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Young Marcello is very much in love and very worried. His girlfriend Julia sounds scared and lonely on the phone in Ludwigshafen - but Marcello is in Italy. The family vehemently rejects the German friend, so Marcello simply leaves to help Julia. A cheap ride comes with his new friend Mario Kopper, who was a guest at a wedding in Italy with his colleague Lena Odenthal. Julia is relieved and happy when she sees Marcello again. Even before she can tell him what is tormenting her, her brother Robbi interrupts the joy of seeing them again. Robbi, unemployed, xenophobic and violent, doesn't begrudge his sister her love for the young Italian. He lies in wait for the two, attacks Marcello and pulls out his knife. Marcello defends himself and fatally injures Robbi.
Frightened, Julia and the injured Marcello flee and hide in a demolished building. Lena and Kopper have no idea that their new case could have something to do with the likeable young Italian whom they met in Italy. At the scene of the crime, they learn that Robbi belonged to a clique of neo-Nazis. When they interrogate Robbi's mother, something else becomes clear to them: Robbi made his mother a victim of his violence and alsobeaten his sister Julia. Julia, says her mother, is on vacation with friends. Lena, however, recognizes the girl she has just seen in the neighborhood from a family photo. Apparently Julia is hiding from the police. The girl becomes the prime suspect. While Lena and Kopper collect clues, Marcello and Julia think of a way out in their refuge.
They are depressed, but determined not to separate again, and that also means not turning themselves in to the police. Marcello has the saving idea: They will flee to Italy and start a life together there. Kopper's buddy Roberto will take her with him. Lovers don't have much time left. Lena finds more and more evidence that Julia has a boyfriend who is involved in the case. When Kopper sees Marcello again, he begins to suspect that this friend is the young Italian. He tries to protect Marcello. At first he is quite successful, but then Lena realizes that Kopper is hiding something from her. She forces him to tell her his suspicions. Lena is deeply disappointed by Kopper's cover-up tactics. Kopper is disappointed because Lena has no understanding for love.
Internally divided, the two drive behind Marcello and Julia.

Once again false alarm for the Leipzig Kripo. The parts of an alleged woman's corpse in the container turn out to be a prosthesis. Less than half an hour later there is a dead person in the immediate vicinity. A young girl was killed in her parents' house and fell down a flight of stairs. The fatal thing about the case is that Chief Inspector Kain had just seen the girl on the street. She was involved in an argument with her boyfriend and was forcibly returned to the house by himbeen pushed. Although he had arranged for a routine check, Cain blames himself for not having intervened himself. He finds the obvious perpetrator as Martin Kubelka in a BKA file. The saliva analysis agrees with his values. For Cain, the case is clear. Without waiting for the sperm analysis, he obtains an arrest warrant from the public prosecutor. But the next day, Kubelka is free again – due to a lack of evidence.

A body lies on a boat, a suspect runs away with the murder weapon in his hands, and there are indications of a robbery at the crime scene: Klara Blum's new case seems to have been solved from the start. Without hesitation, the public prosecutor signs the arrest warrant. With a confession from the suspect, the case would be complete. But Daniel Seefried denies the murder of the rich industrialist Wolfgang Reichert. He appears dazed and believes he has been drugged. He himself does not know how he got on the ship and the knife in his hand. Hard to believe and even harder to prove. Klara is suspicious of Seefried. But she's also confused. The number of Rita Fürmann, the public prosecutor's wife , is found in Seefried's phone memory .
Fürmann arranges a local appointment on the ship, during which Seefried manages to escape. Intent or carelessness of the prosecutor? In any case, Seefried has disappeared. When Klara found out that Fürmann had his wife observed and knew about her affair with Seefried, she began to doubt his integrity. Is the prosecutor really objective about the suspect? Rita Fürmann is convinced that her husband knows nothing about the affair and asks Klara not to tell him anything about it. She fears for her husband's emotional balance. Fürmann's decisions and his passivity during interrogations suddenly appear in a completely different light. 

The celebrated actress Araine Claasen is at the peak of her career: She is beautiful and successful and is about to receive a television award. But then the beautiful appearance begins to crumble. First Ariane discovers that her husband and manager Roman is cheating on her with the beautiful young actress Pia Marshall, then her husband is suddenly shot dead in his villa under mysterious circumstances. Ariane is suspected of being her husbandkilled out of jealousy. How good that she has her sister Franziska at her side, who supports her, but probably knows more than she admits. Till Ritter and Felix Stark don't find it easy to investigate in the dazzling film world, especially since Ariane is at the center of a media mud battle. But their investigations soon focus on the mysterious stalker Ricky, a psychopath who seems obsessed with Ariane.

When Bienzle drives through a village on the Alb on the way back from a conference early in the morning, he sees a light in a bakery. Bienzle gets the first fresh pretzels of the day from the master baker. Because he left his wallet behind, he turns back. However, his second visit to the bakery is less pleasant: he finds the baker bent over in his tub of dough – suffocated. Against his will, he is appointed chief investigator in the village.

