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The corpse of Yanne Tessier, a sales representative without stories, quickly directs the police to a crime of passion. The hypothesis seems all the more plausible because according to Jean-Yves Renac, the victim's best friend, his wife, Camille, was sickly jealous. However, the indictment of Camille Tessier does not completely convince Alice Nevers...
Gendreau, a leading Parisian judge, is accused of the murder of Rémi, a young homosexual found stabbed at the magistrate's home. It is our heroine who is in charge of this case, oh so delicate: it is only never easy to investigate one of his own peers, but in addition, Gendreau was in the past Alice's law professor...
Wenger-Printz, a decidedly very lucky player, accumulates winnings at the blackjack table of a large casino. Didier Cassard, the director of the establishment, suspects him of cheating. Alongside Wenger-Printz, an ambitious player, Fabienne, is trying to hit the jackpot. To complete this line-up of specialists, Anita Fargier arrives. The latter, inspector of the gaming police, has the mission to monitor Wenger-Printz and check if he is honest. Anita is surprised to find that, as soon as she arrives, Wenger-Printz loses blow after blow. All of his previous earnings go there. Anita leaves empty-handed. As she stands in the parking lot, she is coldly shot. Judge Alice Nevers inherits the case
Stéphane Dega, owner of a gymnastics club with Franck Mattot, is found in a sports hall, his trachea crushed by a dumbbell. Alice Nevers, who inherited the case, thinks it is a murder disguised as an accident. She begins by suspecting Laetitia Milano, Dega's girlfriend. After initially fleeing, Laetitia decides to go to the police, on the advice of her nutritionist, Solange Sheipar. Facing Alice Nevers, Laetitia claims her innocence. The judge notified him of his detention and continued his investigation. Who had an interest in making Dega disappear? The answer may lie in his workplace...
The body of Natacha, a former model, is found in a vacant lot. Alice Nevers is immediately in charge of the investigation. She begins her investigations by taking a very close interest in the ex-lover of the young woman. Quickly, the man even acts as the main suspect. But the investigation rebounds when Alice goes to the agency that employed Natacha. Obviously, the company, masterfully run by a certain Betty, makes ends meet through activities that are not necessarily legal. Would it be pimping? Or an even more lucrative traffic that Natasha was perhaps about to denounce? Alice is determined to make Betty talk...
While investigating a delicate matter, Lieutenant Franck Morel is the victim of an assault. Found dead by his colleagues, he leaves a young widow, Ghislaine. It is Judge Alice Nevers, accompanied by Commissioner Duval, boss of the anti-gang brigade, who is responsible for announcing the tragic news to the unfortunate. The young woman collapsed. Alice Nevers opens the investigation. His suspicions are focused on a mobster named Ravier. Challenged, Ravier provides an unassailable alibi. Commissioner Duval refuses to stop there. For him, Ravier is necessarily guilty. Duval is ready to use all means to extract from him the confession ...
Gilles Bertrand, a drug addict, is found dead in the port of the Bastille. He had a 7-year-old child, Clement, who is being raised by his grandparents. Romance and Judge Nevers learn that Celine, the boy's mother, who has been incarcerated for six years, was released the day before the murder.
The body of François Claret, owner of the famous gastronomic guide Claret, is found in his apartment by poisoning. Very quickly convinced of the innocence of François Claret's wife, Judge Alice Nevers investigates with Lieutenant Romance in the restaurant industry. All tracks lead to Jacques Villeroy, owner of a restaurant classified "3 stars". In the latest edition of the Claret guide, its restorer has lost a star. And his relations with Sautereau, the Director General of the Guide Claret, who succeeds François Claret, are dubious to say the least. While investigating Jacques Villeroy's past, Alice Nevers will discover that François Claret and him were linked for a very long time. Alice Nevers and Lieutenant Romance will manage to unmask the culprit by saving Jacques Villeroy from the premeditated revenge of the murderer.
Francis Paoli, director of Olfasens, a perfume creation company, is found dead in his office. The main suspect of investigating judge Alice Nevers is Jean-Louis Sampers, a collaborator of the victim. Indeed, Paoli and Sampers had had a violent argument during a reception on the night of the murder.
