Charlotte Link - Die Suche (2021)

On a rainy autumn evening in Scarborough, 14-year-old Hannah Caswell waits in vain for her father, Ryan, at the deserted train station. A little later, the schoolgirl vanishes without a trace. Alcoholic Detective Chief Inspector Caleb Hale takes charge of the case, but gets nowhere. Two years later, a girl's body is found on the moor. But it is not Hannah; it belongs to another missing girl of the same age. While the media speculate about a psychopathic “moorland killer,” another 14-year-old, schoolgirl Amelie Goldsby, disappears from a supermarket car park. Her mother, Deborah, does not even turn to the local police. Desperate, she and her husband, Jason, ask Scotland Yard officer Kate Linville for help. Kate is staying at their family-run guesthouse. However, the experienced investigator has no intention of getting involved in her colleague and former lover Caleb’s case—she is outside her jurisdiction and has her hands full with personal matters. But when “the Amelie case” takes an unexpected turn, Kate can no longer stay out of it. Posing as a journalist, she plunges into an unprecedented crime spree. Fourteen-year-old Amelie is back with her family. But since her disappearance and rescue by Alex Barnes, the teenager seems like a different person. During an outing on the moor, Amelie disappears again. Detective Chief Inspector Caleb Hale is now under even greater pressure: he is not only at a loss in the search for the “moorland killer” and a missing girl, but has also lost his only witness despite the protection detail! Caleb immediately orders a search for Amelie’s shady “rescuer,” Alex, who extorted a reward from her parents and has been in hiding ever since. The chief investigator gets a painful surprise when he visits a suspect: Chapland, the boat-tour operator, is having an affair with Kate Linville! The Scotland Yard officer no longer cares about her former lover or his jurisdiction over the case. But she cannot use her Scotland Yard badge here. Disguised as a journalist, Kate uncovers another kidnapping case. To rescue Mandy, a runaway held captive in a remote country house, Kate must put her own life at risk.