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Crossover episode with TV Series "Magellan". As they walk along a roadside at night, two young women are hit by a driver. Sabine was killed instantly, while Laurène survived. In shock, she told investigators that the driver had run away but could hardly remember anything. Magellan suspects an apprentice garage mechanic, convicted in the past. In his defence, he called on Mongeville, a former magistrate and friend of Magellan.
When Delphine, the eccentric curator of a painting exhibition, vanishes with the masterpiece of the collection, everything indicates a cleverly premeditated theft. Unless this disappearance is a staging of which Delphine would be the victim, and which would explain why she had alerted two former "acquaintances", Mongeville and Magellan. In Bordeaux, the ground of their former love rivalry, the two accomplices will have to find this woman they have madly loved, but also tame his daughter. For if everyone hopes to be the providential man who will bring him his mother, the indomitable Sara is reluctant to let herself be patronized.
In Bordeaux, Antoine Mongeville, a former investigating judge, meets Axelle Ferrano, an investigator for the judicial police. While the former magistrate seems to be interested in the disappearances of young women, Axelle, for his part, tries to understand the inexplicable suicide of a business leader. During their investigations, Antoine and Axelle are forced to collaborate. Despite their often difficult relationship and their diametrically opposed temperaments, the former judge and the young policewoman discover that, despite everything, many things bring them together...
Father Mazard, former director of the St Louis boarding school, closed for thirty years, was found dead in the establishment. Lieutenant Axelle Ferrano, of the SRPJ of Bordeaux, seeks the help of Judge Mongeville, who has evidence on an obscure case dating back to the late 1970s: a student of St Louis had been suspected of having voluntarily caused the drowning of one of his classmates in the Garonne. With Axelle's help, Mongeville goes back even further. In the 1930s, the building already housed an orphanage. Therein lies the key to Mazard's murder, committed nearly 80 years later...
Mongeville attended the funeral of his friend Judge Delvaux, victim before his eyes of a car bomb attack. Axelle identifies a suspect. Formerly sentenced by Delvaux and Mongeville to 12 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Arnaud Huchet has just been released from prison, determined to take revenge. Is Mongeville threatened? He begins to doubt. What if, after all, Huchet had been innocent? He decides to go and explain himself with him. But it is already too late. Huchet was in turn assassinated. In order to solve this mystery, Axelle and Mongeville take up the case of the murder of Alice Huchet from the beginning, without suspecting that they will put their finger on a terrible machination...
Mortelle mélodie, makes us discover a facet of Judge Mongeville hitherto only interviewed: his taste for music, especially for voices. It is during a concert he attends in a Bordeaux church that the tragedy occurs: the choir director succumbs to a heart attack. For Mongeville, it was a suspicious death. But he is the only one who believes it! Leading a very unofficial investigation, he ends up uncovering secrets that could hide a perfect murder... But it is at this moment that Valentine, a young Captain of Police who is also determined to bring out the truth, intervenes. She is funny, clever, full of life... And they will have to get to know each other to work well together. On a personal level, Mongeville finally finds the trace of his daughter who had disappeared for several years without ever giving any sign of life...
Judge Mongeville receives a cry for help from Jeanne Marsac, a childhood friend whose husband died under strange circumstances. The police are conducting the investigation under the leadership of Captain Valentine Duteil, whom the judge knows well. Jeanne invites Mongeville to the magnificent property where she lives with her two sons, her two daughters-in-law and her grandson... Their reunion is moving. In the past, they had lived a great and beautiful love story. And then life separated them, and Jeanne married Pierre Marsac who proved to be a tough and authoritarian man. Besides, his death does not trouble anyone in the family. Everything seems to prove that the culprit is a relative. With the help of the funny and sympathetic Captain Valentine Duteil, Mongeville leads the investigation, revealing more or less shameful secrets, resentments, jealousies.
The body of a young woman was found in a car wreck and everything suggests that the murderer is not at his first attempt. Judge Mongeville and Captain Valentine Duteil start the investigation: Mongeville feels that this case is more serious than it seems. Indeed, the woman was killed in the same circumstances as another victim seven years ago. At the time Mongeville was in charge of the file and he had exonerated a certain Jacques Charpentier. Released, he had left Bordeaux and the real murderer had never been found. But Charpentier has just returned to Bordeaux to get married! The police interrogated him and it turned out that Charpentier had no solid alibi. Worse, his attitude seems offbeat, strange... Apart from Mongeville, everyone wonders if Charpentier would not finally be the murderer! But that means Mongeville was wrong seven years ago... Consumed by uncertainty, he decided to start the investigation from scratch.
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.
In the enchanting setting of a Relais & Château, a waitress of the restaurant is found dead, drowned in the pool. The customers of the establishment, executives of an organic cosmetics company, do not seem completely foreign to this crime. Mongeville and Valentine will discover a microcosm where power struggles are ruthless.
