The Nordic Murders
Season 1
Former district attorney Karin Lossow and Detective Chief Superintendent Julia Thiel, a formidable mother-daughter duo, solve criminal cases on the picturesque island of Usedom.
Where to Watch Season 1
24 Episodes
- The Stain
E2Episode 2The StainA supermarket manageress from Ahlbeck on the island of Usedom is found dead in the neighboring Polish resort of Swinemünde. Inspector Julia Thiel and her Polish colleague Marek investigate. The dead woman was planning to meet one of her employees to discuss a mysterious property swap. The case is a challenge for Julia Thiel, because her mother of all people is a "legal adviser" to the main suspect. To cap it all, her adolescent daughter is proving difficult, having found out she's having an affair with her Polish colleague. - Nightshade
E11Episode 11NightshadeAfter a debauched drug party by Karin Lossow's (Katrin Sass) great-nephew Ben (Emil Belton), 16-year-old Flo (Jascha Baum) is found dead in the sauna of a holiday bungalow. Ben's father Rainer (Till Firit) arrives, Karin's long-unseen nephew, who works for the Munich Criminal Investigation Department. He promptly interferes in the investigation, because his son is a suspect: Ben was deeply in love with Felice (Lea Freund), just like the dead Flo. And Felice was probably abused during the night, as Commissioner Ellen Norgaard (Rikke Lylloff) thinks she can see from her behavior. In addition, Ellen makes a private discovery that will change her life: she is pregnant. - Pain threshold
E12Episode 12Pain thresholdErika Brunner (Lore Stefanek), the mother of Dr. Dirk Brunner (Max Hopp), dies in a luxurious retirement home. The prosecutor learns that nursing service manager Kerstin Matthies (Ingrid Sattes) had apparently abused his mother. This hits Brunner all the harder because he was in a relationship with Mrs. Matthies until recently. A short time later, the nursing service manager disappears – a violent crime? Brunner comes under suspicion. The prosecutor, who has been stalked by journalists and bloggers, seeks support from his opponent Karin Lossow (Katrin Sass), of all people. She hides it – in the area of the bison enclosure where she works. Brunner sees himself as the victim of a conspiracy and suspects that the perpetrator is someone he has put behind bars. Together with the ex-prosecutor and Ellen Norgaard (role Öyööpff), Brunner investigates his old cases. In the process, the three of them come across a murder case in which he does not play a laudable role. - Give and take
E13Episode 13Give and takeAfter her divorce from the local politician Victor Braydon (John Keogh), Simone Eggebrecht (Caroline Redl) finds stability in her work with the disabled and her friendship with the paralyzed Wiebke Siehl (Julia Hartmann). Simone's plan to build a hotel for the disabled in a prime location is torpedoed by anonymous acts of sabotage. She hires Patrick Horn (Max Schimmelpfennig) as a security guard. When the young man disappears, Simone blames her ex-husband and his party colleague Enno Littmann (Jörg Witte) and drags Commissioner Ellen Norgaard (Rikke Lylloff) and her colleague Rainer Witt (Till Firit) into their War of the Roses. Karin, who begins a romance with Inspector Gadocha (Merab Ninidze), wants to stay out of it and finally put her own interests first. But it is precisely her own struggle for happiness in life that allows Karin to find the true motive and the tragic perpetrator. - Kidnapped
E14Episode 14KidnappedEllen Norgaard's first day at work after maternity leave ends in disaster: her one-year-old son Jesper is kidnapped from the care of his childminder. Inspector Rainer Witt and ex-public prosecutor Karin Lossow do everything in their power to find the child. A detail of the investigation puts Karin on the right track: the kidnapper is Patrizia, Ellen's mother, who disappeared without a trace more than 30 years ago. Karin and Patrizia were close friends in their youth. Since Karin knows Patrizia well from back then, she is working intensively on the case. While Ellen becomes increasingly desperate, the investigators try to find out where Patrizia could be with the child. In the course of the investigation, it becomes clear that Ellen's mother has only recently been in a psychiatric ward... - Uninvited guests
E15Episode 15Uninvited guestsIt's burning on Usedom: Karin Lossow's thatched-roof house is on fire. At the last moment, she manages to escape from the house with Ellen Norgaard's help. Karin has suffered smoke inhalation and is immediately taken to the hospital. At the clinic, she befriends former nurse Saskia Bernard, who was hit by a car and seriously injured. Saskia was on her way to physiotherapy when the car hit her. The young woman recovers quickly, but she cannot remember the accident. The car and driver have disappeared without a trace. Who wanted to kill Saskia? And why? - The Long Farewell
