Summary Commissioner Krüger is packed to leave the Spreewald for good, when he must take charge of a new case, the arson of hotel Wotschofska in Hochwald, reduced to a ruin where the corpse is found of Engel, he was killed before he burned. Suspects include hotel owner Karsten Hellstein and his beloved Tina Engel, the adulterous new widow. Past secrets prove crucial, spelling another crime, as the hotel and its potential for a new luxury project involve investors and Serbian Vladislav Bratic, Lisa's recently returned lover who fled abroad after another failed plot ten years earlier and proves a dangerous prey for Fichte's uniformed men.

• Crime