Sometimes things can get quite complicated. A stranger appears before Pastor Hansen and claims to be a murderer. However, there is no body. Shortly after, a murder occurs, but there is no trace of the perpetrator. "We lack the murderer for the body, and we lack the body for the murderer," notes Chief Inspector Christoph Johannes from the Husum police. Are the two crimes connected? Together with his colleagues, the nosy pig Grosse Jäger and the ladies' man Mommsen, he faces a case that is becoming not only more mysterious but also increasingly dangerous. As the officers confront the depths of human despair, they themselves are being watched and followed. A new case for the Husum team, whose investigations have won the sympathy of readers with both heart and intellect.