A politician at the edge of an abyss. A TV journalist searching for the truth. A fatally ill detective who lives for his final case.
When Member of the Bundestag Christian Wagner is found hanged in his Berlin flat, Sarah Wolf refuses to believe that it’s a suicide. Sarah hosts a TV politics show, and had begun a relationship with Christian only weeks previously. Christian had been accused by a tabloid newspaper of working as a lobbyist for the Samax corporation, which runs several hospitals. A PR and career disaster, it’s true, but surely not enough to make him kill himself… Searching for the truth, she begins to sift through his papers and soon finds a document about a refugee camp in Kenya. She is forced to ask herself how well she really knew the man she thought she loved.
Meanwhile, the body of a woman is recovered from a lake near Düsseldorf. Inspector Paul Sellin discovers that Johanna Kling was in contact with Christian Wagner just before her death. What links the deceased 29-year-old environmental activist with the politician? Sellin must solve this case, regardless of cost. He’s seriously ill and this case may well be his last...
