12 Signs

Gabriel Fischer-Hellwarth, the patriarch of an extremely wealthy Viennese banking family, is soon to have his birthday party.

It will be on this occasion where he will also officially meet his illegitimate daughter, Esther, who has just returned to Austria after finishing her studies in the USA.




For some mysterious reason, Esther’s return provokes a bizarre series of murders targeting the Fischer-Hellwarth family.

Clearly she is the key, because it is to her that the killer sends mystifying, coded messages in which he communicates his intended crimes, which are soon revealed to be based on an ancient astrological system.



Keller, the police inspector leading the unusual murder investigation, has long hated the Fischer-Hellwarth clan, so he quickly proposes the theory that the crimes are acts of revenge against the family.

With the help of a parapsychologist and her own research into her family’s history, Esther independently attempts to unmask the identity of the murderer.



As her frantic research delves deeper into their past, she is shocked to discover terrible secrets lying at the heart of this complex family she is only now getting to know…









In Esther’s eyes, everyone is a suspect – but who could the killer actually be? One of Gabriel Fischer-Hellwarth’s many illegitimate children? Felix, Gabriel’s unsuccessful ex-son-in-law, who wants to take his son away from the Fischer-Hellwarth family?







Her strange cousin Georg Attenberg, whose family was ruined by Gabriel Fischer-Hellwarth? Maybe Ursula, Esther’s mother, who raised her as a single parent? Or possibly even Sebastian Heegert, Gabriel’s lawyer and disobedient son-in-law? And what is the charming bohemian, Mathias Vollmer, trying to hide? The closer Esther gets to the truth, the more dangerous her situation becomes…