Law or justice, life or death - the new No. 1 bestseller by Nele Neuhaus The body of a young girl is found behind a Marian altar in a field near Schwalbach. The body is covered in a layer of ice; temperatures at night had been around -10° C. The 16-year-old Larissa Böhlefeld was strangled to death. Pia Sander and Oliver von Bodenstein begin their investigation and a DNA analysis leads them to suspect Farwad M., a rejected Afghan asylum seeker who was recently sentenced to five years in prison. However, he was able to go into hiding when he was released from custody following a prison appeal. The public is outraged. Unknown persons throw Molotov cocktails at refugee hostels, the residents are in mortal fear. Then a man is hit and killed by a car on a country road in Hintertaunus. His body is covered in bite wounds and his face is disfigured. The man can be identified from fingerprints; he had negligently killed a pregnant woman and had just been released from prison. What did he run away from and who has beaten him up like this? Pia and Bodenstein come across more and more mysterious deaths and missing persons cases. But every lead leads to a dead end ...