For months an unscrupulous arsonist has been terrorizing the city of Nuremberg. Detective Inspector Ulf Maiwald is under enormous public pressure. In his desperate search for the connection between the arson attacks - on buildings apparently chosen at random - Maiwald turns to the psychologist Dr. Silvia Jansen. Silvia is treating the sixteen-year-old Jens Anders who was present when his father, P..

Four-year-old Melanie has disappeared. A brief, unobserved moment in a shopping centre. Her parents are in despair, utterly distraught. The psychotherapist Silvia Jansen takes them under her wing. At first the police are at a loss; then a blackmailer calls and demands a million. Is he really the kidnapper? Perhaps, perhaps not. For there is another, more promising trail: a man with a previous conv..

Dr. Klaus-Peter Reck, chief executive of a software company in Munich, attends a seminar lasting several days on personality development for managers in Chiemgau. He never returns from this course: his corpse is found in the lake, he has been shot in the head. Inspector Jürgen Tauber and Dr. Sylvia Jansen, the police psychologist, encounter a distinct lack of co-operation on the part of Max Orthei..