E16Episode 16The Long FarewellUlf, Eva and Renate, all in their seventies, are partying exuberantly during a camping trip in Poland. The next day, Ulf, confused and taken away, is found by hunters at the edge of the forest. He thinks he's killed someone, but can't remember anything. Helpless and desperate, he is taken to hospital and police commissioner Lucjan Gadocha is notified. During a border check, Holm Brendel and Dorit Martens stop Eva's camper, which catches fire and explodes. Holm and Dorit suspect that the three of them are smuggling gasoline to supplement their tight budget. - Good news
E17Episode 17Good newsProminent TV presenter Sandra Berger has died. The horticultural entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady beaten to death in her Usedom holiday home. Chief Inspector Ellen Norgaard is shocked when she meets the husband of the victim, the equally well-known TV presenter Jonas Gomez, at the scene of the crime. The two are connected by the well-kept secret of a passionate affair. Karin Lossow senses that Ellen is in a bad way. The inspector pours her heart out to her friend. No one in the police station suspects that Ellen had met with Jonas Gomez at the time of the crime. It would mean the certain end of her career in the police and the probable end of her lover's career, who has no alibi for the time of the crime and is also being blackmailed. The circle of suspects also includes the employees of the horticultural company, who were at the couple's holiday home before Berger's death, as well as the Greifswald art dealer Schwenkers. - Snow White
E18Episode 18Snow WhiteSchool secretary Annett Ludwig jogs by the sea. Under a steep cliff, she discovers a dead teenager: Theo Jacobsen, a student at her school. The 17-year-old was considered an inconspicuous outsider. Karin Lossow knows Theo from business school, where she teaches a course on legal issues as part of a project week. Coincidentally, she had witnessed a bullying attack on Theo, who was at the top of her class, and offered to help the boy. Rainer Witt and his colleagues Holm Brendel and Dorit Martens examine Theo's laptop. It turns out that he ran a buoyant trade in test questions, which he sold to his classmates, making thousands of dollars in profit. To do this, the alleged model pupil used access to the board of directors' surfer – the password was only known to school secretary Ludwig. Theo was deeply in love with their daughter Paula. But Paula has a crush on Karol Wilcek, who can't do anything with her pubescent classmate. - At the end of a journey
E19Episode 19At the end of a journeyPolice Superintendent Holm Brendel follows in the footsteps of prominent Swedish crime writer Arvid Johanssons in Ystad. Ex-prosecutor Karin Lossow accompanies Holm on the private trip. On the ferry back to Usedom, she meets Dana Driest, a native of Poland. She has a conspicuous hematoma on her cheek. Was she a victim of domestic violence? The next day, Karin sees Dana's husband Jochen driving off the ferry at the wheel of his SUV – without his wife. In the meantime, Dr. Brunner is looking forward to new tasks in Estonia. His successor on Usedom will be public prosecutor Katharina Stozek, the partner of Chief Inspector Rainer Witt. - Birth of the Dragon Woman
E21Episode 21Birth of the Dragon WomanWhile Karin Lossow inspects the construction site of her future domicile on Usedom, eight refugees from Afghanistan and Syria are waiting at the Belarusian-Polish border for their further transport by a group of smugglers. Among them are Ahmad Bashmani and his young daughter Amira. The refugees are taken to a van that sets off westwards. At the wheel was the completely overtired Grzegorz Kuchar. Although little Amira suffers from severe abdominal pain, the smuggler does not want to stop the car to get help. And so the girl is dead when the van arrives on Usedom the next morning. - Tractor
E22Episode 22TractorWhen Inspector Rainer Witt learns of his aunt Karin Lossow's car accident on the Polish side of Usedom, he manages to navigate the emergency services to her just in time. The investigation into the case of the dead refugee girl Amira Bashmani is finally moving forward thanks to Karin's testimonies, but after the murder of the smuggler Grzegorz Kuchar, who is responsible for the girl's death, the police are faced with more questions than they have answers. Because not only Kuchar is dead, but also his two murderers, the smuggler Sasha Leskov and his Uzbek accomplice Shakir Adullayev.
