With Cold Calculation

A Race Against Time for a Child’s Life: Sabine Yao Solves Her Second Case

The »Extreme Crimes« special unit led by Dr Sabine Yao is once again investigating unusual deaths: two bizarrely disfigured bodies clad in black velvet dresses, hanging from a frame in the forest, pose a mystery to investigators. Then Sabine Yao is called to a crime scene in a trailer park, where a corpse lies surrounded by children’s toys and wigs. No official authority yet knows that the former Jordanian secret service agent Khalaf is frantically searching for missing eight–year–old Yasser. The residents of Neukölln’s High–Deck estate trust him more than the Berlin police. Khalaf discovers that Yasser is not the first child to disappear from the housing project – and that this case is about to take on entirely different dimensions. When a child’s body is found, Sabine Yao begins to realise that, far removed from Berlin’s visible structures, an urban shadow society exists where an investigator like her is strictly unwelcome ...