Investigating judge Alice Nevers and Lieutenant Romance investigate the murder of Julien Charvet, a health inspector at the Rungis market. He was found in the trunk of a crashed car whose driver fled. Guided by the director of market security, they learn that the victim had, a few days earlier, a violent altercation with a butcher boy.
Nathalie Perros, a young female fire brigade officer, was shot dead during an intervention in a difficult neighbourhood. At first, suspicions are focused on Tony Serrano, a young man from the city, known for having assaulted firefighters in the past. However, the judge explores another much more delicate track: that of the young woman's colleagues. Alice Nevers is indeed certain that the murder was premeditated. Two men at the Saint-Marc barracks find themselves in the judge's sights: Sergeant Armandin, an officer with a shady temperament who could have killed Nathalie out of professional jealousy, and Major Roissy, head of the rescue center who seemed to harbor a tenacious resentment towards the victim linked to a personal tragedy.
Judge Alice Nevers and Lieutenant Romance are dispatched to the forest of Rambouillet, scene of a macabre discovery. A man was murdered with a log. This is Christophe Fontaine, marketing director at Galactik, a company specializing in the search for new tastes for soft drinks. Guided by Jean-Luc Alençon, the CEO of Galactik, uncle of the victim, Alice Nevers and Romance discover that Fontaine was a solitary man whose odious character was not unanimous. The latest enmity: his altercation, on the day of his death, with Gabrielle Soyer, a biologist he had been harassing for months over professional disagreements. Fontaine would have, moreover, ordered an investigation on Gabrielle with revelations to the key...
The investigating judge Alice Nevers and Lieutenant Romance track down a serial killer who leaves on the body of his victims, women in their thirties unrelated to each other, a lady of heart on the back of which are mysterious messages. In order to better understand the killer, Alice enlists the services of Eva Camus, a profiler.
Karine Sandri, an attractive young woman, is found dead in her apartment. No trace of break-in and no theft at first sight. Alice Nevers, investigating judge, and Lieutenant Romance consider the thesis of an accident, an argument that would have gone wrong. The day before, the victim had, in fact, violently opposed Mr. Moine, the director of human resources of the company for which she worked as a hostess. The robotic port of a witness attests to the hasty exit of Mr. Moine from the building of Karine Sandri, a few hours after his death. What did he do to a company employee at twenty-two hours?
Installed at the blackjack table of a casino, Wenger, a player is closely monitored by the services of director Didier Cassard. Insolent luck or cheating, he accumulates the winnings without being able to pierce the secret of his game. At his side, Fabienne, an attractive player, accustomed to the place also tries to win the Jackpot. With the arrival of a new player, Anita Fargier, inspector of the Gaming Police, Wenger seems to have suddenly lost his hand.
While investigating the murder of a young woman named Emmanuelle, Alice Nevers and Romance are led to take an interest in the world of online dating. Registered on Intimité.com the victim may have met her killer, who would then have approached her at the bar "Le Totem", during the monthly evening organized by the site. This is at least the opinion of Emmanuelle's best friend, Anne-Sophie Legris, also registered on the site for the purposes of an article and trapped by a boy blackmailer that Emmanuelle also interested in the highest point
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...
Nathalie, a twenty-two-year-old woman, is found dead in the middle of the night in the lobby of her sister's building. The mystery thickens when we discover that the victim was autistic and lived in an institution from which it is, in theory, impossible to escape... The investigation comes on a very special day in Alice's life: she must visit Mathieu in prison and introduce him to her son for the first time.
Julie, 21, was pushed off a railing in her law school library. By immersing herself in the young woman's life, Alice discovers that she was living far beyond her means. Marquand has only one word to sum up his intuition: prostitution. At the same time, Alice is destabilized when her father arrives to convince her to change her life and leave Paris...
Father Jérôme Deslauriers, a figure of a Caribbean community in Paris, collapsed in his church while officiating for a wedding. Alice directs her investigation to Gabrielle when she discovers that this woman was Jerome's clandestine companion and the mother of their sixteen-year-old daughter, Elise. In front of the steps of the Palais de Justice, Mathieu surprises Alice: he has obtained permission for the day.
