The 5th case for the Friesian investigative team Folkmer and Tjark Wolf: Sven Koch fascinates his readership with a story of revenge set around the collective guilt of a village community on the Friesian North Sea coast, around xenophobia and personal secrets of individuals who thought they knew their fellow men. A crime case set against the backdrop of contemporary German history after the fall of the Iron Curtain and, of course, against the magnificent North Sea coast.
A horse ripper is on the loose in Werlesiel, the small fishing and tourist site on the Friesian North Sea coast. When people also begin to die, it becomes apparent that the villagers harbour a terrible secret. A secret that the specialist investigative team around Tjark Wolf and Femke Folkmer have to solve. The events take them back to the time when the Iron Curtain fell and – as now – refugees were pouring into Germany. Where they weren’t always welcome …
