Two early cyclist bump in the forest onto the naked corpse of local Karl Unger, who apparently made a fatal fall on a rock, caused by a rope blocking the path. Sven Hansen and Korbinian Hofer learn he -like some other locals- regularly cycled backpack-only, greatly annoying grumpy neighbor, and keep digging for motives and opportunity. Sven realizes the rock was manipulated by the killer. Korbinian is distracted, as precinct controller Ortmann, who was instructed to restrain his unaccounted absences, came up with a draconian 'sanction contract', which his sister Marie Hofer craftily counters, nudging chief Achzinger via networking.
—KGF Vissers