A crime novel set in the hunting milieu. Near Hermannsburg, a hunter is found dead under a high seat, impaled on a harrow. The number nine is emblazoned on the victim's forehead. The next day, a huntress dies in the Hannover Zoo, crushed by a trailer. She too has a number found on her, an eight. Robert Mendelski and Maike Schnur from the Celle Criminal Police are faced with a mystery. And the next corpse, marked with the number seven, is not long in coming...