Season 1
8 episodes
48 min. per episode
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Detective Niémans confronts chilling secrets and ancient legends, battling personal demons while unraveling a sinister web of murder.
Episodes
A mutilated corpse is found during a forest hunting party and it seems the victim was the heir to a family fortune. As Niemans and Camille question his immediate circle, his sister is also targeted.
Niemans and Camille are put on the track of a curse that is rumoured to be placed on the sons of the Von Geyersberg family. But are the rich clan really the victims or is there a killer among them?
In a wine-growing region at harvest time, a battered corpse is discovered under rubble when a vault collapses during the renovation of a chapel, destroying a fresco. Was it an accident or foul play?
When Niemans obtains X-ray images of the damaged frescos, they provide further insight into the case, but does a missing fragment from the biblical scenes portrayed hold the key to the killer?
When two men discover the severed hand of a child, Niemans and Camille find the local police distracted by the case of a serial killer armed with a rifle. Can they find clues at a children's home?
Detective Pierre Niémans and his partner Camille Delauney investigate a series of brutal crimes in remote French regions, unveiling dark regional myths and forgotten customs beyond the scope of local authorities.