On his morning drive to work, Jerry discovers the body of a young woman who has been strangled. The victim worked as a physical therapist at the winter sports training center. Two ski jumpers quickly become the focus of the investigation. Both the athletes and their coach, who had a relationship with the victim, reject the suspicion against them. Beissl and Jerry also encounter further resistance: the jumpers' mothers do everything they can to torpedo the investigation against their sons.

Despite all the interventions, Beissl and Jerry manage to uncover the background to the crime. A few days before the murder, the two jumpers were driving with the murder victim at night – and hit a pedestrian. Instead of taking care of the seriously injured person, they committed a hit-and-run. The next day, the murdered woman was overcome with guilt. She wanted to report the accident – and was killed on her way to the police. Who became the murderer to prevent a scandal? The two jumpers come under increasing pressure.

Georg Reitinger, a journalist at the Berchtesgadener Anzeiger newspaper, is found dead under a bridge. Beissl and Jerry learn from Sissi Fischer, an intern at the newspaper, that Reitinger had recently been receiving anonymous calls and threats. Could his death be related to his work as a journalist?

Johanna is particularly keen to solve this case. Reitinger was her colleague. She secretly begins to investigate herself. The detectives discover that Reitinger had recently uncovered an environmental scandal in the Auerbach Au. But the ongoing investigation proves difficult. All the suspects seem to have alibis.

Only when it turns out that Reitinger had been writing restaurant reviews on a local blog do Beissl and Jerry make progress in this tricky case. An unfinished review by Reitinger leads them to the restaurant "Nouvelle Cuisine," among other places, where things are not quite right...