WaPo Bodensee

For Nele Fehrenbach, a water police officer who has just moved from Hamburg to Lake Constance, her new job could not have gotten off to a more mysterious start. A yacht drifting aimlessly along the shore is covered in bloodstains. Then the body of the yacht's owner is found near the shore. Several people had an interest in Mr. Kleber's death.

Lake Constance: a haven for illicit money. When old Politz's boat explodes in the middle of the night on the lake, it quickly becomes clear that this cannot be an accident. Even though Nele's colleague Andreas Rambach believes that the boat was only held together by “oil and spit,” evidence of smuggling soon emerges. The boat was blown up with an explosive device.

It's a good thing that Nele listens to her mother Mechthild from time to time. She tells her daughter that every family is only as strong as its weakest link. And that turns out to be the key to solving her latest case. Because after Nele and Spitznagel discover a destroyed rail nest in the reeds in front of the Rau guesthouse, a very strange story unfolds.

Niklas has a crush and doesn't come home until five in the morning. His mother Nele confronts him about it, which Noah and Grandma Mechthild find completely incomprehensible. But this time, Nele is dealing with a strange case. The body of a groom was found on the shore of Lake Constance, killed on what was supposed to be the happiest night of his life.

A burning canoe on Lake Constance brings Nele and her colleague Andreas Rambach onto the scene - a young woman burned to death inside it. Corinna Weingold had been living as a dropout on Professor Herbert Zittlau's property and was suffering from an incurable brain tumor. Nevertheless, the Wapo investigates because the deceased did not die as a result of the tumor.

Because the boat pulling him suddenly had engine trouble, waterskiing student Marvin had an accident and is now fighting for his life in the hospital. His buddy Lukas blames himself. Pirmin Spitznagel quickly realizes that this is the latest crime committed by a serial offender who has already disabled a string of boats belonging to a yacht club.