A woman's body is found. By coincidence, Inspector Dellwo and his colleague Sänger are able to determine the identity of the dead very quickly. But when reconstructing the last hours of the murdered woman, they encounter numerous inconsistencies. A lot of what the dead man's husband says doesn't go with the commissars' findings at all. To make matters worse, at least that's how Commissioner Dellwo sees it, in this case toonor the BKA put in front of the nose. Dellwo finds that these BKA colleagues not only behave arrogantly, but actually hinder him and Charlotte Sänger in their work. Werner Fromm, head of the homicide squad, tries to mediate between the parties - with little success. When Inspector Singer finds a crucial clue to the perpetrator, they act on their own and maneuver themselves into a very dangerous situation.

Maria Wagner (Claudia Michelsen) has a child and doesn't know what to do next: the young woman is desperately trying to keep her pregnancy a secret. She even wants to get through the birth on her own. At home and without medical help, Maria Wagner gives birth to her child – only her sister-in-law Julia Wagner (Feo Aladag) is in on it. The situation seems so hopeless for the young mother that she gives her baby anonymously to the baby hatch of a hospital immediately after birth. Shortly thereafter, a nurse from the baby hatch is found murdered at her place of work. The flap is empty: someone has kidnapped the baby that was just dropped. Chief inspectors Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) quickly have an initial lead: he is an urgent suspectEx-boyfriend of the dead, Bernd Schiffer (Erdal Yildiz).
He had threatened the nurse several times after their separation. But why would he kidnap a stranger's child from the baby hatch? The night after the birth, Maria Wagner was taken to the hospital with heavy post-operative bleeding – and identified as the mother of the kidnapped baby. Schenk and Ballauf look around Maria Wagner's environment: they are stunned to discover that the daughter-in-law of the wealthy chemical entrepreneur Heinrich Wagner (Manfred Zapatka) apparently had no reason to give away her newborn. What could have prompted her to take this step? Ballauf and Schenk suspect that the answers to their questions are hidden behind the bourgeois façade of the Wagner family...

Death is nothing unusual in a retirement home, not even in the Ludwigshafen Villa Grünwald. However, Marina Cortese's life did not come to a natural end, she was pushed down the stairs on purpose. Lena Odenthal's investigations begin with a surprise: in Grünwald, the inspector stands in front of her aunt Emma Odenthal. The two have not had any contact since a dispute many years ago and Emma, who is now paralyzed, still refuses to communicate with Lena. With this attitude, she not only paralyzes her reunion with Lena, but also the investigation, because Emma was the best friend of the dead woman and found the body. After all, Lena learns that Marina Cortese had an impressive series of love affairs. On the night of her death, she wanted to meet a new suitor.
But nobody seems to know this admirer. The residents of Grünwald live happily ever after, but often not quite in reality. It was not an easy task for Lena and Kopper to get usable statements from the old people. Director Karl Kranz certainly doesn't help, he would like to send the police away again right away. Kranz, even at the age of his protégés, sold his company years ago, bought the villa and made Grünwald his purpose in life. Protecting his project is his main goal. When the inspectors begin to concern themselves with Willy Vogelsang, the childishly strange house factotum, Kranz becomes aggressive and surprisingly gives Willy an alibi.
Emma could tell more about Willy because she saw him by the body, he confided in her that he is the one Marina wanted to meet. But Emma believes the frightened Willy that he is not the murderer. She wants to protect him and find out on her own who killed her friend. She begins to sound out her roommates. Henk Blumenfeld, for example, a former lover of Marina's who is now courting her. In her youth, Emma was Lena's great role model, she wanted to emulate her, become independent, strong, and self-reliant. But Emma deeply disappointed her niece when she refused to discuss her youth under fascism. The close relationship was abruptly interrupted and now Emma is not ready to resume it.
Torn between the investigation and the desire for a reconciliation, Lena tries to find out why her aunt is in a wheelchair. But Emma's paralysis has no organic causes, it is caused by a blockage in her soul. What triggered it is unknown to everyone in the home. Emma knows how to keep her secrets. Too good to keep, because while Lena and Kopper find clues that Willy is the culprit, Emma ignores the danger she has put herself in.

In the middle of Charlotte's investigation, Hellmann's daughter Kirsten, who had refused to have any contact with her father for years, bursts out. Charlotte learns from Kirsten that her deceased mother, Anna Hellmann, was notorious among the locals for her revealing hippie attitudes. Nothing seems to have changed in this assessment. The witnesses at the time, such as the innkeeper Matthias Bergstedt, the cashier Lisbeth Struck and her mentally confused sister Erika, cannot or do not want to remember the inspector. And on the evening of Werner Hellmann's murder, all the villagers allegedly helped put out Erika's burning house. But soon some of the alibis crumble. The situation escalates when Kirsten announces at her father's funeral that she wants to hunt down her parents' killer.
In the middle of Charlotte's investigation, Hellmann's daughter Kirsten, who had refused to have any contact with her father for years, bursts out. Charlotte learns from Kirsten that her deceased mother, Anna Hellmann, was notorious among the locals for her revealing hippie attitudes. Nothing seems to have changed in this assessment. The witnesses at the time, such as the innkeeper Matthias Bergstedt, the cashier Lisbeth Struck and her mentally confused sister Erika, cannot or do not want to remember the inspector. And on the evening of Werner Hellmann's murder, all the villagers allegedly helped put out Erika's burning house. But soon some of the alibis crumble. The situation escalates when Kirsten announces at her father's funeral that she wants to hunt down her parents' killer.

