Baltic Crimes

- Season 1

(2015)

After serving six years for killing her husband, former public prosecutor Karin Lossow is granted an early release. Against her parole officer's advice, she returns to Usedom and her old house, now known as the eponymous "murderer house".

A supermarket manageress from Ahlbeck on the island of Usedom is found dead in the neighboring Polish resort of Swinemünde. Inspector Julia Thiel and her Polish colleague Marek investigate. The dead woman was planning to meet one of her employees to discuss a mysterious property swap. The case is a challenge for Julia Thiel, because her mother of all people is a "legal adviser" to the main suspect. To cap it all, her adolescent daughter is proving difficult, having found out she's having an affair with her Polish colleague.

Abortionists.

Fog wall.

Trailed track.

Winter light.

Ghost Ship.

Karin is asked by Brendal to help a friend of his who was convicted of shooting her lover. Karin doesn't believe the woman's story of self-defense, so both the German and Polish police try to work out what happened.

Danish rescue divers and a dead woman puzzle the police. Ellen Norgaard suspects the body is her mother.

The architect Sascha Hoerne was crushed and then drowned. His death shakes the Sievers family. The father-in-law had big plans with him and his future wife is pregnant by him. The brother-in-law is under suspicion.

16-year-olds who were drugged until unconscious in a holiday bungalow, one of them dead in the sauna - this is how the new tourism season begins in a Usedom imperial bath. It was Karin Lossow's great-nephew Ben's party that escalated there. His father Rainer arrives, Karin's nephew, who has not been seen for a long time and who works for the Munich police station. He promptly interferes in Ellen Norgaard's investigation, because his son is suspect: Did Ben kill his buddy? Both were deeply in love with Felice, who was molested that night - not just by a man, it turns ...

Erika Brunner, the mother of Dr. Dirk Brunner. The prosecutor learns that the head of nursing Kerstin Matthies had apparently mistreated his mother. Which hits Brunner all the harder when he was in a relationship with Mrs. Matthies until recently. A little later, the nursing manager disappears - a violent crime? Brunner comes under suspicion. The prosecutor, who was stalked by journalists and bloggers, is looking for support from his opponent Karin Lossow. She hides it - in the area of the bison enclosure where she works. Brunner sees himself as a victim of a plot and...

After her divorce from the local politician Victor Braydon, Simone Eggebrecht found support in working with the disabled and in friendship with the paralyzed Wiebke Siehl. Simone's plan to build a handicapped hotel in a prime location is torpedoed by anonymous acts of sabotage. She hires Patrick Horn as a guard. When the young man disappears, Simone blames her ex-husband and his party colleague Enno Littmann and pulls Commissioner Ellen Norgaard and her colleague Rainer Witt into their war of the roses. Karin, who starts a romance with Inspector Gadocha, wants to stay...

Ellen Norgaard's first day back at work after maternity leave ends in disaster: Her son Jesper is kidnapped from daycare.

It burns on Usedom: Karin Lossow's thatched roof house is on fire. At the last moment she can escape the house with Ellen Norgaard's help. Karin has suffered smoke inhalation and is immediately taken to the hospital. In the clinic, she befriends former nurse Saskia Bernard, who was hit by a car and seriously injured. Saskia was on her way to physical therapy when the car caught her. The young woman recovers quickly, but she cannot remember the accident. The car and driver have disappeared without a trace. Who was going to kill Saskia? And why? Saskia's life revolves ...

Ulf, Eva and Renate, all in their seventies, party lively during a camping trip in Poland. The next day, Ulf, confused and taken away, is found by hunters at the edge of the forest. He thinks he killed someone but can't remember anything. He is hospitalized helpless and desperate and police commissioner Lucjan Gadocha is notified. At a border control, Holm Brendel and Dorit Martens stop Eva's camper, which catches fire and explodes. Holm and Dorit suspect that the three are smuggling gasoline to supplement the tight budget. You have the car checked. Renate's body is ...

The prominent TV presenter Sandra Berger is dead. The gardening entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady dead in her Usedom holiday home. Chief Inspector Ellen Norgaard is shocked when she meets the dead man's husband, also well-known TV presenter Jonas Gomez, at the scene of the crime. The two are linked by the well-kept secret of a passionate affair. Karin Lossow senses that Ellen is doing badly. The inspector pours out her heart to her friend. Nobody in the police station suspects that Ellen was meeting Jonas Gomez at the time of the crime. It would mean the ...

School secretary Annett Ludwig is jogging by the sea. Under a steep cliff she discovers a dead teenager: Theo Jacobsen, a student at her school. The 17-year-old was considered an inconspicuous outsider. Karin Lossow knows Theo from business school, where she teaches a course on legal issues as part of a project week. By chance, she had observed a bullying attack on the best in the class, Theo, and offered the boy her help. Rainer Witt and his colleagues Holm Brendel and Dorit Martens examine Theo's laptop. It turns out he ran a thriving trade in test questions, which ...

Police Superintendent Holm Brendel follows in the footsteps of the prominent Swedish crime writer Arvid Johanssons in Ystad. Ex-prosecutor Karin Lossow accompanies Holm on the private trip. On the ferry back to Usedom, she meets Dana Driest, who was born in Poland. She has a noticeable hematoma on her cheek. Has she been a victim of domestic violence? The next day, Karin saw Dana's husband Jochen drive off the ferry at the wheel of his SUV - without his wife. Meanwhile, Dr. Brunner to new tasks in Estonia. His successor on Usedom will be public prosecutor Katharina ...