He wanted to reach for the pepper spray, but he didn't have the chance. Lars Blank only saw the shadowy figure of a man, saw that the man raised his arm, that he held a gun in his hand, his index finger on the trigger. Far away, Blank heard a bang. Something is really going wrong in my life, was his last thought. Crime scene Planken: How did the body end up in the upscale leather boutique? Who is behind the series of attacks on the Mannheim public transport system? Why is the old neighbor dead in her bean patch? Are the numerous deaths in the "Maria Segen" nursing home just a coincidence? And then there's also a brutal murder in picturesque Feudenheim... Chilling suspense and winking irony alternate in the twenty new Mannheim murder stories. What remains is a gentle horror when the lights go out. Word wizard Walter Landin, who has been awarded multiple times.