he successful author Eva Almstädt was born and raised in Hamburg and has been writing with enthusiasm since she was a child and teenager. When writing, she sticks to the motto "The main thing is the sea". Her crime thriller about Lübeck detective Pia Korittki was the start of a series whose titles are regularly on the bestseller lists. Eva Almstädt has been writing another crime series set in the North Sea since 2022. The investigators are lawyer Fentje Jacobsen and journalist Niklas John.
In the fourth part of "The North Sea File: The Last Sermon", a pastor in Estherwieck is found dead in the mudflats. Drowned. Was it an accident? The day before, he had preached an unusually indignant sermon and the police have to assume foul play. The investigation takes a new turn when a former girlfriend who had visited the pastor the day before is reported missing. Niklas John comes under suspicion because he had met the young woman on the evening of her disappearance. When her remains are found near an old naval chapel and Niklas cannot dispel his suspicions, he asks Fentje Jacobsen for help as his lawyer. Can the two of them find the real murderer together?