It should be so nice: Munich Chief Inspector Ivo Batic has applied for leave. His cousin Branka with her husband Darko and their 15-year-old daughter Malina come to visit from a small town near Mitrovica. The women want to go shopping, Ivo Batic will show them Munich. The body of the Kosovo Albanian Maruf Selmani is found in the undergrowth on the banks of the Isar. Selmani was tortured before his death. Batic is affected by Selmani's death, he feels called upon to solve the case because of his background and his knowledge. At police headquarters, Chief Inspector Wolfgang Hackl from Nuremberg reported to Carlo Menzinger that he was about to start work. He takes over the vacation replacement for Batic.
The Franconian chief inspector is extremely precise in the investigations that follow and strains the nerves of the two inspectors to the breaking point. In addition, Chief Inspector Franz Leitmayr has to put the brakes on his colleague Batic, who, despite his vacation, is getting into an ongoing interrogation with the car dealerFritzi Wagner. Wagner is said to have connections with arms deliveries to the UCK. A fight ensues. Batic, his relative Darko - like him a police officer - want to help. Wagner is injured in the argument and Leitmayr is caught between the fronts. He resents Batic's constant meddling from vacation. And Batic finds himself sidelined by his fellow homicide detectives for the first time. It gets worse: Batic wants to apologize to the car dealer for his rough gait.
He finds himself in a fateful situation, at the end of which he ends up in the line of fire of police investigations as a murder suspect. Leitmayr and Batic are seriously at odds, but Carlo Menzinger has identified the culprit: Franconian Hackl is not the clean man he claims to be, his biography contains inconsistencies. The crisis came to a head when those involved realized that tranquil Munich was by no means spared the effects of the war in the Balkans.

The rich businessman Stefan Kühn is sent to a bank as a living bomb by three gangsters to demand three million. Freddy Schenk, who happens to be a witness to the unusual bank robbery, calls his colleague Max Ballauf, who alerts the SEK. The bank robbers escape and leave a dead body. Ballauf and Schenk take up the investigation, which initially leads nowhere. The gangsters seem to be shadowless. But then Max notices a small but important clue that prompts him to research in a completely different direction.

A reunion of the unpleasant kind: Chief Inspector Kain recognizes his former school friend Eddie in the dead homeless man on the riverbank. Even as a teenager, he was not a sports enthusiast and would never have stepped into the water voluntarily. While Chief Inspector Ehrlicher cannot completely rule out suicide out of desperation, for Kain it is clearly murder. Suspicion falls on Sergeant Frank Lohner, in whose precinct Ehrlicher and Kain are investigating. A district of Leipzig that differs from the surrounding area in terms of cleanliness and order. Apparently, the rule here is not just one with a steady hand. Beneath the neat surface simmers a dark secret that no one wants to talk about.

Laura Kern is the woman most men dream of: in her late 20s, blonde, pale, a little wacky, looking a little helpless, but endlessly helpful to everyone who needs her help: be it her terminally ill father, her always ailing father children, her grumpy husband Herbert or her soulful lover David. When Laura finds her husband dead in his restaurant one evening, she can be sure of everyone's sympathy. Chief Inspector Inga Lürsen, who is investigating the murder, is also impressed by Laura. Unlike her colleague Stedefreund: He has doubts as to whether Laura is really the innocent angel that everyone thinks she is.

Riot in Hamburg: Convicted serial killer Born disappears without a trace when he is released with his therapist Simon Ruder. Because chief inspector Jan Casstorff had arrested Born at the time, he is called into the case. But even he cannot prevent two more prostitutes from being killed in quick succession. While the pimp Schöndauer swears revenge, the report by the psychologist Ruder, who believed Born had been treated and allowed him to go free, seems to have been definitively refuted. Shortly after, Born is found hanged. The case seems settled. But during their investigations into the red-light district and the circumstances of Born's escape, Casstorff, Eduard Holicek and Jenny Graf come across information that suggests a different, outrageous background to the crime.

Freddy Schenk is caught up in the past: more than five years ago he put Ronald Lochte behind bars for a bank robbery that Lochte has always denied. Now it turns out that it probably actually hit the wrong person back then. During an armed robbery at a gas station, the surveillance cameras show a perpetrator who looks confusingly like the imprisoned Lochte. The old case appears in a new light. Is the doppelganger also responsible for the bank robbery at the time - so Ronald Lochte is innocent? However, Lochte now insists he was responsible for the bank robbery. His girlfriend Verena Radek persuaded him to admit the crime: bothare hoping for a relaxed prison regime and early release. But Lochte's parole application is not approved.
For the young, impulsive man, a world collapses again. He decides to break out of prison. His plan succeeds. However, while fleeing, Lochte kills a law enforcement officer. Freddy Schenk is now increasingly plagued by pangs of conscience. He feels responsible for the judicial victim Lochte - in contrast to his colleague. For Max Ballauf, Lochte is a murderer. The commissioners start following him. In the process, Schenk himself becomes a target. Because Lochte is desperately trying to hold those responsible for his fate accountable... 

