A song. A murder. Twenty years of silence. The past has a melody. And anyone who hears it is in danger. In the fall of 1997, a young woman is found dead on the Wilzenberg, murdered by a single stab in the heart. The perpetrator leaves no traces, only a music box that quietly plays 'Hush little baby'. Why did she only wear a thin red dress despite the icy cold? Why doesn't anyone want to know anything about the guesthouse in the forest where she worked? The investigations come to nothing. The case disappears. Silence wins. Until, decades later, a reporter begins to pick up the threads again and comes across a web of lies, covered up traces and a system that protects what should remain hidden. When a second woman dies, next to her the same music box, the same melody, he realizes that some truths do not want to be found. And some perpetrators are far from finished. An atmospheric crime novel about the silence of the past, the power of truth and the question of how far someone has to go to find justice.