WaPo Berlin S04E10 - Rosentod

A bizarre discovery in a Berlin lake: in a small bay, the body of a woman has been weighted down with a stone, and dozens of luxury roses have been scattered across the surface of the water. Investigators quickly determine that the victim is star soprano Christina Varell, who had hosted a reception aboard her yacht "Lohengrin" the previous evening. The temperamental opera diva had suddenly disappeared from there.

Earlier, the sewage boat operator and water systems technician Frido Zille had carried out repairs on the yacht. Forensic pathologist Dr. Dillinger is able to reconstruct the sequence of events: Christina Varell most likely fell from a height, tumbling down a short flight of steps.

But who had a motive for murder? Her young partner Tim Molsen becomes the prime suspect, as he had been cheating on Varell with other women. Yet Varell's understudy, Li von Haselstein, also stands to benefit from the death of her rival. Opera director Florian Herzog is likewise under suspicion, as he was apparently being blackmailed by the diva. What did she have on him?