A series of murders startles the tourist town of Lahnenberg from its happy hustle and bustle. The guests of the place stay away, for the hoteliers a financial catastrophe is looming. A race against time begins for criminalists Moritz Eisner and Stefanie Gschnitzer: every day the perpetrator murders a tourist, which he plans and carries out perfectly. Is it pure coincidence that all the victims were guests of the Alpenhotel? The clues are sparse, but all murder cases have one thing in common: With every corpse, the killer leaves behind a "deadly souvenir" - a snow globe. Moritz Eisner and Stefanie Gschnitzer hit each other during theirInvestigations in this highly complex case through the financial and emotional jungle of the place and the leading hotelier family Kofler, who own the Alpenhotel.
The circle of suspects keeps growing: There is the brother Werner of the Lahnenberger Hotel Kaiser, Markus Kofler, who can identify just as little with the type of tourism practiced as his old father, who cannot stand against the superiority of the Kofler brothers can prevail. And finally, the DJ and entertainer Jan, who works at the Alpenhotel and who had a serious argument with a murder victim the day before, is examined more closely by the inspectors.

Hans Garbrecht (Klaus Manchen), the manager of a large housing company, has been shot in his house. What initially looks like a routine case soon leads Till Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Felix Stark (Boris Aljinovic) deep into the German-German past: They find out that Garbrecht was a major in the GDR's foreign espionage and a list with aliases. Shortly thereafter, the suspects included the well-known TV presenter Maria Berkbusch (Aglaia Szyszkowitz), who was seen at the murdered man's villa at the time of the crime. The critical journalist has been looking for a mysterious spy with the alias "Leopard" for a long time.
Maria is currently researching a book that will be published by her husband Max Vollrath (Felix von Manteuffel) and will cause a stir: It is a revealing book about Stasi files and agents at the time, but above all about that mysterious "Leopard". What did Garbrecht know about it? Was he the "Leopard"? However, Maria's interest in "Leopard" is not only of a professional nature, she also has a private interest in asking him: 25 years ago, he made sure that her parents, who were opponents of the regime, were betrayed in the GDR and in front of them eyes have committed suicide. On the search for the traitor, Maria finally comes across the "Rosenholz" file and hopes to find the real name of the "Leopard", because it lists all the people who have ever spied for the GDR.
Together with her friend Dr. Gerd Rabius (Michael Goldberg) from the Birthler Authority tries to get hold of the material, but the "Rosenholz" file is under lock and key. But soon the up-and-coming politician Wolfgang Zimmerer (Christoph Grunert), who is the managing director of a housing company, is the focus of the investigation - was it his car that was seen at the scene of the crime? Was he perhaps blackmailed by Garbrecht, especially since documents appear in which he undertakes to give Garbrecht a lucrative piece of land on Rügen? Suddenly, events are rushing.
When Maria wants to cooperate with Ritter and Stark so that she can access the "Rosenholz" file via the two commissioners, her entire archive suddenly goes up in flames and all her documents about the "Leopard" are destroyed forever. The traces point to arson. During their research, Ritter and Stark also interview Maria's aunt, the sculptress Jutta Berkbusch (Tatja Seibt). Can she bring light into the darkness, because she adopted Maria after the death of her parents? But then Maria makes a discovery that she would never have expected and that shakes her deeply..

Anita Holz is still happy. The wedding with Konrad Lenzen is imminent, they have waited a year after the death of their husband. And Konrad wants to put his inheritance into her taxi company to save her from bankruptcy. Then she can finally get rid of her biggest creditor, Erich Blacher, the largest taxi company in Stuttgart, who has been targeting her business for a long time. But Anita Holz' happy future is gone when Bienzle is called to a crime scene: Taxi driver Konrad Lenzen has been stabbed. His wallet is empty, a robbery is likely - but a year earlier Gerhard Holz, Anita's husband, died in exactly the same way. While the search for the last passengers from Lenzen begins, Bienzle and Gächter interrogate Anita Holz, who is trying to regain her composure.
In addition to the grief for her fiancé, there is economic pressure. In the tough competitive situation of the taxi companies, the Holz company got heavily in debt. The murder of her husband was filed unsolved - the same perpetrator may have struck again. This is exactly what scares the taxi drivers. Whether they belong to Holz, Blacher's company, or are self-employed, they all fear a serial killer targeting taxi drivers. More than one of them gets frustrated when a passenger looks suspicious at night. Erich Blacher, on the other hand, can triumph because Konrad Lenzen's death gives him access to the Holz company.
Of course, the files of the old case are examined again and Bienzle can't help but notice that his colleague Gollhofer, who has meanwhile retired, worked rather sloppily. But Gollhofer has retired to his winery on the hills of Stuttgart and no longer wants to be addressed about old cases. Not a good role model for Bienzle, who has just received the news that he is to be appointed as his successor as chief detective. His joy is clouded because Hannelore sees the promotion as a reason to force a new suit on Bienzle – but no reason to accompany him to the appointment ceremony.
But that is canceled anyway, because another stabbed taxi driver is found: Thomas Breuer, a driver who studied law and who often loudly criticized the working conditions in the taxi business. In the Taxistüble, the drivers' traditional meeting place, talk of vigilantism is getting louder.

