Barbara Gruber, a colorful figure in the local Berchtesgaden political scene, is found murdered in her home shortly before the state elections. Shortly before her death, she had crashed the party of her political opponent Volker Haas. Did he eliminate his unwelcome rival?

Her sister Christa Gruber directs suspicion toward the married architect Hans Wörne, with whom Barbara had been having an affair until six months ago. But Christa herself also comes under suspicion, as she wanted to sell their parents' house to Volker Haas, her sister's arch-enemy. And then Ghali Bassir appears, a refugee whom Barbara Gruber wanted to marry. Calculation or love?

Hotelier Thorsten Enzinger is found dead in the kitchen of the hotel restaurant in the morning. Beissl and Jerry begin to investigate and quickly discover that the ownership structure surrounding the hotel is more than opaque.

Christian Bichler, the victim's brother-in-law, has a double motive for murder, as he now inherits the entire hotel. The suspicion against him is relieved by his fiancée Felicitas Beck. The deceased made advances towards her and stalked her. But then Bichler himself becomes the victim of an attack. Apparently, this was not aimed at him, but at his fiancée Felicitas, whose dubious past is increasingly becoming the focus of the detectives' investigations.