Shattered (Prequel to Cut Off)

Forensic expert Paul Herzfeld is irritated when his superior, Prof. Schneider, surprisingly  commits himself to a machete as a murder weapon during the autopsy of a dismembered female body. The autopsy assistant also appears unusually nervous and agitated. And indeed, the blood-stained murder weapon appears shortly afterwards in a park in Kiel: an artistically decorated machete. The media immediately hail as a forensics genius; his rise to director of forensic medicine in Kiel seems a mere formality. But then the institute’s janitor confesses to Herzfeld that he has seen the machete before and that the dead woman is no stranger to him...

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