Murder by the Lake - Season 1 (2015)

Following local custom after a wedding, bride Maja is "abducted" by a team of friends and placed blindfolded in a small boat. Her groom is then dispatched to find her in a rowboat, but he discovers her murdered and propped against a tree. Her veil and ring are missing. Various suspects seem possible, including a young couple who form a society to prevent the killing of a flock of cormorants that next next to the lake, and a fisherman whom the couple suspects of being the bird's killer. Jule, the young woman suspect has a history of violence and a past sentence for ...

In lake Bodensee a chained, 'waxen' teen girl corpse is found with Down-symptoms, identified as Marie Häusler, 15 years missing since she turned 18. Her mysterious disappearance haunted her father Manfred who, after her mother's suicide, married Marie's favorite home caregiver, Jasmin Häusler, whose brother, a retired cop, kept searching 'illegally' ever since. Bothersome Marie was far from popular, especially with crone Christine Ludwig, whose home she burnt down. Micha Oberländer is personally concerned, having lost a small son, and with partner Hannah Zeiler, who ...

Micha Oberländer investigates the fatal head-shot of Johannes Leitner on "Galgeninsel" with the service of Hannah Zeiler, who lies unconscious besides the corpse. She sought privately to let him clarify the fate of her father, but was followed and knocked down. *Hannah's former mentor Ernst Gschwendner assumed suicide, but later suspects Hermann Zeiler may still be alive. As the dirty truth is unearthed, Oberländer must conclude to change Hannah's life permanently and it's truth time for the Zeilers.

The dead body of a woman is found in a hops field - presented by the perpetrator hanging in a spider web on a seven meter high scaffold. It is not the first case of this kind: apparently Jutta Reike is the fourth victim of a serial killer. Micha Oberländer and Hannah Zeiler find out that the victim doesn't correspond physically to the pattern of the other homicides. Is this the crime of a copycat? When a swimmer is run over brutally by a motorboat on the lake, a surprise is awaiting Zeiler and Oberländer: they find evidence in the car of the victim Dietrich Falkner, ...

As they adjust to changes in their own lives, Hannah and Micha investigate a murder case involving love, loss and revenge.

A woman is found dead in the costume of a mermaid on the shore of Lake Constance. Micha Oberländer and Hannah Zeiler target a surfer clique and the ex-husband of the murder victim.

A diver is murdered after recovering a box of gold coins from Lake Constance.

After a gruesome murder attempt, Zeiler and Oberländer investigate in the vicinity of a horse stud.

A long forgotten curse seems to resurface when children witness a murder in an old and deteriorated mansion. Detectives Zeiler and Oberländer need to investigate the past in order to uncover the truth.

When a baby is found floating inside a wicker basket on the lake, Oberländer and Zeiler suspect a connection to an older case of a missing woman. The strange symbols painted on the sheets the baby was wrapped in give them their first lead.

A disturbed young woman shows up at the police to report a murder she claims to have seen in a vision. Oberländer believes it to be a hoax, but Zeiler is not letting go of the matter. Few hours later, the man described is found dead.

A wolf roaming the woods causes unrest among the population and attracts dubious characters to Lake Constance. When one of them, a trophy hunter, is found dead in his self-made wolf trap, detectives Zeiler and Oberländer are called upon.

While Zeiler has still not returned from her vacation, Oberländer has problems getting used to her replacement, the resolute Detective Hoffmann from Vienna. But soon a complicated murder case forces them to cooperate.

Detective Oberländer, plagued by nightmares and strange visions, falls under suspicion of murder himself.