It's the middle of November, but the dead man found in a gravel pit is dressed lightly for summer. Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper have no clues as to the identity of the dead man. More than a note with an address in Ludwigshafen is not found on the man. But the research in the residential area is fruitless, nobody has ever seen the dead man. But nobody seems to care either - in this neighborhood, where many stranded people live, people are too busy with their own problems to react to dead strangers. Only the girl Leyla, a twelve-year-old Kurd, reacts with concern. Her big brother Mehmet, with whom she came to Germany, left and hasn't come back yet. Leyla is relieved that the dead man is not Mehmet.
Lena and Kopper wonder if the girl would be in better hands with the youth emergency service, but Leyla continues to believe in her brother's promise to be back soon and to bring money with her. And the settlement's social worker, Peter Marler, also calms Lena Odenthal down. He keeps an eye on Leyla, police support is not necessary. But the investigations soon lead Lena back to Leyla. There is a piece of fabric in the dead man's shoes that Lena recognizes: Leyla's doll's dress is made of the same material. So the man has something to do with the settlement and with Leyla after all. Lena doesn't just want to leave the closed girl to her own devices anyway. In fact, Leyla thaws a bit when she visits the zoo.
But with a lot of temper she refuses to reveal how she came to the material. Or what her brother is doing, who actually shouldn't have left town. She also maintains that she and Mehmet flew to Germany via Lebanon, although Lena and Kopper are increasingly convinced that Leyla, like the dead man from the gravel pit, was smuggled into the country illegally. It's not the only illegal act they notice in the settlement. They often meet people who have just had an operation without anyone knowing that they are ill. The doctors here only see these patients when complications arise.
Several kidney surgeries on foreigners who don't want to talk about it, allow only one conclusion: Lena and Kopper are on the trail of organ dealers who are taking advantage of the illegal immigrants' plight. Lena is sure that none of this will happen without the knowledge of the social worker Peter Marler. But he protests his innocence. While Leyla dutifully goes to the doctor Maria, as Peter instructed her, Lena realizes that the girl is in danger.

They grow up without parents. In Bermuda, a residential community looked after by the youth welfare office, four young people live in chaos. But one of them has just become a millionaire: Winnie Sylvester (Paula Kalenberg). Her mother, the manager of a Cologne car dealership, was found stabbed to death on the banks of the Rhine. The chief inspectors Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) investigate. The workshop manager of the car dealership, Wolf-Dieter Lachner, quickly comes under suspicion. He was having an affair with his boss. And there had been a fight between the two. It also turns out that Lachner is involved in car smuggling and has contacts with theRussian mafia has. But then Ballauf and Schenk increasingly target youngsters in Bermuda. David (Florian Riedel) works as an apprentice in the car dealership.
He should be fired for taking the car for a spin at night. The behavioral problem Philipp (Sergej Moya) also has a hobby that inspires little confidence: he is a passionate knife thrower. And Marlott (Marie-Luise Schramm) turns out to be a passionate pickpocket. The supervisor of the residential group Michael Kramer (Ulrich Gebauer) is completely overwhelmed. You can't get anything out of the youngsters. Suddenly there is a second dead person...

A man is rescued dead from the Elbe. The autopsy shows he was electrocuted in his bathtub. Chief Inspector Jan Casstorff suspects a planned murder. He and his team find out that the dead man is the unscrupulous entrepreneur Heinrich Kehl, who in the 1980s rose as a porn producer and then as a real estate speculator just as quickly as he later fell. Kehl lived in Hamburg in an apartment building that he had officially signed over to his sister, although he was actually the landlord himself. The collapse of Kehl's shaky real estate empire drove many of his business partners to bankruptcy, some even to suicide, as Jenny Graf researches.
Kehl's former partner Bürger is now an alcoholic and is said to have been in Hamburg at the time of the crime, but there is no trace of him. Holicek sticks to his scent. But Casstorff noticed in his first interviews that most of Kehl's tenants didn't shed any tears either: the man was notorious as a tyrant and womanizer. Apparently, some of the residents had already secretly begun to make their own plans for the house, bypassing Kehl. But is the murderer hiding behind it? (

