Inspector Claudius Zorn cannot believe his eyes when he wakes up next to prosecutor Frieda Borck. How could this have happened? But soon Zorn has even bigger problems: a young man has been found dead, tied to a tree by the river, a long nail driven into his thigh. When Zorn checks the call log on the victim’s mobile phone, he discovers something he wishes he had never seen. Shortly before his death, the victim called a number belonging to someone Zorn knows only too well …