Summary A severed arm beaches up on Sylt island, probably cut off by a ship. The police gets the coast guard to search the main corpse. Theo Clüver's team suspect a link with the recent report of a corpse seen on a nearby hotel(s parking lot, reported to uniformed colleague Lund but it disappeared before he arrived. Theo Clüver and brilliant nerd colleague Hinnerk Feldmann, whom he pushes to offer lodgings to their detective Ina Behrendsen, whose demented grandfather burnt down her house, work out the uncooperative hotel owner Hannah Kronenhaben is the daughter of a jeweler killed in a robbery years ago, never properly solved, but probably committed by the victim and at least one member of his surfers gang. Attorney Sven Jansen, one of them, was preparing his yacht to lend it to the victim, a third surfer about to end his -him-only- jail sentence recently escaped and roams about, Cluver's acquaintance lawyer Hans Börschig needs pushing to cooperate, even after someone tries to torture Sven, probably for the still missing big loot. More crimes follow.

• Crime