Sun, Feb 22, 2009
The son of a top manager lies dead in the swimming pool of the elite boarding school at Hamberg Castle. At first glance it looks like suicide. Klara Blum believes that too - until she first doubts. When Kai Perlmann finds a torn laundry button in the pool's filter system and Klara discovers the matching duvet cover, it becomes clear that the boy was drowned like a cat in a sack. The slippery arrogance of the classmates causes the commissioner and her assistants not to let anyone in the school notice that they are investigating an extraordinarily cold-blooded violent crime. A game of cat and mouse with the suspect students begins. Despite Klara's psychologically cautious tactics, they soon realize that their "perfect" murder may be exposed. Since they also have to cover up a large-scale financial fraud with which the deceased in the swimming pool tried to blackmail them, and an accomplice begins to lose her nerve, they are already thinking about the next step. They are so cold-blooded that Klara seems to fall behind in their investigations. But when a classmate gossips during interrogation, Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann quickly catch up. It will be a race against death.
Sun, Mar 15, 2009
A police officer is shot dead just outside the airport after a routine traffic violation. But Lindholm seems to recognize the shooter in the blurry security video. The investigation just gathers steam when shadowy government figures intervene and tell Lindholm to cease investigating. Naturally she doesn't.
Mon, Jun 1, 2009
When the body of the well-known investigative journalist Sandra Walch was found in the Donau river, on a foggy autumn morning in Linz, the Vienna Interior Ministry triggered an alarm, and Moritz Eisner was sent as a special investigator. The journalist had been investigating possible fraud concerning artificial insemination.
Sun, Nov 1, 2009
A new case for the crime scene investigators from the capital: the Berlin meat king Hans Merklinger is found dead in the cold store of his factory. The dead man had been missing for several days, but was only reported missing by his lover Kathi. When Ritter and Stark enter the meat factory, there are no workers to be found. The boss's son, Maximilian, treats the commissioners with cool arrogance, as he is currently in contract negotiations with the Ukrainian Litvin brothers. They want to join the Merklinger company and are not bothered by the fact that the company was involved in a rotten meat scandal years ago. Merklinger's widow Christa was left by her husband a year ago. She takes the news of his death calmly, while Kathi, who is already planning to marry Merklinger. planned to collapse. Ritter and Stark learn from Merklinger's secretary of many years, Ms. Balthasar, that Merklinger used a trick and the help of subcontractor Joachim Kahle to turn Bulgarian workers into legal EU workers. Kahle's young friend Liljana is one of these Bulgarians. When she wants to flee with her brother Viktor, Ritter and Stark give chase. Knight is beaten up. He is hospitalized with a severe concussion. Stark is now forced to continue the investigation with Weber. What does Liljana have to do with Merklinger's death? Why did Maximilian not tell the police that his father had been missing for days? Stark has to unravel a web of subsidy fraud, shady dealings in the meat industry and a private tragedy. Ritter isn't really allowed to strain his head, but the case won't let him rest in the hospital either.
Sun, Nov 15, 2009
Lindholm is called in from some days off at home to assist in the investigation of a series of killings by a sniper. Are they random? The local detective in charge is an arrogant hothead. Lindholm nevertheless puts the clues gradually together and they lead to a series of unexpected finds.
Sun, Dec 27, 2009
In a crematorium, the doctor noticed irregularities during the post-mortem examination of the former lawyer Schubert. He informs the police, Lannert and Bootz. The medical examiner found some age-related diseases, the ingestion of a poison is obvious, probably it is a real cocktail of different sleeping pills.