Death's Bride

Even when she's asleep, she looks guilty…

... Shameless. Stripped of petals like a rose… Shirin Talabani, 31, is dead. The strangulation marks on the Kurdish single mother's throat speak for themselves. Suspicion immediately falls on her brother - only three years before, he had been convicted of her attempted murder. So is this a classic case of an honour killing?

Wencke Tydmers has been trained as a profiler in the USA and now works for the Hanover homicide squad. Shirin Talibani's murder is her very first case. Ignoring the official regulations, Wencke throws herself into the investigations, because her gut instinct tells her that Shirin's brother is not the murderer. Too late, Wencke realises she is being followed - and suddenly her son Emil disappears. The trails leads her to Istanbul…