Pierre Monjanel

During a performance at the Château de Blois, an industrialist is murdered as he plays the role of Henri III. Arthur, the young actor playing the Duke of Guise, becomes prime suspect. Police Captain Alice Deschamps heads the investigation with her ex and Arthur's father, Detective Inspector Denis Frécant.

The attractive Béatrice Laune has a brilliant career, recently crowned with the award for best advertising creativity of the year. A well-deserved reward, as Béatrice has devoted her entire life to her work. The only fly in the ointment is that, for some time now, the young woman has been fainting every time she is confronted with a baby! The medical diagnosis attributes these episodes to a repressed desire to have a child as she approaches her 40th birthday. This situation disturbs Béatrice to the point where she becomes fixated on one idea: having a baby for her 40th birthday!

Captain Hannibal Pennac is retired and dreams of reconciling with his daughter Annabelle, also a police captain, who has just been transferred to Montpellier. But Anabelle is angry with her father and does not want to talk to him, because he left her when she was 6 years old. However, a mysterious case will force them to unite and Annabelle will have no choice but to work with her father.

Jeanne Nogarède is a police officer in her home village of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. The biggest regret of her life: the case of Emma Vivian, the daughter of one of her childhood friends, who disappeared on her way to school. Five years later, a new element shakes up her understanding of the case. Jeanne discovers online the video image reconstructed by an AI of the young Emma Vivian who explains what happened to her. However, her story contains an element that only her captor could know... or her mother.