No witnesses, no crime scene, no body. It was supposed to be his big day: at the state garden show in Öhringen, the young talented star chef Olaf Ben Struck was to be awarded his second star. But the stage remains empty. Chief Inspector Karl Friedrich von Bühl and his young colleague Maria-Lena Dambach uncover a gruesome trail and investigate a case that sends shivers down the spines of even the most hardened detectives.