Blood

Blood

As day breaks, Rosa is summoned to a remote crime scene in the Bernese Jura. In Thallingen, three people have been found shot to death, two in a car, the third nearby on the forest path. The head of the local police station, Susann Walter and her deputy Leo Mott have already identified the victims: they are Artan Kabashi, son of Albanian immigrants who run a pizzeria in the village, his colleague, Faton Berisha, known to the police as a small-time drug dealer and Corinne Steiger, daughter of the village publican. At first glance, the crime looks drugs-related but there is something wrong with this picture – the car trunk has been broken open from the inside and Corinne had no links to that world at all. Soon however it becomes clear that there is one connection between the victims: on the previous evening, all three attended a party thrown by the Mulliger family, who have owned the sawmill in Thallingen for generations. Half the village had come together to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the largest employer in the region. The Kabashi family provided the catering.

Surprisingly, Rosa's old friend and colleague Manfred Kägi turns up at the crime scene – with a witness: his own nephew, Simon, who was also at the party to meet his girlfriend, Adelina Kabashi. After an argument, he claims to have been locked in the trunk, where he witnessed the murders without actually seeing anything. All he could hear was indistinct voices, shots and a cell phone ringing.

The news about the triple murder spreads like wildfire through the village. People start speculating about a sex crime, but then new evidence emerges: village policeman Leo Mott finds blue pills in the car. The pregnant widow, Jasmin Berisha claims to know nothing about her murdered husband's drug dealing. Shortly afterwards she is threatened by a visibly agitated man by the name of Porto, who is searching for a bag of money. To save herself from harm, she tells him that there may have been a witness to the murder: Kägi's nephew Simon. Is Simon now in danger or is he actually more deeply implicated in the triple murder? After all, he has a bag full of money hidden in his room...