Der letzte Bulle

Mathias Herz is found beaten to death. Small glass shards in his head wound are puzzling. The victim's wife, Lara Herz, is shocked by her husband's death. According to her statement, he had no enemies. However, he and his childhood friend Karsten Wollmer had apparently recently had an argument about the financial direction of their jointly operated climbing park. But is that really the motive for the murder? At the same time, a completely different lead emerges...

Fiona Mehring is found dead in a beach bar—she has been poisoned. The first clue leads Mick and Andreas to the Essen branch of a corporate group that helps companies throughout Germany get rid of unwanted employees. The unscrupulous manager Rasmus Schweizer runs this company, where Fiona not only made a career for herself in a short time, but also apparently made some enemies...

Bestselling author Anja Friedrich is found dead—cause of death: poison! The first suspects are revealed by her extraordinary private life, as Anja Friedrich lived with not one, but two men. The author had written about this threesome relationship in a book. In her bestseller "Monogamy – a thing of the past?", she shared her insights into the joys of love as a threesome. For Mick, it's clear: it was one of her partners. But there are other suspects...

Markus Rietz finds his wife Monika beaten to death in their home. For him, this is the second stroke of fate within a short period of time: just a few days earlier, his wife had been in a car accident in which their daughter Paula was seriously injured and is now in the hospital waiting for a new liver. At first, everything points to a robbery-murder, but then it turns out that the break-in was only staged. Markus Rietz increasingly becomes the focus of the investigation...

The unassuming librarian Karin Hentschel has been murdered. Mick and Andreas investigate and uncover her surprising secret: she was a sex addict! She had been trying to get her addiction under control in a support group. Mick has to learn a lot about "nymphomania" and "Don Juanism" and quickly realizes that everyone in the support group has something to hide. Mick's investigation focuses in particular on the attractive leader of the group.

Dietmar Kuhlmann, Andreas' fencing coach from his youth, has been murdered. Not only is the victim's widow, who also knew Andreas as a young boy, mourning his death, but so is Daniel Wesselburg. As the victim's favorite student, the 29-year-old is now on the verge of achieving every athlete's dream: qualifying for the Olympic Games. However, Dietmar Kuhlmann did not only have friends in the fencing club, as Mick and Andreas discover during their investigations...

Mick's childhood idol Rudi Moos, German soccer legend and popular advertising figure, disappears without a trace from one minute to the next. Instead, his dead gardener Dragan Pali turns up. The Serbian was shot in the back with a revolver. Is Rudi Moos a fugitive murderer? The circumstances seem to point to this: the murder weapon belongs to him, and Rudi's enchanting young wife Mimi was having an affair with the well-built gardener....

Carola Seehagen, a course instructor at the adult education center in Essen, is found stabbed to death. Carola was the instructor of a beginner's course for illiterate people, which single mother Susi Zinsmeister was also attending. Mick and Andreas discover that Carola was dissatisfied with Susi's performance and therefore did not want to issue her a course certificate. This would have had disastrous consequences for Susi...

Things are looking grim for Mick and Andreas: a colleague from the criminal investigation department is brutally murdered—and Mick and the entire department are suspected of being involved. The Internal Affairs Division, which assigns two tough officers, Caroline Hillebrecht and Falk Schröter, to the case, has evidence that Jonas was corrupt. And because he was about to spill the beans, the officers assume that someone wanted to silence him—someone from the department!

A nude cleaner performs at a wild bachelorette party. But during the show, he suddenly collapses and dies. A poison attack! Mick and Andreas take up the investigation. The soon-to-be married couple has hired a wedding planner who immediately becomes Mick's sworn enemy and regularly interferes with the police work. Mick and Andreas have to deal with the overwhelmed bride, the nervous groom, and the dead man's stripping colleague...

A dead butcher named Schill lies in the forest. Meisner faces a problem: the dead man has been completely drained of blood, and the wound on his neck does not match any weapon. Initial suspects include both the estranged widow and Schill's partner, a militant animal rights activist. When, on the morning after the body is found, several Essen residents end up in the city's hospitals with sausage poisoning, the investigation immediately takes a different turn.

Schoolgirl Anja Cordt is found murdered in the foyer of Heinrich Heine High School. Shortly before, she had argued with her best friend Romy, but Romy insists she is innocent. However, she does have a motive: an embarrassing nude photo of Romy is circulating on the internet—and only Anja could have leaked it. Mick and Andreas battle their way through the seething rumor mill at the high school—no easy task, especially for Mick...

Former prisoner Sven Lohmeyer is murdered shortly after his release from prison. Ten years ago, he and his girlfriend Jana Pacht committed a robbery and shot 16-year-old Juliane Rothstein while fleeing. Silke Wieland, his new girlfriend, allegedly knew nothing about Sven's criminal past. Jana Pacht, who is still in prison, on the other hand, knows very well about Silke and would therefore have every motive to kill her ex-boyfriend...