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After a Chicago profiler training, young commissioner Hinnerk Feldmann accepts the deputy post in Theo Clüver's tiny, singular precinct covering German Frisian North Sea Island Sylt. A tourist lover couple accidentally drugs up in the dunes a 20 years old corpse, soon identified as equally long missing local then-teenager Maria, but her death could have been accidental. Shortly after, a local man is executed in cruel feudal-age fashion, tied onto a steering wheel in the dunes, but first drugged. The syringe is used again during the investigation, which closes in on has-been rock band Coast Pirates. Meanwhile Feldmann has a hard time dealing with the locals.
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An unknown dead woman is recovered from the sea. She was bound and thrown into the sea alive.
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A severed arm beaches up on Sylt island, probably cut off by a ship. The police gets the coast guard to search the main corpse. Theo Clüver's team suspect a link with the recent report of a corpse seen on a nearby hotel(s parking lot, reported to uniformed colleague Lund but it disappeared before he arrived. Theo Clüver and brilliant nerd colleague Hinnerk Feldmann, whom he pushes to offer lodgings to their detective Ina Behrendsen, whose demented grandfather burnt down her house, work out the uncooperative hotel owner Hannah Kronenhaben is the daughter of a jeweler killed in a robbery years ago, never properly solved, but probably committed by the victim and at least one member of his surfers gang. Attorney Sven Jansen, one of them, was preparing his yacht to lend it to the victim, a third surfer about to end his -him-only- jail sentence recently escaped and roams about, Cluver's acquaintance lawyer Hans Börschig needs pushing to cooperate, even after someone tries to torture Sven, probably for the still missing big loot. More crimes follow.
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Josef Wenzel and Bibi Lemberg's Nobel restaurant's star chef Nobu is found washed up on the beach, beaten and fatally shot. While Theo Clüver and Hinnerk Feldmann's police team works out Nobu made enemies, Bibi disappears from her blooded car, a huge ransom is demanded which Jozef' can't afford, but Theo blackmails the bank to put up a loan above the indebted restaurant's tax fraud proceeds. The ransom is collected brilliantly unnoticed, but the surprises keep coming.
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Sex club owner Ronny Klöcker's naked corpse is found at home by illegal Syrian cleaner Jamila after a fatal staircase fall, midst sex toys as used in a wild night with four hen night sluts, who claim to remember nothing. Klöcker's apparent self-asphyxiation is red out after a rape drug is found. Detective Hinnerk happened to end up with the quartet in the bride's home after a male strip act, his vague memories and lost cellphone pictures prove crucial. Clüver examines Jamila's teen son Amoud, the club's free-lance janitor Karmann whi moonlighted as male stripper and a party girl's obsessive stalker-ex Mark Seitz before bumping into a ghost from Ronnys dark past.
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Clüver and the deadly affair.
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Two drunk kids report they saw two men carrying a corpse. Clüver does not believe them until Hinnerk tracks down the owner of an expensive watch: a missing personal trainer who lived in an apartment owned by rich council president König.
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While newly-independent realtor Susanna Wagner show the rich Swiss family Tönss, which specially flow in, a luxury villa on Sylt, their inquisitive pre-teen son Joshua finds the owner's corpse in a garbage big in the garden house. Hinnerk commiserates with foxy Susanna Wagner and is seduced into an affair. Her former employer Bendix Böckelmann may have arranged revenge for her treason costing him such a fat account, but it's more complex as it's in a large zone of the area fit for a nearly-arranged major development around a nudist colony and its tycoon CEO, who has a colorful record and vast real estate empire. Hinnerk is up for a scary surprise. Clüver meanwhile resolves to resign after the case, to spend time with his long-neglected family.
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Nerdy Hinnerk Feldmann is unpleasantly impressed, unlike bossy housemate Ina Behrendsen, by their new leading detective, Cluver's successor chief commissioner Carl Sievers, who shuttles by train form big city Kiel to their island Sylt. Next day Gunnar Schneider, a uniformed Kiel PD chief commissioner, is found murdered in a hotel on the island, where 30 000 Euro and a camera holding pictures of gastronome Oliver Kruse are found. Sievers proves himself competent to Hinnerk and Ina but doesn't confide into them about his imposed transfer to Sylt. Suspected drug dealer Kruse may have been blackmailed by Schneider. Sievers finds in Kiel a link to Schneider's deadly hit and run a few months earlier. Pre-teen victim's mother Sandy Freyer is in residential therapy, but disappeared three days ago, probably hiding on Sylt where her wheelchair-ridden sister Pia Freyer lives. How do Gunnar Schneider, the Freyers, Kruse and marina boat rental manager Dennis Mager link to the cases?
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On the beach of Sylt a female corpse is found. The young woman was draped in a beach chair. The trail leads into a retirement home. Soon there will be an arrest.
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Ina Behrendsen's new partner is found murdered on the beach. The police officer is suspected because the seal rescuer was killed with her jack. When Feldmann secretly investigates, a dispute arises.
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Sievers has decided to rent a small house on Sylt. But shortly before the handover of the keys, his new landlord is murdered.
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A new case leads Carl Sievers and his team to a boarding school on Sylt. Hinnerk Feldmann accidentally witnesses the teacher, Stefan Conrad, fall to his death during a physics experiment.
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A car with a dead man at the wheel appears on the receding tide off Sylt. A new case for Inspector Sievers and his colleagues.
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Klaus Berger is found crushed to death by an angel statue in his hotel room. A very personal case for Carl Sievers.
Ina Behrendsen
Hinnerk Feldmann
Carl Sievers
Rechtsmedizinerin
Tabea Krawinkel
Polizist Schneider
Theo Clüver
Sven Lund
Silke Engelhardt
Wirt Boje