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Everything could have been so nice for Sophie: back to Cologne, back to her old job, back to her old life - and away from Hengasch! But since she reckoned without the innkeeper or her father Hannes. When he suffers a heart attack, Sophie not only learns that his health is not good, but also that the stubborn old man bought the old forester's lodge in Hengasch behind her back. So it's clear: Sophie stays!
To Sophie's surprise, the new nurse Danuta is extremely elegant and speaks fluent German. It's no wonder that Hannes gets along with her very well right from the start. Everything seems peaceful until cute ceramic figures suddenly explode in several front gardens. The ceramic cat in front of the Schäffers' house and the wild boar figures in the front yard of old Zielonka also have to die. One quickly becomes certain: Terror in Hengasch! At first, Sophie and her colleagues assume that the village youth is playing a practical joke.
Sophie is amazed when the quirky ornithologist Professor Franzen appears at the station and has Dietmar and Bärbel imitate bird calls - apparently a ritual with tradition, because Prof. Franzen comes by once a year together with a group of students to inspect the extraordinarily rare bluethroat in to watch his nesting refuge in Hengasch. Unfortunately, the fun of the ornithologists is short-lived, because one of the students is found dead in the woods. Initially, Prof. Franzen is targeted by Sophie because very compromising photos show him in a bird costume together with the dead woman.
Gardener Schönfelder can no longer keep up with the geranium prices of the big hardware store chains. But before he surrenders to his fate without a fight, he wants to use his green fingers one last time and breeds hashish - the craziest hashish far and wide, because as an expert he has the necessary know-how. But since he never expected such a large harvest in his life, the stuff literally grows over his head, so that the completely overwhelmed gardener doesn't know what to do now.
Nerves are on edge in Hengasch. When the weather is nice, umpteen motorbikes thunder through the town every weekend, because if you want to take a spin in the Eifel on your bike, you have to go through Hengasch. Visitors from the city are welcome to half of the Hengasher, not to the other half. As is always the case, the innkeepers benefit, while the farmers complain about the noise and trampled fields.
Bärbel comes back from further training on the subject of profiling and believes from now on that he can look behind people's foreheads - which of course is absolute nonsense, but Sophie lets her do it for the time being. But when Bärbel becomes more and more independent in the course of the current case, Sophie has to call her to order.
At a small drink on the occasion of Bärbel's birthday in the "Gasthof Aubach", Sophie allows herself one or two too many glasses, gets caught in an alcohol test and has to hand in her driver's license. In addition, proceedings are being initiated against her because there is a suspicion that she has committed a breach of service supervision. Sophie is suspended for the time being and Dietmar has to head the police station on an interim basis. But when one of the owners of the local brothel "Waldhaus Amore" is found shot dead in front of his establishment, Sophie gives up on her suspension and takes up the investigation - much to the displeasure of Heike and especially Zielonka sen. For the first time, Bärbel can claim success with her new psychological approach.
Little Timmi is gone and all of Hengasch is helping to look for the baby. Above all, his mother Nicole and his father Bauer Ludwig Jaschke are devastated and cannot explain who should have kidnapped the little one. Although Ludwig had various enemies, e.g. B. Beekeeper Petri, whose bee colonies died because of Jaschke's genetic maize. But the deeper Sophie, Dietmar and Bärbel delve into the case, the clearer it becomes that the Jaschkes are guarding a family secret, because apparently Nicole and her brother-in-law have become very close in the past - which also raises the question of who the biological father is is from Timmi and therefore might have a reason for a kidnapping.
It's "slaughter week" at the Gasthof Aubach and because Sophie forgot to go shopping, she pays a visit to the restaurant. There she meets golf instructor Gerard. And because she's been through a long dry spell when it comes to men, she takes Gerard home with her for dessert, so to speak - Hannes is still in Poland with Danuta. The next day, Sophie is blown away when she learns that Gerard is dead at the 18th hole of the golf club near Liebernich.
When Sophie hears about the sudden death of the pensioner Vostell, she immediately senses a crime, because the circumstances of the death make no sense to her. Since the Vostell case is not her responsibility, but that of her colleagues from Bad Münstereifel, who absolutely don't want to know anything about a crime, Sophie has to start the investigation on her own - undercover: on a campsite, together with Dietmar Schäffer – disguised as a married couple ...
There was a break-in at Arthur Brandt's house, an influential Hengasher who, among other things, is a sponsor of the volunteer fire brigade and whom the whole of Hengasch bows down to. He was allegedly surprised and knocked out by the burglar. Sophie doesn't believe him, but suspects an insurance scam and doesn't have any problems messing with the influential man.
Sophie is invited to dinner at Jochen Kauth's and is amazed at the exaggerated effort that he has made for a seemingly ordinary mid-week dinner. For Kauth, however, it is no ordinary dinner: he solemnly proposes to Sophie! Sophie responds with a resolute "Yes," which slightly annoys Kauth. That's not all, there is actually only one person who had a motive for the murder of animal healer Junk: And the person's name is Jochen Kauth!
Sophie is busy with her wedding preparations, although the Hengascher bourgeois rituals really get on her nerves. Grateful for every distraction, she runs after the fleeing jewel thief “Marilyn” in the middle of the wedding dress fitting. Sophie is also suspicious of the archaic May Festival rituals, in which May Queens are auctioned off to the “highest bidder”. Lo and behold, the head of the May Committee, Josten, is found dead. He appears to have died of a heart attack just before he was about to hang himself. But Sophie doesn't quite believe in a natural cause. Finally, last year, the unsympathetic bought May Queen Tine, girlfriend of May Committee member Sascha. Tine stubbornly keeps quiet about exactly what happened back then.
