When a singer is found murdered, with her scent glands excised from her body, detectives probe a group of friends who attended boarding school with her.
A boy feels neglected by his parents because they grieve for his older brother, who went missing in the aftermath of the second world war.
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
