What Martin Felser fished out of the mailbox is not a sunny holiday greeting to Charlotte Lindholm, but a curious anonymous reference to a planned crime: "Come quickly - otherwise murder" is written on the postcard. A "Forte" energy bar is included, which Charlotte has analyzed in the KTU laboratory to be on the safe side. The result is alarming - the bar is actually poisoned. The public prosecutor responsible refuses to take the anonymous message seriously, but Charlotte's decision is clear: she travels to the sleepy village of Nordersiel on the North Sea, where the card was posted to prevent bad things from happening.
But theCommissioner arrives too late: Wolfgang Surdrup, owner of a small excursion boat, is in the hospital with severe symptoms of poisoning, and his death can no longer be prevented. Behind the idyllic facade of the sleepy tourist town, Charlotte Lindholm encounters tragic entanglements. The focus is on the choleric Roland Jellinek, partner of the poisoned Surdrup. Jellinek has been bullying his daughter Sandra and his wife Nynke for years, and he only spoke to his partner Surdrup when it was absolutely necessary. Charlotte knows how to prevent an act of desperation at the last moment, but the solution to the case is only apparently achieved.