After the Spiegel bestseller** 'The Murderer's Archive', a new feel-good crime thriller to puzzle along. Now there is a reunion with Aunt Frances and Annie: The aunt collected secrets, the niece solves crimes! Now the murder archive in London is needed**. Aunt Frances had a knack for secrets, but no heart for murderers. She even studied the latter and knew her way around very well - as did her niece Annie. The crime writer and amateur investigator lives on her deceased aunt's country estate in the idyllic Castle Knoll. During a visit to London with her mother Laura, an artist, Annie makes a gruesome discovery: the assistant lies dead in her mother's discarded paintings. And her heart was taken from her. Is it a coincidence that Annie's mother recently had an animal heart placed in front of her door and since then she has only been capturing hearts on the screen? In her aunt Frances' diary, Annie gets on the trail of an old murder case: At that time, too, the victim, a good friend of Frances's, had her heart snatched from her. Are the two cases connected? Could Annie's mother even be the murderer? And who should have their hearts snatched from them next? Annie investigates with acumen and the immensely valuable notes of her aunt from Swinging London in the sixties.