The great literary agent Ira Kusmansky gives an exclusive oyster dinner for her star authors in her house. While the gourmet chef Leni Silbernagel and the kitchen team put the finishing touches on the best-selling authors watch each other with eagle eyes. Faced with opulently filled food platters, one is brimming with spirit and poison. In the illustrious circle, the crime author Roswitha Reimers, Ingrid Sanzara, an author of cheerful women's novels, Susanne Trier, bestselling author and at the same time much envied TV presenter, Laura Lord, author of science fiction novels, the sex and crime writer Hermine Horkens and the kit author Stefanie shine force. The long-suffering supermother of the successful menagerie is the editor Barbara Gerhard.
Above all, the rumor hovers that the literary agent has a three-book contract worth millions to award, but only to one of the group. When the author Anna Stahlberg-Zeulig has to retire to an adjoining room because of nausea, that can't dampen the mood, the old feminist is out of the race anyway. She hasn't had a hit book in yearsreleased. A little later, the criminal police are in the villa, because Anna Stahlberg-Zeulig is dead. The Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic, Franz Leitmayr and chief inspector Carlo Menzinger take up the investigation and get caught between the millstones of female striving for success. For Carlo Menzinger, this resulted in severe pain attacks, Ivo Batic found himself at the mercy of sexual assault, and Franz Leitmayr got into trouble with Isabelle Osten, the police spokeswoman.
A glimpse into the private spheres of successful women, and the mechanisms of the world of books, which is contested for power and the market, gradually leads the inspectors to believe that their investigations are just fodder for the women's fantasies. Then a second murder happens. None of the authors show their fear. But who will be next? Between books, brothel and libraries, the Munich investigators succeed in gaining insight into the worlds of women step by step, and in the end they can serve the writers their "murderer": not an artificial figure, but one of them, a lost soul.

Frank Thiel doesn't hesitate for a second. The inspector boldly rushes into the burning house. But for Dr. Any help comes too late for Andreas Weis. Was it a targeted arson attack? It seems likely. Because the former star lawyer played an important role in the case of the dead Lisa Zenker. There are many indications that there is a connection between the two cases: After a traffic accident, the young woman was paralyzed from the neck down. dr Weis was behind the wheel at the time. Now her life has been ended with a drug cocktail. Euthanasia, forensic doctor Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne is still at the scene of the crime - the home for the disabled in which the girl lived. The head of the home Katharina Stoll is one of the last that Dr. saw Weiss alive. He was her legal adviser.
Both have tirelessly tried to solicit monetary donations for the upkeep of the facility - as it turns out with great success. Was it the right thing to do? Thiel doubts, but Boerne is blinded. The young wheelchair user is a woman according to his tastes: attractive, committed and not open-mouthed. Then prosecutor di Ambrosio intervened: For him, the murder of Dr. Points clearly to the account of Helmut Zenker, the dead girl's father. He had never forgiven the lawyer for the fatal accident involving his daughter. A clear motive, but Commissioner Thiel is not convinced. Boerne makes an interesting discovery...

When Kremlin, the head of a foreign cleaning crew, steps out into the street after work is done in a high-rise building, a dead person is lying at his feet: his African cleaning man Koffi. Kremlin eliminates the dead man who worked for him illegally. In his closed hand he finds the gold membership pin of a golf club. Kremlin knows who the killer is and starts blackmailing him. When Koffi's body is found in a green space, Ritter and Stark dive ina foreign culture of the African community in Berlin. Freda Amadou, the dead man's beautiful and pregnant friend, is silent. Does she want to protect the only key witness in the murder case, the African student Taribo? And what does black businessman Willy Amadou have to do with the case? Only gradually do the inspectors discover that this is a dramatic father-daughter story in a literally dark milieu.

What Martin Felser fished out of the mailbox is not a sunny holiday greeting to Charlotte Lindholm, but a curious anonymous reference to a planned crime: "Come quickly - otherwise murder" is written on the postcard. A "Forte" energy bar is included, which Charlotte has analyzed in the KTU laboratory to be on the safe side. The result is alarming - the bar is actually poisoned. The public prosecutor responsible refuses to take the anonymous message seriously, but Charlotte's decision is clear: she travels to the sleepy village of Nordersiel on the North Sea, where the card was posted to prevent bad things from happening.
But theCommissioner arrives too late: Wolfgang Surdrup, owner of a small excursion boat, is in the hospital with severe symptoms of poisoning, and his death can no longer be prevented. Behind the idyllic facade of the sleepy tourist town, Charlotte Lindholm encounters tragic entanglements. The focus is on the choleric Roland Jellinek, partner of the poisoned Surdrup. Jellinek has been bullying his daughter Sandra and his wife Nynke for years, and he only spoke to his partner Surdrup when it was absolutely necessary. Charlotte knows how to prevent an act of desperation at the last moment, but the solution to the case is only apparently achieved. 

Managing Director Stefan Markowski was killed on the grounds of the "Atlantis" amusement park. Criminalists Ehrlicher and Kain discover strange digs near the roller coaster. In addition, threatening letters indicate that there are blackmail attempts in the popular park. When the inspectors are on the trail of the alleged blackmailer, Peter Radke, who has just been released from prison, he is found dead in a parking lot at the nearby bathing lake. In his trailera self-made map is hidden on which the coordinates of the amusement park, a new housing estate and an abandoned opencast mine are listed. Are the hiding places of the millions he had put aside marked on it and did he want to dig them out now? The detectives find out that Radke is behind some extortions - and the amusement park was not the only victim of extortion. Apparently, some people made some money from Radke's dirty dealings. 

