A gripping crime novel about the depths of the human soul. The probably most well-known inmate of the Lübeck prison Lauerhof is dead. Ralf Blum, convicted thirty years ago for the abuse and murder of an eight-year-old boy, bled to death in his cell. When there are indications that Blum was threatened before his alleged suicide, Chief Inspector Birger Andresen and his colleague Ida-Marie Berg take over the investigation and find themselves caught in a whirlwind of revenge and conspiracies that reach into the highest political circles of Schleswig-Holstein.