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Who poisoned Clément Saint-Aubin, a contemptuous notable struck down by a heart attack while he was promoting his new novel? This is the enigma that Commissioner Simon Magellan, single father of two teenage girls with strong character, must solve. At his side, his friend the prosecutor Gavrillac and his gourmet assistant, Lieutenant Béziat. Magellan quickly understands that the suspects are not lacking: Catherine Saint-Aubin, the widow who does not shed the slightest tear; her lover, Franck Cazal, the couple's sports coach; Father Moreau, an atypical and tempestuous priest, at the head of a reintegration center for young delinquents... Not to mention all these local notables whose well-kept secrets were threatened by the future opus of Saint-Aubin...
A murderer comes to mow down, on the stage of the theatre of Saignac, one of the members of the troop. All of its members become suspect, each possessing, in Magellan's eyes, an excellent motive. Behind the walls of this charming provincial town many secrets are revealed: forbidden liaisons, abandoned child, money affair...
Accused of murder, Emma de Keyster, heiress of a powerful family of notables, disappears for five years. She decides to return to Saignac for her sister's wedding, but her body is found the next day in the castle moat. There is no shortage of potential culprits: his sister who was going to marry Emma's husband? His brother involved in dark traffic? A little blackmailing accountant? To move forward on this investigation, Magellan finds an old acquaintance, his former assistant...
Rich owner of a stud farm, Pierre-Yves Montalivet is found dead in his stables. The investigation into the victim's murder leads Magellan and his deputy to unexpected revelations about his business, his private life, but also his past... Revelations that will lead to unexpected culprits: a competitor thirsty for revenge, a woman adulterer, an ambitious collaborator or even a young photographer with insolent charm... All have a motive for this heinous crime.
A golf course is a perfect place to relax but also... to get murdered. This is what Magellan discovers when he arrives on hole n° 9 of the golf course of the prestigious Grenier family to witness the death of the future husband of the heiress. But our hero is not welcome in the affairs of this family on which weighs a real lead...
Jennifer, a scholarship holder from the prestigious Sainte-Marie establishment, is murdered outside the school walls. Magellan returns to school to explore a world of excellence. Students from the largest families tear each other apart, make mistakes and compete with each other. And their parents are as much, if not more, responsible... Between Jennifer's lover, thirty years her senior, a headmaster obsessed with the tarnished prestige of an establishment in which the new director alone supported the arrival of scholarship holders, potential assassins are not lacking in Sainte-Marie. But everything gets complicated with the death of Roxane, a professor a little too close to the hidden affairs of the leaders...
During the final of the Miss Saignac election organized at the Jouvence complex by the director Patrick Lansay, in the presence of a jury chaired by France Serrao, the party is in full swing when Alice wins the title. But, even before she can celebrate her election, she is assaulted and left for dead in the park of the institute. Touched by this young girl who struggles between life and death, Magellan will plunge into the world of beauty contests. He will do everything to try to find the culprit. A track seems to be emerging in the young girl's past.
During a hunting trip, Hubert Mouillot, self-made man and big boss in the beer industry, is killed by a bullet in the heart...Very quickly, Magellan has the intuition that it is not a simple hunting accident and that the murderer is among the few people who accompanied him on his hunt. But between Bénédicte Lafage, the sensual writer with a sulphurous private life, François Latournerie, the profiteering dandy heir to a competing company, Bernard, the best friend who seems to have many secrets to hide, Blanche, the tortured daughter of the victim, motives are not lacking.
An abandoned mansion, crossed by the winds, as if inhabited by a strange force, shutters slamming, and suddenly an upstairs window shattered... The body of Raphaël Forest, its owner, crushed to the ground, dead, with an indescribable expression of terror on his face... Is Raphaël the last victim of the ghost which, according to popular rumour, has haunted this house for almost a century? Or was he killed by a much more current and solid murderer? This is what Commissioner Magellan will have to unravel, helped by the medium Eléonore Gonet...