Adrien Garnier, a thirty-five-year-old man selling for a scooter manufacturer, was stabbed. However, Adrien's wife has been living in a wheelchair since an accident due to a manufacturing defect in her scooter. How could Adrien work for the company that had disabled his wife? In order to release Mathieu on parole, Alice must convince Marquand to testify on his behalf...
Sophie Bellanger was strangled in the high school where she taught. Alice discovers videos on students' mobile phones. On numerous occasions, the young teacher had been filmed without her knowledge during the day, at night and even at her home during her sleep. The author of the videos is a certain "Super scum". Alice must investigate without Marquand, still in the hospital since he saved her life. She visits him very regularly...
The body of Dany Swing is found in the crushed sheets of his van in a car wreck. Author of a hit in the 80s, which only Marquand remembers, he had converted into galas for retirement homes. Everyone loved him, who could blame him? Alice wants to give her relationship with Mathieu a chance, but her father is determined to bring her closer to Marquand...
Nelly Guyot, a talented Michelin-starred chef, is stabbed in her kitchen. Her relatives say she lived only for her job. But Alice and Marquand soon discover that she had a parallel life: she was "chatting" on a social network pretending to be a teenager... Marquand has struggled to find her feet since Alice made the choice to live with Mathieu.
Philippe Llorens is found dead, suffocated, in his office at the veterinary school. Alice and Marquand discover that this great professor was linked to a group of activists fighting against intensive pet farming. For her part, Alice is worried because Mathieu is lying to her. What if he had plunged back into diamond trafficking?...
Karim Benhaoui is found dead in his store, a destocking supermarket that sells products close to the expiry date at low prices. He was a director respected and loved by all. Why was he locked in a cold room at minus 21 degrees? Alice still feels attraction to Marquand...
The body of Isabelle Doré, a beautiful young woman aged thirty, is found at dawn in the courtyard of her building. Gagged, her hands tied, she was probably thrown from the window of her apartment. But how could his roommate, who was sleeping in the room next door, not hear anything? At the same time, Alice's private life accelerates when Mathieu asks her to marry him.
Natalia Galati, a pretty thirty-year-old Romanian woman who has been France for a few months, was murdered in her parking lot, a few hours before her marriage to Alexandre, a sixty-two-year-old Frenchman. Was it a white wedding, a gray wedding? Alice falls from the clouds when she learns that Marquand has applied for a transfer.
Françoise Forestier is found dead at the foot of a city, a bar of "shit" in her pocket. This farmer, a mother, had nothing to reproach herself. The mystery thickens when we discover that the "shit" comes from a batch seized three years ago... Marquand understands that Mathieu has returned to trafficking in precious stones. He decides to catch him red-handed without telling Alice...
Released from the hospital, Marquand looks for a new apartment. Early to the appointment, he waits in his car when Lisa, the real estate agent he was waiting for, crashes on the roof of his vehicle. She was strangled before being pushed. Alice Nevers is in charge of the investigation and reconnects for the occasion with Commander Marquand. Together, they discover that Lisa had left her husband and was living in his car.
Alice and Marquand investigate the death of Hadrian, a web star, murdered live during his column. He had ingested poisoned food. The judge discovers that because of his impertinent humor Hadrian had made enemies. Meanwhile, Alice learns that she is suspected of having organized the escape of Mathieu, who disappeared from the hospital.
In the middle of the night, Annette Martial, a 22-year-old nanny, is found dead at the home of her employers, Edouard and Margaux Laroque. Alice and Marquand interrogate them and also try to find out more about the victim. But many grey areas remain around it. Soon after, Marquand discovers that the Laroques were spying on Annette via a camera hidden in a teddy bear.
Naïma Roussel, co-director with her husband Olivier of a wedding dress workshop, was murdered. The victim was stabbed with a pair of sewing scissors. According to the employees of the workshop, Naïma and Olivier spun the perfect love. Alice turns to the trail of a crime of passion. Soon after, Marquand interrogates Naima's judo teacher and makes a discovery about the victim's private life.