The butcher couple Hans and Lisa Pietsch have been married for many years. They are popular and run a small butcher's shop in a part of Bremen. The sun and its moon – this is how the neighbors describe the couple. But since the accidental death of their daughter ten years ago, the happiness of the former dream couple has been crumbling. When the body of Sandra Wiemann – a young neighbor of the Pietschs – is found, everyone initially believes it was suicide. Helen, Inga Lürsen's daughter, is moving into exactly this apartment building and so Inga uses the opportunity to investigate "undercover" - to the displeasure of her colleague Stedefreund, who is in charge of these investigations himself. For Hans and Lisa, the dead woman was "like a daughter", the dead woman also helped the single mother next door, only the caretaker had turned her down.
All the neighbors get more and more entangled in their statements and suddenly Lisa and Hans not only have to face the questions from the police, but also the mistakes of their past. 

The building contractor Max Claudius breaks up with his house banker Robert Malberg and his sister Veronika after a business dinner. In the past, "Claudius AG" alienated many investors with a rapid drop in share price. A little later, Max Claudius is shot on the driveway to his villa. 16-year-old Lisa Hirlinger and her older brother Michael go out together in the evenings: cinema, ice cream and disco are all popular. On the way home, they find a gun near their house. That same night, the young farmer's wife Mila misses her husband on the Moosbach farm. The farmer Benedikt "Ben" Moosbach lost the farm he inherited in a stock deal with "Claudius AG". Shortly after he sold, the land was advertised as building land. Ben feels betrayed.
The death of her brother, the CEO of "Claudius AG", confronts the heiress Veronika with new decisions. Together with Max' personal assistant Albert Potter you look determinedly into the future. Max was a "philanthropist" and there can be no question of a conspiracy against small farmers and investors. The new S-Bahn line is to be built on the acquired land. This means that "Claudius AG" is back on a solid footing. Ministerial Director Zubrodt, one of the supervisory board members, encourages Veronika Claudius. The Munich detectives Franz Leitmayr, Carlo Menzinger and Ivo Batic follow the money trail in their investigations.
Where was Secretary Potter? What are Veronica's interests? She hands them a video: Ben Moosbach publicly accused Max of fraud and physically attacked him during a shareholders' meeting. At Moosbach's abandoned farm, officers find a jammer and a balaclava in the garbage can that were used in the murder of Max Claudius. Where did Benedikt Moosbach hide the murder weapon? When the commissioners want to arrest the suspect, Moosbach flees. Leitmayr wants to stop him with his gun, but he hesitates a fraction of a second too long. Completely surprisingly, Batic and Leitmayr are dismissed from the case. Police Director Huber tells them that the wanted Moosbach has obviously staged a bank robbery with hostage taking,
The bank robber holed up in the Malberg bank. One of the hostages is Lisa Hirlinger. A special task force takes up position. The bank robber demands money and a getaway car. In this precarious situation, Franz Leitmayr can be exchanged for a hostage in order to persuade Moosbach to give up. The situation in front of the bank is coming to a head. The Police Duties Act applies. Detective Director Huber gives the order for the final rescue shot. The course of the situation is programmed.

Not a particularly good day for Chief Inspector Borowski: the witness Scharndorf, a respected local authority, does not want to testify in a murder case so as not to jeopardize his reputation. When Borowski chained him up naked on the roof of a brothel to help him over the shame limit, it almost got him suspended, but at least it got him a few hours with the industrial psychologist Frieda Jung. On top of that, his daughter Carla shows up, who under no circumstances wants to travel with her mother and her new lover. But these are nothing compared to the final change that another person is heading for at this time: Lars Betz, divorced, one son, former seaman, now driver for a ship chandler, will lose his job, according to his boss, if he on that day is not on time.
That would be a loss too many for the unstable man. Betz gets caught in a speed trap and is flashed. That too can cost him his job. He asks the policeman Ebert to release the film - which he refuses. Betz rushes off, but Ebert follows him and dies under a truck. Betz flees. It is not a difficult investigation that leads Borowski and his assistant Alim Zainalow to the company of Betz's employer. But Betz cannot be seen in the photo. And actually it wasn't his tour. His boss Oliver Nagel should drive it. That's what Wächter says, Betz' second boss. A brief reprieve for Betz to say goodbye to his child. Who knows what's in store for him now. But Nagel will no longer be able to clear up the error. His body is found in the Timber Harbor.
Things could end lightly for Betz, but even his chief guardian doesn't want to cover for a murderer. Betz is arrested, the "cop killer". When Borowski continues to investigate, he earns the frustration and anger of his colleagues. Why does he think the cop killer is innocent? "And when," asks Borowski back, "did Ziehmann find out that we were looking for Nagel?" There are more questions. Why was Nagel, for example, at Scharndorf the day before? And did his companion, Warden, know about it? As the clues piled up, Betz suddenly confessed. Yes, he killed Nagel. But Borowski has long recognized that Betz is someone who needs to be saved from himself.