Franck, the director of a Relais & Châteaux, is found murdered in his office. His trunk having been emptied, everything suggests that it is a burglary that went wrong, especially since the room of one of the customers was also visited the day before. But Magellan has the intuition that the murderer is rather part of the relatives of the victim or regulars of the hotel. Between Michelle, the housekeeper suspected of having stolen objects from the rooms, Gauthier, a demanding client whom Franck caught in the middle of an argument with his wife, and a mysterious young woman who had asked to see the director shortly before. his death, the tracks multiply... Until Magellan discovers a strange video-surveillance system which could be one of the keys to the enigma...
Alexandre Kremer, an illusionist with an international reputation, ends his tour in Saignac, the city where he made his stage debut. A few days before the performance, Alexandre participates in a party organised in his honour by former classmates in the gymnasium of the high school where he attended his schooling. Shortly after the evening, Alexandre is found dead. The investigation begins, to try to determine who, among his former friends, would have had an interest in wishing for his disappearance. Could one of them be the culprit? Was the murder premeditated? Commissioner Magellan begins the investigation...
Christine directs the Étoiles de Saignac, a troupe of majorettes which she also trains. It is with relentlessness and conviction that she prepares her daughters for the regional competition which is soon to take place. The troupe is also sponsored by the Delcombe workshops, the luxury clothing factory which employs Christine. One evening of training, she is found dead in the office of the rehearsal room. The company safe, wide open, was looted. This unexpected death raises countless questions about Christine's life and her relationships. Who was she really?
While the entire staff of Le Lys vert restaurant is celebrating getting their third plate, its emblematic young chef, Amélie Dampierre, is murdered in her kitchen. Jealousy of a competing restaurateur? Revenge of the victim's second? Or outburst from her ex-husband? Magellan understands that the verdict of the famous Livarel guide was rigged and that this third plate may have been wrongly attributed. From then on, only one question arises: what secret was Amélie hiding that could have caused her loss? Magellan investigates...
Opale Thalasso, directed by Justine Reynal, has relaunched its activity by teaming up with a popular nutritionist, Marc de Vilde. But one morning, Célia, a 30-year-old physiotherapist and sister of Justine, is found murdered in the swimming pool of the thalassotherapy centre. The investigation reveals that Célia was in a relationship with a former drug addict suspected of criminal activities. Would he be guilty? The investigation begins against a backdrop of romantic rivalries and family tensions.
The party is still in full swing during the traditional firefighters' ball at the Saignac barracks when Lieutenant Larrivet leaves the premises to sleep a little... A sleep that will last forever since, on arriving at his apartment, he receives a violent blow on the skull. Is it a settling of accounts in love? Or an exacerbated professional rivalry? Magellan and Selma immediately go to the scene and conduct their interrogations with circumspection.
Camille Delattre, heiress of a prestigious crystal factory, returns to France for a few days to reconnect with her family after twenty years of exile. The young woman is murdered as soon as she arrives in the country, a piece of a statuette in her hand. From then on, Magellan was convinced that his death was linked to the real reasons for his return to Saignac. Was she killed by her New York lover who followed her here? By counterfeiters whose traffic she would have discovered? Or by the creator of the crystal statuette with whom she seemed to have very old ties? Unless the reasons for his death are to be found in his own family history...
They were four friends, united by the same passion for cycling. But when the most charismatic of them, Vincent Dareau, former cycling champion, is found murdered, all this beautiful friendship is shattered. Between the unspoken, the old resentments and the betrayals, Commissioner Magellan and Lieutenant Selma Berraya will have to unravel the true nature of the relations between these men and women that nothing could have separated without this tragic event.
The Delandin gallery is preparing to exhibit the work of Tristan Garil, a promising photographer, when Estelle Delandin, its director and founder, is assassinated. Very quickly, Superintendent Magellan and Lieutenant Selma Berraya acquire the certainty that the murderer or the murderer is among the relatives of the victim. Between power struggles, conflicts of interest and everyone's well-kept secrets, our investigators will dive into the world of art and everyone's dreams to shine there.
