If only Barbara Riedbiester had stayed on her sofa on that sweltering summer day, with her purring cat on her chest and the sounds of the Hanse Sail outside her window. But with a quadruple murder, a day off means nothing. Thus, the Rostock detective team Uplegger and Riedbiester meets at the Nienhäger Ghost Forest, where a Stockholm family has been brutally massacred. The crime scene looks as if it has been the site of a blood frenzy. It seems unlikely that only tourists were robbed here. Is it about old coins from Mecklenburg's Swedish era, which one of the victims was interested in, or does the murder have a sexual motive? When the daughter of a local construction company owner also goes missing without a trace, the investigators find themselves sweating not only from the high temperatures. A Goyke crime novel, dark and characteristically ironic, that one reads with trepidation.