You don’t want to do it, but your desire for murder is stronger than you.
A surgeon stabs a patient’s heart in a bizarre frenzy during an operation. A young man is publicly beaten to death in Hamburg. An estate agent is cut down in a bloody orgy of violence.
A series of gruesome murders rattles the nation. While the culprits are quickly caught, their motives remain a mystery – they all say they have no idea what came over them.
Based in Hamburg, detective superintendent Nina Salomon suspects that the murders are somehow connected. It can’t be a coincidence, she reasons, that in all three cases, the murderers and victims didn’t know each other. Is it possible that someone else could have sparked those murderous intentions? But how? Together with her colleague Daniel Buchholz, himself plagued by personal problems, she begins to research the victims’ most intimate secrets to find something that connects them. They hit on a discovery that casts a new light on something that many of us rely on in our daily lives...
