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Guido Braun, a hedonistic reverend from Bavaria, is once more transferred by his irate bishop for repeated venturing in 'criminalizing' (sleuthing), in this case worsened by toying with the seal of confession to get his headstrong housekeeper's knavish son Armin out of prison. This time he's posted as curate in the mainly Lutheran northern isle Nordersand, a poor parish, unappealing to him or his company. Barely settling in, Braun suspects the sudden death of rich wheelchair widow Helene Groenewold to be a murder, seeking a motive in her local ornithology foundation's rich endowment.

Father Braun is transferred as curate in Potsdam's St. Cassian parish. Local rabbi Chaijm Seelig is absurdly the prime suspect of the blunt murder of a gentile gardener whose corpse is found in the synagogue. The victim's firm Kruschke bitterly rivals Jewish colleague Adam Grün's but secretly worked on re-breeding a priceless extinct black tulip, which ties to a Dutch murder. Discovering heirs from the rival families, both after the monumental Sansouci royal palace garden contract, have secretly fallen in love, priest and rabbi support such reconciliation key, yet bicker about their religion's incompatible claims to marriage and offspring.

It will soon be October 31st again and Halloween is approaching on Nordersand. Markus, Chief Inspector Geiger's son, literally stumbles upon a skeleton in the dunes as he sneaks around the house of the beautiful Jovanka, who he is madly in love with. What should he do with the spooky find? Markus and his friends Heiko, Timo and Uwe come up with the idea for a prank: They create digital photo montages of Jovanka and other islanders "in the company" of the skeleton and spread them all over the island. While Inspector Geiger is not particularly interested in the photos, Pastor Braun immediately suspects murder. And his research seems to prove him right, because another skeleton soon turns up. In the meantime, forensic pathologist Dr. Schwenke, who was actually on holiday on Nordersand, has examined the first skeleton - and the result sets off all the alarm bells for our amateur criminologist. The bells also ring for his housekeeper Margot Roßhauptner, who already sees the next punitive transfer from her employer coming.

Grateful bishop Hemmelrath posts father Braun in an idyllic rose-growing Rhine town. His maid and her son seem to find love there. Braun smells murder when the local Baron Falkenberg and his sons seem to be suffering the fatal results of a course which would see their family extinct and the castle fall to another. Braun wins his bet with police commissioner Geiger to finds the motives for recent and older events to come up with a surprising key suspect.

Curate Braun to a protestant stronghold in Havelland. In The his Lutheran counterpart, pastor Lehmkuhl, dies from eating a poisoned pear past-out to the faithful in traditional honor of the town's legendary, alas missing ancient pear tree, crucial to a local developer's hotel project. Braun finds out about the Lehmkuhl family's dark secrets and the tree, thus crossing the monsignor's mission to negotiate about the potentially lucrative old church.

Bishop Hemmelrath hopes to pose as a missionary to the Protestant north by having a late curate on an Ostee island canonized. He sends Braun there as new parish priest. Alas, he soon finds there was a murder committed in the sleepy town, which now gets a scandal press. It all relates to a lost son returning to his father after a dark GDR episode.

Luxurious bishop Hemmelrath urgently needs more income, but the new electronic donation system isn't yielding serious money. The only exception is a female donor in father Braun's new parish, a fashionable spa near the Polish border. Vicar Mühlich identifies her as an industry heiress using a fake name and is dispatched to help Braun get half a million Euros out of her. In the spa, petty ex-con Klaas Wittek is killed during a nightly motorbike ride by a hidden cable. Commissioner Geiger has to handle the case jointly with his Polish colleague Stanislaw Kowalsky, as the bike was stolen in Poland. Later, Lithuanian aristocratic playboy Wiktor Radziwill is murdered in Leo Meschkat's luxury spa hotel, by trowing one of Dr. Valentin's lethal Australian jellyfishes in his bath, just after his infidelity was overheard.

Bishop Hemmelrath lost a fortune, like many private persons, in bad investments trough Bernie Blumenfeld, alas donations of the faithful. So he and monsignor Mühlich send delighted Braun as new curate to Bernie's Bavarian home town. The prelates soon check in the town's hotel after hearing Blumenfeld was found dead in the historical torture room, part of the luxury rest home, where some near-ruined investors tried to extract the whereabouts of the money. Braun sends his housemaid in, posing as a new pensioner guest. Home nurse Margarete Halfinger is murdered too.

To cash a huge legacy from a late millionaire whoa admired Braun as a detective, the bishop grudgingly posts him in the ailing Catholic parish of her Saxon birth town in the former GDR, dominated by hostile Lutherans. She also left a secret letter requesting he investigates the suspicious death of her late husband, founder of the hotel that made their family fortune. A new murder follows.