In March, a man who has been considered an emigrant for nine years is found floating in the lake. Inspector Ida Ruf knows him: he was her brother's best man. What begins as a corpse in the water leads into a network of real-estate deals, Swiss bank accounts and three families who have shared the same shore for generations. The first case in the Lake Constance series featuring Inspector Ida Ruf — atmospheric, precise and deeply rooted in its landscape.