Francis Bosco, caretaker of a housing estate, is found murdered. According to initial findings, the victim was killed with an electric baton. The jogger who discovered the body explains to Alice that Bosco, a former gendarme, had been hired to ensure the security of the neighborhood. To do this, he had supervised the installation of surveillance cameras on every street corner. Alice and Marquand try to find out more about the victim's private life.
Alice and Marquand are called to the scene of a crime. Maëlle Leguénec, a young hip-hop teacher, was found dead in the centre where she taught. Marquand discovers that the week before his death the victim had gone to Tours in secret. Along with this affair, Alice must face Mathieu's return. He is about to leave the country and asks him to follow him to Brazil.
Alice is visited by Mathieu, who is wounded. He is convinced that the prosecutor in charge of the case against him is trying to eliminate him. He again begs Alice to flee with him to Brazil. At the same time, the judge is called to the scene of a homicide. A soldier was stabbed in her sleep at the home of Joss Ferrat, a senior reporter. The latter is found hidden in his cellar and accuses himself of the murder.
Marquand and Max intervene at Sergeant Foucault's home just before an explosion occurs. The two policemen escaped unharmed but the soldier was killed instantly. Alice finds herself in a very delicate situation. His life and that of his son are threatened. Marquand decides to personally ensure the protection of the judge. Soon after, the two return to question Lieutenant Torrens.
Accused of having helped the father of her son to flee with diamonds, Alice risks prison. She can't help seeing Marquand when he has to be the main witness for her defence. Prosecutor Divo uses this misstep to prevent Marquand's testimony. A corpse is then found in the basement of the courthouse. Victor, Alice's clerk, is suspected of murder.
Judge Nevers and Major Marquand go to a crime scene in a wood: Michel Aubry, a piano teacher, was hit by his own car in the middle of the night. The duo find Muriel, Aubry's wife, in bed with another man, and learn that the couple have been swinging for fifteen years. Moreover, Marquand, finally free to love Alice, is caught up in his past.
In a convent, a nun dies in the arms of a boarder, Corinne Leblanc, a former prisoner with a heavy criminal record. The victim, Sister Bénédicte, 39, succumbed to paralysis of the respiratory tract, probably caused by the ingestion of belladonna. At the same time, Lucie, Commander Marquand's daughter, is hospitalized following a suicide attempt, while she is pregnant.
Matteo Fabrizzi, an authoritarian and temperamental fashion designer, is fatally assaulted shortly after throwing a big tantrum against his staff. He was to present his new collection the following evening. The marks found on the victim's body do not allow the cause of death to be immediately determined. But Matteo was wearing a bulletproof vest, which intrigues investigators.
Alice and Marquand investigate the murder of Sylvain Besse, a dog breeder who had his throat cut with a secateur. During their investigation, they discover that he was selling his sperm on the internet to pay off his various debts. His wife and son were completely unaware of his lucrative and illicit activity. At the same time, Alice sees Marquand moving away from her.
A teenager, Lisa, 15, is found killed by a bullet in the stomach, dressed in a sequined corset and fishnet stockings, while her father believed her to be lying in her bedroom. Alice and Marquand's investigation quickly turns to the secret and sulphurous world of Skins Parties. At the same time, while she has sworn to Marquand not to meddle in her life anymore, Alice discovers that her daughter continues to lie to her.
A young woman, Rose Leroux, was found hanging in her wedding dress at the site of her wedding ceremony. Alice and Marquand discover that she was under a banking ban, suspected of fraud and attempted murder. She claimed to be a victim of identity theft, but even her husband doubted her. In addition, Lucie admits to Marquand that the father of her future child is threatening to attack her.
Julien Madek, a young man of 20, is found dead at the foot of a staircase. Abducted at the age of twelve, he had just miraculously reappeared and reunited with his loved ones. Judge Nevers and Commander Marquand have the heavy task of telling the mother that her child has been taken from her for the second time. Who could Julien's return bother? In parallel with the investigation, tension rises between Alice and Marquand: he suspects her of harboring Simon, the boy who threatens his daughter.
Louise Chevalier is hit in the middle of Paris by a car. The victim was carrying 50,000 euros in cash. A situation all the more surprising that, a few months earlier, she was only a simple saleswoman. Alice and Marquand, in charge of the case, discover that her destiny has changed when Sarah Al Khoury, a wealthy heiress from the Middle East, takes her under her wing.
