High Society Murder

The psychologist Dr. Wendelin Winter travels to Sweden with his pretty daughter Alexandra. Winter is scheduled to give a lecture on hunting at Lund University. In order to prepare, he has accepted the generous invitation of the wealthy shipyard and landowner Gunnar Larsson, who organizes a traditional moose hunt with friends and relatives. Meanwhile, Alexandra has joined the good-looking environmental activist Ole, who has organized an outdoor camp nearby. When the hunting party wants to leave the next day, Winter experiences a surprise: Determined animal rights activists, including Ole and his daughter Alexandra, want to prevent the moose hunt with a human chain. But the heathers have their means to keep annoying demonstrators at bay. As soon as they are on the prowl, the inexperienced winter loses touch with the hunting party. Wandering around alone, he hears a scream and finds a lifeless body on the forest floor. Then a blow hits him in the back of the head. When he comes to, the supposed corpse has disappeared without a trace. The next day, Larsson's friend and business partner Malte Hendriksson was found dead with a gunshot wound. Commissioner Svensson assumes a hunting accident. Winter is not so sure about that, however. The soul doctor has since found out that Larsson had a motive for murder: he knew about the relationship between his pretty wife Lisa and Hendriksson. Larsson's sister Helena, who was once shamefully abandoned by the womanizer Hendriksson, also had a motive. Helena's daughter Birge also had good reason to send Hendriksson to hell: the beautiful young woman has been in a wheelchair since a car accident in which Hendriksson was not innocent. The only thing that Winter isn't quite sure about is the grumpy estate manager Pelle.

Dr. Wendelin Winter visits daughter Alexandra's shared Hamburg student apartment. Shy, nerdy housemate Felix worries rightly when the third, music student Maike Südhoff, whom he adores despite being treated like a sweet baby brother, doesn't return from another nocturnal private cello recital, as her corpse is found by their dog on Wendelin's walks, dumped near the river Elbe. Maike's computer confirms Winter's suspicion: she paid for her studies as call-girl with exclusive escort-service "Bella Musica". One of the three 'sponsors' and regular clients is Senator (city state minister) for culture Konrad Niehaus, who found her skull-smashed in his hall after a wild night in his home attended by his playmates, judge Julius Arndt and jeweler Steven Reinbeck. While Niehaus is arrested as prime suspect, Arndt and Reinbeck are bloodily murdered. Commissioner Kliewer suspects Maike's recently jail-released brother Uwe Südhoff, but Winter looks into the madam and her surprise visitor: Clara Niehaus, whom her husband assumed on holiday in Sylt, actually in a Hamburg hotel and aware, yet supportive of his career. Alexandra finds an alarming clue in the laundry.

Delicatessen king and big spender-Casanova Hans-Georg Fischer floats dead in his pool, apparently with a fatal cocaine OD, actually laced with lethal rat poison strychnine. Dr. Wendelin Winter must assess unwilling fresh widow Witwe Regine's mental condition. Cynical hedonist Fischer openly cheated on his wife, who keeps the business floating, and was equally gross to latest mistress Ariane Jäger, who nearly bumped into Wendelin's car fleeing from the pool on the fatal day, and has a jealous ex, emergency doctor Dr. Lohmeyer. Vegetables grocer Karl Baumgartner hated Fischer and concocted with gay florist Bernd Zeisinger, who spoils his gorgeous but unfaithful assistant Nicky Huber with the proceeds of a toxic side business. Gutter reporter Jacki Gosser took pictures of the adulterer in action and wants the intern; Winter's daughter Alexandra, to elaborate the boulevard scandal. An attempt on Zeisinger's life helps Winter complete the puzzle of crimes.

Wendelin Winter worries as vindictive 'Madonna-murderer' Manfred Borchert, jailed after his psychiatric testimony, is reported escaped from psych ward. Winter's brat daughter Alexandra moves out unexpectedly to in Starnberg as independent reporter, researching well-reputed plastic surgeon professor Rheza Hamadin and his private clinic, attracting socialites, but questions about his two years missing wife Silvia's portrait make him retract permission to publish. Nearby is found the corpse of rich ex-patient Susanne Sachtleben. Alexandra prefers to father's 'meddling' help charming neighbor Stefan Kroninger, a publicity photographer. To Winter 's horror, Borchert informs him of the murder of another plastic surgery patient, heiress Eleonore Pfitzer, and points to womanizing yachting club-president Christian Hartlaub, her kept lover. Alexandra stumbles upon 'ghost' Silvia Hamadin, Borchert again cues Wendelin Winter.

