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Canoe polo is a sport for well-trained daredevils like Paul Schott. When he takes part in a tournament on Lake Constance, his colleague Julia and Nele cheer him on with their children Johanna, Niklas and his friend Josh. But the enthusiasm turns to horror when an opposing player floats dead, headfirst, in his kayak... Paul, of all people, now blames himself badly for having attacked his opponent hard beforehand. However, the forensic medicine points to a new clue: the dead man had poison in his drinking bottle, which manipulates his sense of balance. But the motive is missing: did Noah's friend Josh really want to poison the math teacher because of the threat of bad grades? There are also lots of dead fish floating in Lake Constance. Nele soon identifies the solar module manufacturer Yannik Sattmann as the culprit. It is piquant that the committed canoe polo player is arguing loudly with Arne Holtkamp in the club. But a completely different abyss opens up for Nele. Their daughter Johanna is going to New Zealand for a year. Niklas is therefore already looking forward to life as an "only child".

The young woman, who was fished out of Lake Constance by a fisherman, floating lifeless, has obviously become the victim of a love drama. Nadja Koch was strangled by her secret lover Dennis Böhm after a loud argument. That is how the situation initially appears to the WaPo Bodensee. But Nele Fehrenbach has her son Niklas, who is taking part in an excursion with his art teacher Aline Schöttler called "Magical Morning Light" and is achieving such good results that the local newspaper reports on it with photos. Are the pictures so beautiful that Aline Schöttler's house is broken into and only the results of the excursion are stolen? Or do the pictures inadvertently contain the secret of Nadja Koch's murder? Because her husband Lars may have an alibi for the time of the crime, but he also has a secret lover, his colleague Jana Raspe. He allegedly wanted to separate from her in favor of his wife Nadja. But that only expands the circle of suspects.

The mafia on the idyllic Lake Constance? Together with her Swiss colleague, Captain Aubry, Nele is investigating organized crime at full speed after two water police officers were murdered. The first clue leads to the Italian shoe dealer Pucci, who is said to belong to the Calabrian mafia. But this is only the entrance to a "silk road" skillfully spun across Lake Constance by members of the 'Ndrangheta living in Constance. This was where goods and wanted mafiosi could be smuggled from Switzerland to Germany under the eyes of corrupt officials. When the head of the Konstanz Criminal Investigation Department, Gregor Heitmann, gets involved, it is clear that there must be other moles on the police side. Is Nele's friend Adrian Aubry one of them? He desperately protests his innocence. But the clues lead to him. When the only witness who could supposedly exonerate him, his boss Rita Neuhaus, is found shot dead - Aubry's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon - his game is over. Nele asks herself desperately: Have I fallen for a brutal Mafioso?

Lake Constance is considered the largest ship graveyard in Europe. This attracts treasure hunters from all over the world. And it is precisely such a treasure hunter that Pirmin Spitznagel and Paul Schott discover on their patrol. The diver Arno Gierke admits that he is missing both his partner and his boat. When the police find the boat in a nearby harbor, it becomes clear that the treasure hunters must have discovered something that they wanted to sell to the well-known goldsmith Ingo Kramm. But where is Gierke's partner? Meanwhile, Mechthild Fehrenbach tries to keep her daughter Nele from knowing that the roof of the house needs to be re-tiled and that she doesn't have the money to do it. She gambles online poker on the Internet. Everything seems to be going well. But in the middle of a lucky streak, Niklas restarts the router.

The body of a sporty young man is floating lifeless in the lake. When Nele and Paul rescue the already severely hypothermic surfer, all help comes too late. Daniel Dellbrück was the victim of targeted blows - with a paddle? In any case, Julia is deeply shocked when she recognizes her stand-up paddling (SUP) yoga teacher. She wants to give the news to his wife Catrin in person. Catrin is the sole heir to the SUP school and a large property that investors led by Manfred Tresko are also after. His son Ben finally resorts to a strategy of attrition. Things get tight again for the widow when Pirmin finds out that Daniel has drawn up a marriage contract. Did he not trust his wife? Meanwhile, at home, Mechthild Fehrenbach is suffering greatly from the death of a completely different creature: the neighbor's dog has died - after she had fed it meat tarts.

A routine procedure suddenly turns into a murder case. The animal that was seen floating in Lake Constance turns out to be a corpse in a fur costume with a carved wooden mask. Achim Tilger, the dead man, has had an unprecedented business downfall and is closely connected to Gregor Dachser, Julia's uncle, and his ex-wife Nadine Löwenstein through the carnival club "Die Teufelskerle". To the outside world, the carnival club presents itself as a happy family. It is thanks to Pirmin's accuracy that an obscure property sale is uncovered, for which Nadine Löwenstein, as chairwoman, had to sign and which favored her friend Achim Tilger. Case solved? Not quite. Meanwhile, Mechthild Fehrenbach is researching the family tree at home and infects her daughter Nele with it. But they are not at all happy with the result: the Fehrenbachs were not nobles. On the contrary.

Stressed city dwellers like to seek relaxation and contemplation within the walls of the Oberzell monastery on the island of Reichenau. Bestselling author Armin König also checked in here. But why? Nele and her team ask themselves after a fisherman from Lake Constance found the man's naked body in his nets - with a knife wound to the neck. Abbot Barnabas and his fellow brother Vadim also have no explanation for the murder and the disappearance of a half-finished manuscript from the monastery walls. But a monk, Max, becomes nervous at the sight of the police. Nele risks her life to meet Max secretly at night. He turns out to be a woman. But Melinda Appen does not reveal the reason for her masquerade. Instead, König's publisher Beate Klapproth reveals that her bestselling author was also on the run from female fans.

The shock could not have been greater for Katrin Jessmann and her husband Jost. Nele has to tell them the news of the tragic death of her son Lasse. The surfer drowned - and was obviously run over by a boat. A case for the police. The renter of the boat is quickly found: Tom Viersen wanted to enjoy a few hot moments on the lake with his girlfriend. He became a hit-and-run driver mainly because he is still out on parole. Paul Schott doesn't believe a word he says. But then the autopsy reveals that Lasse was the victim of a previously unknown, congenital heart defect. And Niklas lets his mother Nele in on the cult of young water sports enthusiasts who attract attention online with crazy stunts. The adrenaline junkies call themselves "Evil Friends".