Hannes Wagner is an institution in Münster. Or rather: it was him. Because on the morning after his 40th anniversary as market manager of the weekly market, which is well-known far beyond the city limits, he is dead as a doornail in his apartment. And almost every one of the market feeders would have good reason to transport Hannes Wagner to the afterlife. Not to mention those whom Wagner has not blessed with one of the coveted licenses for a stand on the market during the decades of his rule. A trail leads the investigators to a small liquorice factory, to Monika, Boerne's first love and to a long-ago case that finally turned little Karl-Friedrich into the big Boerne...