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Thu, Apr 1, 2010
Bishop Hemmelrath hopes to pose as a missionary to the Protestant north by having a late curate on an Ostee island canonized. He sends Braun there as new parish priest. Alas, he soon finds there was a murder committed in the sleepy town, which now gets a scandal press. It all relates to a lost son returning to his father after a dark GDR episode.
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Thu, Apr 8, 2010
Luxurious bishop Hemmelrath urgently needs more income, but the new electronic donation system isn't yielding serious money. The only exception is a female donor in father Braun's new parish, a fashionable spa near the Polish border. Vicar Mühlich identifies her as an industry heiress using a fake name and is dispatched to help Braun get half a million Euros out of her. In the spa, petty ex-con Klaas Wittek is killed during a nightly motorbike ride by a hidden cable. Commissioner Geiger has to handle the case jointly with his Polish colleague Stanislaw Kowalsky, as the bike was stolen in Poland. Later, Lithuanian aristocratic playboy Wiktor Radziwill is murdered in Leo Meschkat's luxury spa hotel, by trowing one of Dr. Valentin's lethal Australian jellyfishes in his bath, just after his infidelity was overheard.
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
Bishop Hemmelrath's sycophantic deputy Mühlich's seminary friend died of a cardiac arrest in his parish, a castle outside Passau. It's only the first of several, each corresponding to an original Grimm brothers rhyme about the seven dwarfs. Mühlich arranges for Braun to be named to that parish and enlists his retainer Armin to train him in martial arts, supposedly as episcopal bodyguard. The victims include banker Zapf and a museum director, both involved in a grim intrigue about the priceless original Grimm manuscripts, which ruthless thieves are after while rivaling academics dispute research prominence. Braun finds the common factors and solves both cases.