Thu, Apr 9, 2009
Braun is transferred to Saarland wine village St. Florian, which is dominated since long by semi-secret society of seven hereditary winery 'queens'. Fishing, he discovers the corpse of drowned old wine grower Konz. The villagers' prime suspect is millionaire Rose Assmann, who left to marry a GDR citizen and presumably stole part of its missing state funds. Geiger and Brauns also dig into her claim to the town's by far most prestigious winery, which belonged to her family until her communist 'treason'.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009
Bishop Hemmelrath transfers father Braun to St. Florian, a poor parish in the Saarland's derelict mining region. The local 'Palomas' men choir is linked with the keeping of pigeons, who also deliver quite some love - (to Braun's maid Margot) and other notes. Shortly after, chorister Adolf Zwickel and a local Casanova suspiciously fall to their deaths. Meanwhile the bishop's ambitious deputy, monsignor Mühlich, traced to the parish the pigeon which delivered a ransom note for a huge, precious, obviously stolen church treasure, so he's sent to pay it discretely. Only Braun can make sense of all the confusing sets of pigeon messages.