The village falls victim to a seemingly random series of ceramic garden statue explosions.

A mentally unstable employee holds a black bear cub hostage at the zoo.

Nerves are on edge as a biker convention rolls through the village.

An amateur actor is shot dead on stage.

A body is found in a small chapel just outside of Sophie's jurisdiction, and she finds herself having to share the case with the son of her predecessor.

Sophie investigates when a bar band's roadie is found dead.

The owner of a hardware store is found dead.

Sophie and the gang are hot on Marilyn's trail.

It's supposed to be farewell to Sophie as she's headed back to Cologne to work there, but she's called to the hospital as her father is ill. Meanwhile there's a murder back in the Eifel which Bärbel and Dietmar start to investigate without inspiring much confidence.

Sophie must solve the mystery of an electrician found with an inexplicable head injury.