Charlotte Linke is one of Germany's most successful writers. She has been reaching an audience of millions at home and abroad with her crime novels for over 30 years. She was nominated for the German Book Prize in the fiction category for "Am Ende des Schweigens".
Jessica has only recently joined a group of old friends who have been spending all their vacations together for years. They are three couples who find respite from everyday life on an idyllic estate in Yorkshire. This year, however, their peace and quiet is disturbed by a strange man. An unpleasant man, run-down, nervous, very aggressive. At first he just creeps around the property, turns up abruptly, swears. Then one evening he appears at the door and claims to have an inheritance right to the house, which he now demands. When Jessica returns a few days later from one of her beloved walks, she is confronted with a scene of horror. The bodies of her friends lie in front of the house, in the kitchen and in the bedrooms, covered in blood. All but her stepdaughter Ricarda, her boyfriend Leon and her friend Evelin have been murdered.
The main suspect? Has an alibi ...