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Families and Ties
Kessler is a detective inspector in the big city and not a particularly nice person. He knows no bounds when it comes to solving a case. Success is very important to him because his career depends on it. It seems that he has already messed up once before. It always seems as if he wants to bulldoze his way through … too bad that in a small town, more like a village, on the Baltic Sea, the world moves at a different pace – not that there aren’t intrigues and acts of revenge, shady deals and banal crime here too.
On site, Kessler meets a colleague who grew up here and has been ensuring law and order for decades. She knows “her village” and treats everyone with great care. Without her, Kessler would be lost, because at first he keeps running into walls, walls of silence, even though there is a lot of talk. Only his colleague can correct his perspective and provide him with background information to solve the cases. At the same time, however, Kessler also helps her to take off her rose-tinted glasses through which she sees the village and its inhabitants and to perceive realities, however cruel they may be.
In the countryside in this small town on the Baltic Sea, life seems to move at a slower pace. Perhaps it is more that everything is much more familiar, although the status symbols and side effects of the modern world, such as smartphones and drugs, are of course present and used. Nevertheless, it seems that families rule the world here, at least their little world. It’s a kind of “everyone knows everyone” situation … and somehow everyone often knows what happened here and there, in some families, many years ago.
It often starts with someone disappearing or being found dead. No one can explain what happened – at least, that’s how it looks at first glance. Kessler arrives when it is certain that a violent crime has been committed. He tries to solve the case, but usually misses the mark at first. His colleague on site tries to protect her friends and acquaintances – and, of course, her own family – but soon realises that it’s not that simple.
There are married couples and there are affairs. There are young women and older, wealthy men. There are fathers and daughters, mothers and sons who either live very closely together or have drifted apart due to arguments. There are high school graduates who want to celebrate … Everything is always very closely connected.
Young, innocent teenagers wash up dead and turn out to be not so innocent after all. A family disappears and dead and kidnapped family members gradually reappear. The colleague experiences the breakdown of her marriage and family, but then uncovers a case of fraud – and disappears. Kessler keeps coming back to the small town to investigate – and time and again he solves the case and leaves behind a few new enemies from the village whom he had to step on.