The seventh volume of the Eifel series. Siggi Baumeister stumbles into the most difficult case of his career. Why is a harmless bum from Cologne shot in the Salmwald? How does a long-legged blonde from Düsseldorf with a disturbing hole in her skin end up in a high forest in the Eifel south of Gerolstein? Why does a healthy construction contractor fall four meters from a high seat and break his back? And how is it possible that an eighty-year-old lawyer shoots two wild boars from a hundred meters away in two seconds, even though he can't recognize his own face in the mirror while shaving in the morning? Hunting fever in the Eifel, and Baumeister, along with retired criminal councilor Rodenstock, Dinah, and Emma, are faced with riddles.