Stahl investigates again - it gets even darker A grand hotel, an island - and a murder that changes everything On the North Sea island, a young woman disappears without a trace from the grand hotel. A little later, her body is found at the lighthouse - naked, disfigured, with a missing eye. A "vacation" that is not a "vacation" - and more gruesome murders A case for ex-inspector Stahl, who has moved to his new partner Geli in the Odenwald. Since Geli has been longing for a break together for a long time, he disguises the assignment as a luxury vacation. But instead of romantic relaxation, cruelly mutilated corpses await him. A corpse without an eye. Two detectives without a trace. And more suspects than you can count. Together with the inexperienced island inspector Böhm, Stahl hunts down the perpetrator. Are they on the trail of a bestial serial killer? Stahl goes to the window, pushes the curtain aside and looks out into the hotel park. 'You have to understand the psyche of the murderer. He wanted to be very close to his victim before he killed her. He stayed under her bed for hours. Motionless. Like a scorpion.' He turns to the hotel manager. 'I can't say with one hundred percent certainty, but we have to take into account that he took a liking to it. And could do it again.' The new gloomy page-turner of the SPIEGEL bestselling author