Clément Garrel, a brilliant psychology professor, collapses in the middle of class, shot twice in the heart. During their investigation, Alice and Marquand discover that the victim had, five years earlier, participated in an extreme psychological experiment. No participant emerged unscathed.
Following the scalpel blow she received, Alice was taken to the ward for emergency intervention. But nothing goes as planned: while she seems out of danger, the machines panic and her heart rate accelerates. Alice suddenly has the vision of a dead body swaddled in a shroud and wakes up in the middle of an operation. Commander Marquand has no time to worry: Camille Verdier, expert psychiatrist with the courts, has just fallen strangely from the top of a staircase at the Palace. She was poisoned.
Manon Rizzoli was a teenager without history, friendly leader of a cheerleading team. Nothing that explains why his body is found on the tennis court of the sports complex run by his father. Until we found in a technical room a prayer room and a photo of her wearing a veil: Manon had converted to Islam. Alice returns to see her surgeon: the visions multiply, she can no longer sleep. Dr. Chahine prescribes morphine... Marquand will have to manage Alice while her apartment is requisitioned by an attractive agent for a surveillance mission.
Antoine Perrin, 24, an intern in an investment bank, died while participating in an obstacle course organized by his company. According to the medical examiner, there is no doubt about the murder. The victim, epileptic, died following the intake of an exciting substance. Alice and Marquand quickly realized that all interns were competing fiercely for jobs.
Pierre Leguenec, 56, was found dead in the hospital room of his son Martin, in a vegetative state for three years, following a tragic car accident. Just before the murder, the victim had caught an individual dressed as a clown who had tried to disconnect his son's ventilator. Alice begins by questioning Julia, Martin's wife. She objected to her father-in-law over the extension of her husband's life.
The body of Jenny Peyrac was discovered, the wrist broken and the skull smashed by a jack, in a cement factory. What could have brought this young professor into such a trap? Lieutenant Diakouné may have a lead: she is wearing an electronic bracelet for a robbery committed several years ago. Alice followed Chahine's advice, only hypnosis can help her to trace her memories and discover who is this dead man who comes to haunt her...
Carl Mattéi suffocated to death, his face covered with a plastic bag in the basement of the hotel where he worked. For many, he was a model employee. But the first findings of the coroner seriously shake up the investigation. Carl wore a chest belt to hide... a woman's breast. He was transsexual and didn't want it to be known... Alice found a photo of herself as a child with her parents in a house she has no memory of. One thing is certain, it was just before his mother died. Marquand is right: it is high time she spoke to her father.
Noah alerts the police after seeing the body of a woman on the banks of the Seine. But the victim is not dead and the coroner manages to resuscitate him in extremis. Arriving at the hospital, she runs away in the middle of an examination. Everything suggests that the young woman, visibly traumatized, was raped. Soon after, her boyfriend, David Millot, is found dead at the scene of a historical game.
Alice now remembers the traumatic events of her childhood. She enlists Marquand for help in finding the house where all this happened. Meanwhile, the duo is investigating the death of François Garcia, a 40-year-old antique dealer, who was shot dead at his home in front of his daughter by a fake police commando. The teenager explains to them that they belong to the gypsy community.
Hervé Carpentier, a 43-year-old horse breeder, was found dead in Paris, killed by a hypodermic arrow in the middle of the jugular jugular. One of his stallions has also disappeared. Alice and Marquand go to the stud farm where the victim was working. They collect the testimony of one of his colleagues and announce the news of his death to his wife. Many grey areas surround the provenance of the missing horse.
Florence Raffin, a 40-year-old medical secretary, married and mother, is found dead on a barge. The coroner notes that the victim's wedding ring has been stolen. While digging into Florence's life, the police discover that she was lying to her relatives and regularly connected to a dating site specializing in marital infidelities. Alice and Marquand are interested in his contacts.
