In the charged political climate of the early 1930s, Jennifer Stevenson seeks to uncover the background of a scandal. Two policewomen are said to have voluntarily taken their own lives. Could they not withstand the power struggles within the female criminal police, or were they murdered? Jennifer's investigations take her from Hamburg to Pellworm, where the bodies were found. Soon, she realizes that she is not the only outsider on the island. The novel tells the true story of a Hamburg police scandal from 1931, the circumstances of which were never clarified. Brack is interested in describing the world as he sees it: defined by greed and lust for power, jealousy, and betrayal. Tobias Gohlis.