Just when the meeting at the office of Tom de Groot had ended near midnight, he sees something float in the Oude Gracht, near the Dome. It turns out to be his own employee, Joshua Engel, or Josh for short. Who turns out to have been murdered. What on earth happened, when he was having a meeting with the rest of his employees and old friend Theo?

For Matilda van Harst, detective in Hilversum and living in the Hilversumse Meent near Bussum, it means a roundtrip through both parts of those cities. Will she be able to find who did it?