Noah was murdered. No one in his neighborhood knew he was a cop. Was he ashamed of his profession? Alice and Marquand learn that he was a volunteer teacher in an improv club: since the Charlie Hebdo massacre, he had been fighting against the conspiracy theories that abound in his city. Did Noah die from standing up for his vision of the Republic? And why, before he died, did he call Leah rather than Marquand? While Marquand decides to give his affair with Léa a chance, Alice asks Chahine her conditions.
Yann, an athletic young man, was murdered in the middle of the night in the Bois de Boulogne. He was a "survivalist", he trained himself to survive in the event of a societal collapse, without electricity, petrol, money, or food... But Alice and Marquand make a discovery that changes everything: until he came of age, Yann grew up isolated from the world, in the middle of nature, after being kidnapped by his father during a divorce gone wrong... To this day, the father has still not been found. Alice's father finds a picture of Chahine with another woman. He decides to confide in Victor.
At a party at her son's school, Alice discovers to her horror the corpse of the headmaster, and Little Paul prostrate not far from the body. Was Alice's son a direct witness to the murder? The investigation revealed that conflicts had recently broken out in the school between teachers and some parents of students who were at war with gender theory. Did the school principal's fight for equality between girls and boys cost him his life? Alice returns to her childhood home and discovers the lie orchestrated by Chahine...
Paloma, 20, has just been murdered. Her parents, who have come to identify the body, do not recognize her: why did she cut her hair? Why did she have the fake breasts she gave her for her 16th birthday removed? Alice and Marquand discover that Paloma had recently joined the feminist group Femen. Why this 180° turn? Until she was the victim of a "revenge porn" site, the young woman had built her entire identity around her beauty... Moved by the tragic fate of little Ada, who lost her parents in Nigeria, Alice puts herself in danger to try to save her.
Audrey, 27, was murdered in the park where she sees her daughter once a week. Her husband never understood why, six months earlier, Audrey had abruptly left them... The mystery becomes more complicated when Alice and Marquand learn that Audrey had recently started free-fighting: she was taking part in clandestine fights in which all blows are allowed... Where did this sudden violence come from? As Ada and Little Paul learn to live together, Alice is once again convinced that Chahine is lying to her...
Emma, a discreet young nurse, was strangled to death by the cable of a video game headset. Her grandmother, who hosted her, explains that Emma had recently overcome an addiction to video games. But her computer proves that she continued to play: she had even become an outstanding "gamer". To climb the ladder in this very masculine world, Emma pretended to be a man. Wouldn't a player have tolerated being beaten by a woman? Alice learns that Chahine has been taken hostage in Nigeria...
The body of 38-year-old Lola was found in a suitcase in the middle of a garbage dump. Some signs are clear: she had recently given birth and was still breastfeeding. Alice and Marquand learn that her boyfriend had recently left her. Marital dispute? When they find him, the latter, drunk, is delirious. He was convinced that the baby was not his. However, Lola cannot have cheated on him because the child was conceived in vitro fertilization. Alice thinks the unthinkable: what if the clinic had agreed to inseminate Lola with an anonymous sperm donation without telling her husband? Alice and Marquand learn that the authorities are unaware of Chahine's kidnapping...
A man is found tied to the gates of the Palais de Justice, unconscious but alive. Her torso has the mark "J-3" written in marker, which puts Alice on the trail of a crime that may soon reach its statute of limitations. Indeed, the man has been accused for years of killing a teenage girl, but the trial never took place due to lack of evidence.
Delphine, a 35-year-old doctor, was strangled in her car. The murder took place two days after the operation of her son Jeremy, who was waiting for a kidney transplant. Jeremy's parents are not compatible and no one seems to know where the transplanted organ came from. Alice and Marquand investigate and discover that the donor is actually Jeremy's biological father, who is incarcerated in La Santé prison. Jeremy was unaware of his biological father's existence, and he died on the operating table. Chahine is back in Paris. Now that she knows the truth, will Alice be able to forgive her?...
Hélène, heiress to a hotel group whose flagship is a country club in the Paris region, is found dead in a neighborhood where she had no reason to go. The investigation reveals that tensions had recently emerged in the establishment, since Hélène had forced her staff to hire Gabriel, a Syrian architect, refugee in France since he had miraculously survived the sinking of the boat that was taking him to Europe...
