains in psych ward after a suicide attempt. Fiedler also was the boyfriend of Karsten's sister Masha Kruse, which leads to an old blackmail trail.Enigmatic attack.Rich plastic surgeon Klaus Westerberg, who enjoys the good life in a residence for kept woman, is found there injected with a lethal doses of illegally strong-concentrated botuline (the highly toxic Botox agent). His correct practice yields no motive. As sugar daddy, he switched girls, dumping some and 'stealing' his latest, a med student, from a real estate tycoon.Reuther insists to keep looking for other people with possible motives and opportunities, which proves prudent as a stalker strikes again at night, but even is apprehension isn't the end.Konrad Braach drowned beaten and pushed with a heavy wooden pole in the pond on his vehicle breaks industrialist family's grand estate. He seemed heir to the throne of his father, domineering patriarch Gernot Braach, who prepares withdrawing to the background due to bad health. Conrad's brother and only confident in the family Henry was the only one without a role in management, but all kin shares are needed to prevent a much larger Chinese competitor's hostile take over plan. Gernot got his devoted ex-con driver Viktor Lukov to serve as Henry's alibi. Max Fischer and Kerstin Klar discover first that Conrad spied for rival Sophia von Stern, later Gernot orchestrated that and Henri is the one whol secretly sold his shares to buy into the Chinese competitor. After pulling off a takeover counter-move and nominating Conrad's widow Janine new CEO, pending (grand)son Wilhelm growing up to ultimate new patriarch, Gernot makes a confession dismissed by Reuther, who doesn't believe it was indirectly by Viktor's hand either. Gernot produces a medical 'exemption from arrest or trial. A paternity test for pre-tee,n prince Wilhelm opens new investigative avenues.Major, domineering farmer near Wiesbaden Thomas Dittmann is shot dead while cuffed on his tractor. He made enemies of most villagers. Ex-girlfriend Saskia Loos lost her family heritage to him. Former youth and pub buddies Jens Ruff and Rudi Manske returned to town the previous day and had a row with him, as he blackmailed each of them to sign over the rights to a novel apple cider-like beverage which he got a contract for with a major firm to commercialize nation-wide. The fatal gun refers to he unsolved non-lethal shooting of publican Klaus Brandes, who runs the inn with wife Carmen Brandes and teen model son Gerold, but Reuther senses dark secrets, also with Thmas's uncooperative crone mother Ilse Dittmann, who mysteriously tried to delete an old child picture from his notebook.Contractor Holger Ahrens was fatally shot, tied to his vehicle. He employed underpaid employees and subcontractors to fake competition. Niko and Birte Tennberg claim Ahrens's failure to properly connect a pond pump caused their young son to die from a fatal shock. Virtual foreman Valentin Guga, who already moonlighted on the side, now inherits most clients, but suffers non-fatal sabotage himself. Ahrens and Guga's latest, major renovation client Angelika Lorenz and her daughter Daniela Falk discretely have more personal links to Holger.Tom Perscha was knocked-out in the elevator of his IT firm Perol which censures web sites, bound up gagged in the generator room and thus mechanically strangled by the emergency test. Co-founding manager and former partner Sandra Ohlig, no alibi, tontine-inherits instead of having to sell out cheap, as she already signed for. Employee Jenny Messner recently resigned, blaming the stress from unclear instructions. The parents of suicided employee Ben Lesch tried to sue the firm but were scared off by firm lawyers. Their anonymous source was non other then fired public official Rolf Brackner, a skilled hacker and conspiracy theory believer, seeking revenge for Perol helping to expose him, whom Jenny sent evidence files anonymously, after lover Ben's death. team Reuther finds more secrets.Traditional bakery owner-manager Lars Wagner is murdered in his office. Industrial 'competitor' Karl Reinhardt failed to buy him out. Lars and his brother Tobias inherited the Wagner bakery, but also a dark family secret involving founding patriarch Harald Wagner, whose constant abused killed their mother, but now he seeks reconciliation, diagnosed with terminal cancer. Even psychotherapist Tamara Runge doesn't understand the complex family traumas. Fresh widow Sibylle Wagner is very close with Tobias's son Simon, who soon disappears and is found fatally stabbed in a public place.River patrol emergency medic Frank Droste was drowned in the Rhine with lead on his diver's belt, after a non-fatal head wound. The water destroyed most traces. Reuther and Max duly question Kerstin Klar's blind faith in her friend, a decorated hero. Frank Droste and his predecessor as chair of the aquatic sports club Micha Haustedt blamed each-other for major accounting discrepancies, concerning forged equipment orders from Dirk Eisfeld's sports shop. Droste needed money to support his wife Hanna and his mistress Isabell Schuster who loves in another home with their kid son. Micha Haustedt's partner Vanja Resch is wheelchair-stuck since a diving accident Reuther looks into again.Sawmill owner Ludger Habold is found dead under a log. But Dr. Engel finds traces that indicate a physical altercation. The suspicion is that the cut tree is intended to simulate an accident.To Bernd Reuther's surprise, contractor Iris Steinwalk, whom he had a an appointment with to order a floor, dies in a car crash due to sabotaged breaks. Iris's daughter and firm heir, student Diana, is shocked, having lost her father years ago when he moved to Thailand bet kept contact by mail behind Iris's back. Neighbours Robert and Gaby Limmer support her but were part of the local hostility against Iris's business, which is believed to have caused asbestos poisoning, including some asthma patients among them. None is found however in the shed she furiously banned even Diana from entering. Mayor Blobel, Bernd Reuther's failed study mate, is found out in public works bribery involving Iris. Schubert first suspects as saboteur neighbor Lukas