The third thriller by Catherine Shepherd takes you into the depths of human depravity. Another encounter between past and present that you will not forget. Zons 1496: A terrible curse ends Elisa's young life before she can hold her newborn twin sons in her arms. Bastian Mühlenberg of the Zons city guard initially suspects nothing of the dark family secret that weighs on the brothers. When the blacksmith is found dismembered with counterfeit gold coins outside the city wall and the peaceful town is shaken by a new series of murders, Bastian Mühlenberg takes up the trail of the killer. Piece by piece, he is drawn into a sinister conspiracy that threatens the life of his family. Present day: The brutal murder of a prostitute leads Commissioner Oliver Bergmann to his third major case in Zons.