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During her investigation into the murder of a wealthy director of a jewelry store, Samuel Avenberg, Alice finds Mathieu Brémond, with whom she lived a love affair at the faculty. Anton Avenberg, CEO of the jewelry and father of the victim, discovered the body of his son in their mansion. His statements direct the investigation to the trail of a burglary that would have gone wrong. Mathieu, who has become a "hunter" of precious stones on behalf of the victim, is heard as a witness while suspicions fall on Betty Chassard, a young thief who was on the scene at the time of the murder. Alice will discover a world of pretense locked by secrecy and complicated family relationships.
Alice Nevers and Marquand are faced with a crime a priori impulsive: Valérie Simon, liquidator agent, was murdered in her office with her own paper cutter. Is it a liquidated company that does not accept bankruptcy? Alice and Marquand discover the world of the commercial court, its judicial liquidators and its judges, who decide the fate of companies in difficulty.
Alice Nevers investigates the death of a young girl, a model student of a Parisian high school. Apparently the victim was raped after being bound and gagged. Helped in her research by a mysterious anonymous letter, Alice Nevers soon suspects two other students of the school. Especially since the evidence is accumulating against the two young people. But the judge has a doubt. She feels manipulated. The case is more complicated than it seems. By pushing the heavy door of the National School of Political Economy, Alice Nevers discovers a world apart. A world of appearances and pretenses. Where the best rubs shoulders with the worst. Where some are willing to kill so as not to disappoint.
A specialist in organ transplants, Professor Frédéric Berg was found murdered in an amphitheater of the faculty where he was giving lectures, vitriolized. An atrocious death that Alice quickly interprets as revenge. The discovery of a naughty text message, giving Berg an appointment at the scene of the tragedy, first directs the investigation towards a crime of passion. But the discovery in the Seine of the body of Philippe Rigault, a former patient of Berg, shifts research towards the medical world...
Sarah Rambaldi, famous - and wealthy - plastic surgeon is found strangled in a squalid hotel room. Her husband, Michel, believed her to be in Lille where she went one week a month to teach. Commander Marquand and Judge Alice Nevers discover that Sarah had made large - and unusual - cash withdrawals a few days before the murder. Very quickly, a first suspect is designated. The fingerprints of Serge Francard, hitman recently escaped from prison, are found at the crime scene and on personal belongings of the victim...
Judge Alice Nevers and Commander Marquand investigate the death of a renowned architect: Paul Reno. The victim lived with Sasha, a man with whom he had a son named Jeremy. Indeed, Paul conceived the child with one of his old friends, Virginie. Both fathers and mother raised Jeremy in alternate custody. Alice Nevers and Marquand discover that Paul and Sacha had quarrelled a few days before Paul's death. But, according to Sacha, things had worked out and the couple had reconciled...