Wendelin Winter and daughter Alexandra booked an Ostsee luxury wellness hotel. He can't resist visiting the nearby stud-farm of his wealthy self-dismissed ex-patient from years ago, Rita Theisen. The repeatedly divorced millionaire plans to marry much younger, gorgeous Ricky Römer, to her adult, spoiled parasitic children Johannes and Sophia's horror, who hope to block the gold-digger. Alexandra finds Ricky in the private chapel, fatally shot. Theisen estate manager Max Warnecke, Sophia's adulterous lover, is arrested, but Rita asks Wendelin Winter to help find another killer. He suspects the just-hired maid Carmen, Ricky's cahoot. Johannes makes a fatal fall, failing to run over his mother by motorbike.

For Wendelin Winter, a Munich native, Berlin is not really worth a trip. But when his daughter Alexandra accepts a job as a capital correspondent, he spontaneously accepts the job offer from his old school friend Walter Königstein. As a psychological consultant, Winter is supposed to help the conservative Berlin top candidate Gerhard Becker to improve his image. Thanks to this job, Wendelin is close to his daughter, who has found affordable accommodation in the vacant room in the shared flat of Walter's press officer Tanja Richter. However, he and Alexandra are now on different sides: she as a critic of politics and he as its representative. Wendelin has barely started his work when Tanja drives her car into the Spree and drowns. This was hardly an accident, because the young woman was buckled up in the passenger seat. Wendelin notices that his friend Walter not only had a professional relationship with the attractive Tanja. But the married top politician Becker also apparently had an affair with the dead woman - who was four months pregnant. The role of the shady unionist Hans-Peter Rogge, who wanted to recruit Tanja as an employee, is also unclear. After Alexandra finds the body of the fortune teller Marianna, with whom Gerhard Becker and Tanja had been in contact, Wendelin and his daughter continue the investigation together. The two come across a thicket of power, affairs and dark secrets.

Reluctantly, psychiatrist Wendelin Winter accepts a short interim for a colleague at the Tegernsee, while daughter Alexandra joins a wild party. Eager to keep an eye on her, he's happy when commissioner Ackermann asks him back him for a murder in Münich. Schlager-song star Ronny König is prime suspect for the murder in a hotel elevator of a pushy fan who stalked him. Attending his next concert, Wendelin witnesses wheelchair-ridden ex-singer Romana threatening to expose Ronny's old secret, a day before she's found drowned in her pool. Lush Ronny's devoted manager Maximilian makes a confession which doesn't convince Wendelin. His colleague's patient file include Ronny's stalker-obsessive crone fan-club president Gudrun Kessler.

Winter's Tubingen university mentor, psychology professor Johannes Silberberg, asks favorite-ever student Wendelin, who politely declines, to write his biography from his secret journal. Shortly afterward Silberberg die from cardiac arrests, the diary is missing also from his stately home. Fresh widow Marlene only shows interest in his former assistant, flirtatious Dr. Florian Stemmle, and wants her step-daughter Clara gone within days, but the testament leaves it and more to Clara. Johannes had a long illicit affair with student Luise Bartels who is missing for 8 years. Wendelin daughter Alexandra's car breakdown earns her an affair with studly mechanic Jens, who finds the diary in Stemmle's also towed car, and it mention Luise Bartels was pregnant, no father, and her commitment to evangelical pastor Simon Seeger and his choir. Danger is lurking, the killer is ready to strike again.

TV chef Max Loderer, whose autobiography Wendelin Winter's daughter Alexandra, which moved back home, was to ghostwrite, is fatally stabbed in his kitchen, shortly after missing dishwasher Amadu was murdered in his wretched apartment, being a cocaine courier. Wendelin sleuths, even in Santa suit, along with Alex and her cop boyfriend, detective commissioner Donald Becker. Max had left his wife and restaurant service chief Christiane Loderer for his ambitious younger TV sidekick and PR agent Dana Stamm but had doubts, paparazzo Bernhard Hase blackmailed him with pictures. Italian restaurateur Atillio Parilla publicly threatened recipe-thief Max. .

