Miriam Fontaine

Flooding in Krumau am Kamp: three infant bodies , two girls and a boy , are found in the basement of the Trummler family 's farm , which has long been uninhabited . The children were suffocated immediately after birth and buried on the spot . A dark reputation precedes the Trummelrs ; the word "cursed" is used more than once : after the daughter 's disappearance without a trace. The villagers have never quite forgotten the tragedy , and so willOld wounds opened up when Marion Reiter from the St. Pölten homicide squad took up the investigation . She is assisted by the inexperienced but persistent local police officer Ulli Herzog . As the two delve deeper into the Trummels ' dark family secrets . The two of them don't seem to be bothered by the macabre history at first , but the shadows of the past soon catch up with them too .

Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on social and artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements and unemployment loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans are mounting. Personally connected to the victims, Perg decides to bring the killer to justice. He finds an ally in the cool-headed forensic doctor Theresa Körner, with whom he has a deeper, shared history. Their investigation leads them into the darkest corners of the city, as they confront a brutal and systematic killer and intrigues from within the police force. But when the killer’s net closes around Perg himself, he faces the moral dilemma of his life.

The shy writer Stephan is tired of life in the big city. He is looking for peace and seclusion and that is exactly what he hopes for when he goes to a cabin in the mountains with his girlfriend Mia. With Stephan, inspiration soon sprouts and he gives himself to write. Mia, on the other hand, who has been skeptical of her lonely holiday from the beginning, suffers from frightening nightmares. When Stephan realizes that reality is mixed with what he writes, it is too late. Stephan has raised a demon and Mia is his prisoner.