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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...
On 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
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.
An unknown woman is found murdered near the quiet village of Hengasch. Andreas Zielonka, a policeman from Koblenz, investigates together with Haas...
A dispute breaks out between the Pole Leszek and his employer Herbert and, in the scuffle, the worker knocks his master off the balcony. Convinced that he has killed him, the stranger flees.
A woman is found dead in the garden of her house and the investigations that Commissioner Haas carries out involve both her cohabitants and the neighbor couple.
When Barbel's surrogate grandmother dies, Sophie soon discovers the old woman was murdered.
Sophie is preoccupied with her personal life when a body is found hanging from a radio telescope.
Sophie has now embarked on an affair with veterinarian Kauth, which not only has advantages. For example, she has to assist in the birth of twin calves before starting work, which hits her stomach more than the sight of a corpse. When winemaker Hubert Kreuzberg leads the officers to a small, dead body lying in the middle of his vineyard, the horrified officials initially believe it is a child. But it is the dwarf thief and fencer Arno Hümmel, who was released from custody only two days ago. What brought him to the Eifel and Kreuzberg's vineyard? And who maltreated his little skull with a big bottle of red wine?
For 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?
Sophie 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 young zoo employee Sonja is abandoned by her friend and colleague Jens. The mentally unstable woman freaks out. She adores Jens and in her exaggerated jealousy she fears that he wants to return to his ex-girlfriend Conny, who is paralyzed after an accident. She threatens to kill herself and the baby collared bear Gustav, who is in her care, if Jens doesn't change his mind. Can Sophie, Bärbel and Dietmar persuade Sonja, who is determined to do anything, to give up?