Finding his rich partner murdered in her stately home, ex-con Josef Stürzelmeyer -13 years for murdering his abusive dragon wife- flees from the police to psychiatrist Wendelin, having failed to reach his lifelong buddy, tax employee Max Müller-Moorbach. Winter reluctantly grants his amnesiac client discrete 'shelter' in the garden shed and starts sleuthing, crossing paths -also again- with police detective in charge Donald Becker, who wants his profiling help, and his own brat daughter Alexandra Winter, who 'reports' on the case's 'human interest' for her new sponsored blog, while those two have a budding affair.* Becker also suspects the greedy cousin-heir Lars Elsässer. Abduction and theft conduct to the finale, when truth time turns tables.

Reporter Alex Winter, daughter of the (police) psychiatrist Wendelin Winter wants to write an article about the confessed and convicted serial killer Gerd Granitzka. Digging into the 3 murders for which Granitzka is convicted they soon find several big holes in the burden of proof. They confront the murderer himself, the police psychiatrist, the police officer, who worked on the cases and the DA who sampled the burden of proof and find themselves in a dark web spinning almost out of control. Alex and her friend the police detective Don Becker find more and more proof that Granitzky didn't commit the murders but probably a witness, who as it turns out, testified in all 3 cases. To silence Dr. Winter they have him committed in the same ward as Granitzky and then the ever clever Wendelin Winter can work on Granitzka.

Wendelin Winter (Fritz Wepper) is still concerned about the suicide of his former patient Veronika Eichner, wife of the Munich businessman Dr. Bernhard Eichner. Now he is called to help at a dinner with prosecutor Sabine Karmann (Charlotte Schwab). Oliver Kaspari (Jacob Matschenz) fears for the life of his girlfriend Anna Eichner (Sinja Dieks), the daughter of the late Veronika. Winter leaves immediately and finds Anna in a very confused state. Oliver had given her sleeping pills to help her calm down a bit. Anna is barely responsive. Wendelin tries to grasp the situation when Anna, almost as if she were somnambulizing, pulls a pistol out of a handbag that, as it later turns out, was used to murder her father that evening. Much to the displeasure of Inspector Donald Becker (Wayne Carpendale), psychologist Winter is once again in the middle of a murder case. The police investigation is initially directed against Eichner's business partner, Oliver Kaspari's father, and Anna. When Eichner's former driver Kurt Rispinger (Stefan Lehnen) breaks into the company and is arrested shortly afterwards, he also comes under suspicion. Anna is initially exonerated by Oliver's statement that the two were together all evening. He seems very attached to Anna and is very worried. Oliver seeks advice from Winter's daughter Alexandra (Sophie Wepper), who researches the Eichingers' company relationships and critically observes her father's behavior in this case. He has now found out more about Anna. The young woman has been taking tablets for years. They are the same ones her mother took and can cause partial memory loss. Did Anna only act under the influence of this drug? When Oliver suddenly retracts his statement, she is now at the center of the investigation. However, when Winter manages to relieve her, her life is actually in danger. And Alexandra Winter is now also under serious threat.

Dr. Winter can hardly believe it: Chief Inspector Becker asks him for support in a murder case. Of course not as an investigator, but in his job as a psychiatrist. Winter is supposed to talk to nine-year-old Tommi, who must have seen his father's murderer and is in shock. Although time is of the essence, family conflicts make treatment more difficult: the desperate mother is no longer allowed to approach her son since the divorce and the grandmother is ruthless in ensuring compliance with the court's order. In order to obtain an exception, Winter agrees to a deal with prosecutor Karmann, who is concerned about his poor health: if she supports him, he will retire after the case. This time, for once, Winter does not interfere in the work of Chief Inspector Becker, who is targeting the murdered man's brother and main rival, the major brewer Mantler. Meanwhile, Alexandra wants to push her internet blog with an exclusive story about the bitter brewery war and secretly accesses information from Winter's smartphone. In doing so, she suspects her father of having violated his duty of confidentiality and puts the little witness Tommi in danger. Now Winter has to mobilize all reserves to solve his last case.