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Owners of a large equestrian center in the Bordeaux region, the Vanniers are looking for their daughter, Emilie, a talented young rider who has mysteriously disappeared. Antoine Mongeville tries to find her with Valentine's help, but has no clue. He then investigates with the Vanniers, uncovering secrets that this rich family would have preferred to keep buried.
When Judge Legoff is assassinated in front of the Palais de Justice in Bordeaux, Mongeville and Valentine delve into the past of this austere and rigorous magistrate, known for his absolute integrity, which did not fail to earn him some solid resentment among those he condemned, from the simple father of the family to the deputy of the Republic. It is a difficult investigation that awaits Mongeville for his return to the palace.
In an ornithological reserve, Mongeville and Valentine discover the corpse of a man pierced by an arrow. While interviewing Béatrice Lesparre, a brilliant and eccentric researcher who lives in the reserve, they soon discover that Claire, the scientist's daughter, has also disappeared. Was she killed too? Is she the murderess? This will be an opportunity for the judge and the captain to penetrate further into this strange matriarchy of a fifty-year-old mother, who seems to protect her 25-year-old daughters as if they were 12...
A teacher at the Opera Ballet School, Martin Novak collapsed in the middle of a rehearsal, victim of poisoning with curare – a powerful anesthetic that gradually paralyzed him. Who wanted to kill this living legend of dance, former principal dancer of the Paris Opera? A promising former student who suddenly fell out of favor? The director of the school, who could no longer bear to remain in the shadow of this overly popular teacher? Unless the solution lies in the victim's troubled past, carefully rewritten in the light of his celebrity. It is an investigation on half-points that awaits Mongeville and Valentine...
While having lunch at La Table de Pierre, a great restaurant in Bordeaux, the food critic Julie Decker collapsed, struck down by hemlock poisoning. Is she the victim of Lelandais, the chef of the restaurant who has never forgiven her for the star he has lost? Did she suffer the wrath of a brotherhood of leaders who had banded together against the methods of criticism? To solve this mystery, Mongeville and Valentine interfere in the kitchens of great gastronomy.
Daniel Vergne, a wealthy entrepreneur, is found dead by poisoning in his hotel room in Bordeaux. He had made his fortune in Silicon Valley and returned to the city of his youth at a "New Tech" show. At the time of his death, he had just had dinner with his former prep classmates. During their investigations, Mongeville and Valentine discover a façade of friendship.
