How does a victim get justice when there’s no obvious crime?

Swiss homicide detective Giuliana Linder of the Bern Police and her junior colleague Renzo Donatelli are facing cases that may not be what they appear. Renzo is near the Bern cathedral when a young man repairing a medieval window is hurt falling from a scaffold—a fall deliberately caused by a teenage boy.

Finding evidence that the boy’s attack is linked to his mother’s suicide fifteen years earlier, Renzo decides to reexamine the woman’s death, hoping the investigation will help him get promoted.

Although she’s busy researching a woman who has poisoned her elderly husband, Giuliana can’t help getting involved in Renzo’s case. Their investigations prove more disruptive than they expected—and so do their feelings for each other.