Gehrke, a car mechanic, then his simpleton son Bruno. A pair of tickets to Thailand sets Bernd's team on theory the father didn't just leave and may be the key.Successful, married attorney Theresa Sautier is fatally shot in her Wiesbaden villa. Bernd Reuther starts with her ex and her house companion. Her husband, fellow attorney Thomas Sautier, celebrated a trial win in a hotel, where an employee gives him an alibi by charging him with rape. Later the 'rape victim' has a fatal car accident, most suspicious to Reuther who supposes a set-up. Yet the team must also look into Theresa's law firm and the rebel daughter Jennifer Sautier.Chief accountant Dirk Maschke was shot at close range in his office. CEO Susanne Gottwald is shocked and cannot make sense of what is happening. Shortly before his death, Maschke had asked her for an urgent conversation.Love and greed.When his software-firm is robbed, co-manager Jens Schubeck is handcuffed, skull-smashed and fatally shot. Team Reuther wonder why his full partner Dominik Winder wasn't harmed as well. Even his wife finds his shifty behavior suspicious. Fresh widow Alexandra Schubeck is terrified by someone. Dominik Winder is surprisingly defended by slick attorney Paula Olafson, who recently moved back home from Hamburg, where she defended organized criminals. From his Hamburg undercover day, Max Fischer recognizes Olafsons shady companions Eric Rittmann and Hektor Peschke and gets Reuther to arrange for his alter-ego to be restored, so he can infiltrate as driver and manager of a laundering cover pawnshop. It proves quite dangerous, while forensic expert Dr. Judith Engel finds a crucial clue.The boss of a consulting firm is murdered in his Wiesbaden estate. Chief Public Prosecutor Bernd Reuther has to find out who has an interest in Dr. Rönsch's death. Forensic pathologist Dr. Judith Engel assumes death by suffocation.Left in a desolate wood, Irina Hofstetter's corpse shows various violent abuse. Nearby is found shred from expensive suit fabric. Detectives Max Fischer and Kerstin Klar question her best fiend Leonie Warmers, who recently reported her missing and tells Irina Hofstetter was about to start a new managerial job in a prestigious pharmaceutical firm, yet its CEO Dr. Berthold Lazos denies having heard of Irena. Her ex Jonas Domaschke, and his 'missing' sports gun puzzle the team. The dream job now goes to gray mouse Alexander Gruber, whose ambitious mother Miriam Gruber got him networked by entering the same exclusive business club as Dr. Berthold Lazos, Dr. Christian Weissgerber, her physician, undertaker Ralf Seiler, who recently buried Alexander's father Hubertus Gruber, and even Reuther's warrant judge. An exclusive spicy party retreat in the fatal forest proves key.Boxes factory CEO Victor Cornies was fatally stabbed at his company parking lot, with a sharp, unusual tool, hours after a business trip to Russia. Firm attorney Dr. Eberhard Schenk reveals Cornies's shady personal fortune prevented a bankruptcy. Business consultant Adrian von Baas also claims ignorance. Cornies recently rowed bitter with PA Katharina Grundlach, who disappeared. her colleague Ute Siebers was envious of their close relationship. Max Fischer and Kerstin Klar look into the foundation run with company donations by socialite fresh widow Tatjana Cornies, who probably knew the firm was shaky. Their son and heir, Nicholas Cornies, now aborts his brilliant studies to lead the firm he claims never to have wanted joining. Expensive handmade shoes lead team Reuther to cobble* Philipp Pelzer and his employee Michaela Dorn, who had an affair with Victor, but they also use the murder weapon, which helped Carnies smuggle diamonds.Death of a marriage.Hungry hearts.Shielded.Let the dead rest.The lesser evil.The perfect murder.Sister love.Between the lines.Death of a student.Deadly realization.Comrades pig.Abuse of office.Curse of the pictures.Macedonian-born wine importer Besnik Ivanov is fatally stabbed five-fold at night in his cellar. Bernd Reuther's colleague Zenz wants the case, as an angle to the years-failing case against Ivanov for cocaine trade. Forensics point at soon jailed Kurdish Turkish cook Ozman Kaymaz, whose employer and distant kin Ari Çanar's restaurant is shot at by Ivanov's son Vasco, Ari's corpse is found shortly after. Rether's team find complex links between the families of both business and personal natures.The dream of fast money.The night before pimp Joaquim Bosque's trial, the only witness from his brothel is run over, after being beaten multiply, no trace of rape. The next day, young tug Dennis Moll dies from a deep fall, possibly after witnessing the killer's car from his apartment and perhaps trying to blackmail him. Reuther's team realizes his girlfriend is hiding the truth and gets *. Meanwhile Thomas fears to have caught the flees from his kid son's class.Architekt Frank Overbeck's skull is smashed fatally with a golf club in his room in a Wiesbaden wellness hotel. Overbeck, hired by Hotel manager Claudia Berg on unusual terms, probably planned a to divorce lawyer Ursula in favor of his Russian lover, wellness-supervisor Natalia Krüger, who claims it was innocent like her other erotic clients and hotel pianist René Steinbach. Fired design firm partner Matthias Feldmann, who has a bone to pick with his former boss, is electrocuted on the street but pretends to ignore the assailant.The author of the manga comic Chiara is found murdered. But who has a motive to kill the handicapped guy?Net ball.Ride to death.A seductive game.Shortly after René Baumgard was fatally shot in the vineyard he recently succeeded to as manager, his father Herbert Baumgard volunteers a confession, which Rether doubts even before learning the man is a terminal cancer patient, who wouldn't loose much covering for kin. Reuther's team circumvents an order to close the case to save on tax money, looking into René's bitterly bickering siblings, passed-over wine-qualified Stefanie and intemperate 'black sheep' Felix. Schubert gets suspended, Reuther gets intrigued by the role of in-laws and housekeeper Ana Santos.Deadly ambition.Sport is murder.
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