While the beer festival is in full swing in Saignac, the corpse of Christophe Diaz is found at the Trois Amis brewery. The future of the young brewer was most promising: he had just won the prize for the best craft beer. But behind this success hides a family and conflicting rivalry with his stepfather Claude Verague, also a brewer. Christophe had married Virginie, Claude's daughter.
At the Saignac zoo, the alarm sounds, indicating the faulty closing of the door of a vivarium. Left alone in the park, the director, Franck Landry, decides to go check it out for himself and finds himself facing a snake. In the early morning, Chloe, the animal chief finds Franck's body. A hole had been drilled in the snake's glass enclosure. Who was so angry with Franck? Fabienne, the zoo visits manager, whom Sabine, Franck's veterinarian and mistress, instantly accuses? Laure Cléry, the owner of the zoo? Stan Cléry, his son, to whom the place of manager of the establishment should logically go ... and that his mother rejected in favor of Franck?
In the dead of night, alone in front of the immense telescope of the Saignac observatory, the astrophysicist Grégoire Laroche is suddenly attracted by a noise in the adjoining room. He comes out with a punch planted in the chest. The bruise on his face might suggest he fought before he died, but the sore predates the time of death. Jérôme Morel, Laroche's colleague, affirms that he was a very gentle man, appreciated by his students and who, in addition to his university courses, had given life to this observatory. What if his death was linked to his astronomical observations?
Lucie Mauricourt and Loréna Bardin are two rough diamonds. Young skaters called to the greatest athletic destinies and shaped by one and the same coach, the former Olympic champion Audrey Galvi. However, the life of these two young girls is turned upside down the night Audrey is murdered. Commissioner Magellan and Lieutenant Selma Barraya will have to investigate slippery ground, between sporting rivalries, betrayals and resentments of the past! But the distorting mirror of the ice could reveal a whole other truth ...
Adrien Beauval is back in Saignac for the signing of his latest successful detective story. But his announcement to end the adventures of his famous investigator resonates like a thunderclap for his fans as for his relatives. Is it for this reason that he is assassinated the same evening? Or for one of the many secrets that the writer jealously kept under his pen and that he was about to reveal? Commissioner Magellan and Lieutenant Selma Berrayah will have to learn to read between the lines of the novel of his life to discover the real culprit ...
Aurélien Berger is a wedding planner. Patron of the company 'To the happiness of others', he devoted his life to making happy those who wanted to unite. The wedding that takes place that evening is a bit special, since it is Aurélien's own daughter who is getting married, his daughter whom he has raised alone since the tragic death of his wife. That's why he gave everything to make it the most beautiful wedding he has ever organized. Alas, the party will turn tragic, when Aurélien is found dead, murdered. The investigation by Commissioner Magellan will gradually reveal heavy secrets, buried for too long ...
Corporal Mareski, a member of an elite marine infantry commando, returns to his garrison after leave when he is the victim of a fatal traffic accident. Convinced that it is a murder, Magellan opens an investigation and quickly becomes convinced that the culprit can only be one of the soldiers of the military base. Forced to work in collaboration with Commander Delphine Blomel, a member of the General Control of the Armed Forces, Magellan immediately comes up against the mistrust of the members of the unit to which the victim belonged. Mistrust which turns into frank hostility when he begins to suspect Sergeant Sophie Le Guen, head of the commando and war heroine adored by his men ...
Singer Mathieu Deschamps had his heyday before abruptly interrupting his career. If some of his refrains are still on everyone's lips, he has been somewhat forgotten. After years of absence, he was finally preparing his comeback with a new album and a tour throughout France. But that evening, as he finished recording his last song, he was murdered in his music studio. Who was angry with this man enough to keep him from coming back on stage? Commissioner Magellan and Lieutenant Berraya will have to compete in insight to answer this question and uncover the assassin.