A young and talented doctor is found murdered in the doctor's office where he was providing a replacement. the investigation quickly turns to his future in-laws: the Dampierres, a perfume empire. Unless we have to suspect Captain Duteil, mysteriously present at the scene of the crime, and who knew the victim much more than she wants to recognize...
Editor-in-chief of the daily Grand Ouest, Valéry Prat announces his suicide "on the front page" before throwing himself from the sixth floor of his office. A sordid staging that soon reveals a real crime. Prat had not only made friends on the paths to glory. Resentful collaborators, duped partners, collateral victims of his editorial choices: all had a good reason to get rid of a journalist too cumbersome before he joined Paris to found his own magazine.
Warned of a danger at the medieval castle of Roquenoire, Mongeville and Valentine attend helplessly to the commission of an inexplicable crime. Behind the thick iron door that separates them from the donjon, Laurence de Sidonia is murdered live, without one finding either murder weapon or trace of the murderer. While Valentine tries to unravel the mystery of this perfect crime, Mongeville explores the meanders of this rich aristocratic family. Between the ghosts of the past and the rivalries of the present, a hazy investigation into the closed doors of the ramparts ...
Elias, new darling of the world of archeology, is found murdered in the excavation site of the Bordeaux region where he worked. Has he been the victim of his success, or of the mysteries of his past as an adventurer? Unless his death is linked to the disappearance of a rare Paleolithic Venus, freshly exhumed, and deemed accursed. To unearth the secrets of the victim, Mongeville and Valentine will have to investigate with the pick and the brush.
In a container of the autonomous port of Bordeaux, we find the lifeless body of Henri Blondel, a powerful local shipowner. Was he the tough, ruthless man his family describes, or the complex boss his men adored? In the middle of cranes and freighters, Mongeville and Valentine set sail for an investigation of the docks.
A farm worker is found dead, asphyxiated in a barn fire. After a radical conversion, this "girl of the city" worked for "La ferme de Louise", a small organic and militant farm run by a family disunited since the suicide of the father, a year earlier. In the middle of fields and orchards, Mongeville and Valentine put on their boots for an investigation in the heart of the Gironde terroir, in a peasant world under tension.
On holiday at a thalasso centre in the Cyclades, Greece, Mongeville witnessed the death of 24-year-old communication student Léa. His body was found in the pool with, nearby, sleeping pills and alcohol. A suicide seems obvious. But Mongeville has his doubts. He invites Captain Valentine Duteil to join him to investigate. Between massage sessions and detox cure, the duo interviews picturesque spa guests. Theatre star Barbara Lenoir and former skating champion Cyril Meynard are all suspects.
In the silence of a Carmelite convent, Sister Amélie is found murdered in a penitential position. Was she killed by the angry father who accused her of having enlisted his daughter, a young novice who was about to take her vows? Or by this bankrupt printer, stifled by competition from the convent's calligraphy workshop? Unless the crime is linked to the double life of the victim, who was about to leave the orders to reconnect with his mysterious past. Under the gothic vaults of the cloister or in the intimacy of the cells, Mongeville and Valentine will have to keep the faith to unravel an investigation where piety reveals multiple faces...
In the heart of the Pyrenean summits, a high mountain guide is killed in a paragliding accident... which turns out to be a crime with a good deal of premeditation. Who wanted to get rid of this mountaineering legend, settled for ten years in this small village in the Basque Country where he lives with his wife, Ariane, a rich heiress of the valley? Unless this romantic love story hides a strange and elusive couple, ready to do anything not to let the passion erode. From steep trails to high altitude huts, Mongeville and Valentine put on their mountain boots for a dizzying investigation.
On a country road, rescue workers are deployed to help the many victims of a bus accident. Although this is only a full-scale exercise, it is soon discovered that a "breastplate", a fake victim of the simulation, has actually died after receiving a lethal dose of morphine. Who wanted to get rid of this Lyon firefighter who was as heroic as he was exemplary? Wanting to play the role of righting wrongs, this modern-day vigilante may well have paid for it with his life. In the heart of the sappers' barracks or in the middle of perilous interventions, Mongeville and Valentine interfere in the very discreet body of the "fire soldiers" for an investigation on burning coals.
At the theatre, while attending an open rehearsal of "Tartuffe", Mongeville witnesses the murder of the young actress who plays the leading role, hurried from a footbridge overlooking the stage. Did this unfortunate "Elvire" fall victim to a jealous actress, a possessive boyfriend or a director who would do anything to ensure the success of the play? Unless her death is linked to this ambiguous director, as famous for his artistic creations as for his countless female conquests.
A business owner is found dead in the middle of his looms, strangled by one of the precious silk scarves produced by his renowned workshop. Retaliation of a silky after a social conflict managed too brutally? Attempt to intimidate the boss of a flagship of luxury, indispensable customer of the manufacture? Or fratricidal revenge against a backdrop of succession conflict? Between centuries-old Canuts workshops and trendy fashion showrooms, an investigation that will give Mongeville and Valentine a hard time...