Summer is at its peak, tourists are bathing in Lake Constance and relaxation is the order of the day in the police department. Klara Blum plays boules on the lake shore with Jakob Leeb, with whom she has a warm friendship. Jakob is the butcher of Strasbourg's Jewish community and spends the summer in Constance, where he spent his childhood years before his family was expelled. The mood is relaxed, and so a rumor can only spoil the summer idyll slightly at first: A dead boy was allegedly seen at the Rodammers' campsite. The body has disappeared again, the witness has traveled further and no one is missing a teenager; Nevertheless, Klara Blum has traces secured to be on the safe side and questions Edgar Rodammer, who works as a supervisor on the pitch.
Edgar is easily disturbed and easily unsettled and cannot contribute anything that enlightens. Nevertheless, he refuses to let Klara look at his notes, in which he records the events of the day. The summery relaxation suddenly ends when the rumor becomes a fact: the dead boy is found in Jakob's front yard of all places. Immediately there are numerous voices that see the slaughterer as the culprit: Isn't the knife cut on the victim's neck suspiciously similar to the one that slaughterers use to kill their animals? Prosecutor Bux puts himself at the head of those who believe Jakob is the culprit. Neither the question of a motive nor the conspicuous place where it was found in the Leebsche Garten can dissuade Bux from his opinion.
Deep-seated anti-Semitic reflexes are awakened in him, which make the case appear very simple in its resolution. The old talk about Jews needing the blood of Christian children to prepare unleavened bread serves as a suitable motive for his murder. Klara is convinced that Jakob has nothing to do with the dead boy in his front yard. Not wanting to be put on the defensive, she insists on interrogating Edgar to find out what he's so desperate to hide. Much to the displeasure of Edgar's brother, Wolfgang Rodammer, who teams up with the prosecutor to protect his brother from interrogation. Klara, however, does not give up and fights for Jacob.

Open skull fracture is the finding of forensic pathologist Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers). A man's body is discovered near Lake Aasee. The first indication for Commissioner Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) are tire tracks in the mud. But instead of finding the perpetrator, this clue leads the investigator duo Thiel and Boerne to the identity of the victim. The murdered Wolfram Baermann was an engineer and successfully entered the windmill business with his longtime friend Klaus Weisberg (Harald Schrott). The young widow Rike Baermann (Julika Jenkins), a physiotherapist, describes her husband as an extremely withdrawn person who sometimes withdrew for days. Wolfram Baermann has suffered from depression since childhood .
When the forensics team comes across smudged remains of blood in the Baermanns' bedroom, it becomes clear that Wolfram Baermann was killed in his own bed. His wife is increasingly under suspicion. Somehow the Baermann family seems to have been struck by fate. A few days earlier, his father's second wife, Henner Baermann (Otto Mellies), died in the bathtub. And the sister Hanne (Jenny Schily) lives in a psychiatric clinic because she has obviously suffered from trauma since childhood. Prof. Boerne's detective curiosity is aroused, maybe Hanne is the key to the murder case. 

Midday in a subway station. A man suddenly falls in front of the oncoming train. Accident or Suicide? A woman claims he was pushed. But she is in shock and cannot remember any details. Another witness reports - Mr. Petzold, a banker. He soon seeks contact with Commissioner Charlotte Sänger again. Petzold finds their colleague Dellwo strange - especially when a second murder occurs...

Only a year ago, the famous opinion researcher and PR strategist Vera Maxheimer settled her institute in Saarbrücken, not least at the gentle urging of her old friend and fellow student Marion von Pahl, an entrepreneur worth millions. For Vera, the grande dame of German opinion polls, the circle closes: because the brilliant scientist grew up in Saarland, the child from the humblest of circumstances also began her studies in Saarbrücken. In Vera's institute, politicians and business bosses, church leaders and trade union officials hand in hand. The analyzes of the demoscop are considered the best in the industry. But there is a tiny black spot in Vera Maxheimer's past.
As a student, she worked for a few weeks as a call girl in a posh brothel near Saarbrücken. Now, 35 years later, small film recordings from that time are emerging. A student tasked with gathering material for a biography of Vera Maxheimer is murdered. Shortly thereafterbegins an extortion. A second murder occurs... Chief Inspector Max Palu from the Saarbrücken Criminal Police Office begins his investigations. He quickly finds out that old, blurry pornographic images are not the demoscop's problem. In the short weeks that Vera Maxheimer was working in the sex business, the head of the establishment disappeared without a trace - presumably the victim of a murder that has not yet been solved. Does Vera Maxheimer have anything to do with this case? Palu investigates in the demimonde of his hometown, but also in the environment of Vera Maxheimer.
In doing so, he has to realize that behind the scenes at the Maxheimer Institute, a power struggle over the successor to the boss has already broken out: what role does her ambitious daughter Anette play, how loyal is the managing director Ernst Wohlfahrt, what does her old friend and fellow student Marion von Pahl know ? Little by little, Palu uncovers the true secret of Vera Maxheimer. It's in the political milieu. It's about manipulated numbers, about maintaining power at any price...