Les Bois maudits (2021)
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Blandine Bellavoir, Samir Boitard, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Camille Moutawakil, Francois Praud, Romane Libert
When a body is found staged in a forest, Lieutenant Justine Verard must investigate with a colleague she blames for her husband’s death.
The story
Lieutenant Justine Verard is called to a crime scene in the forest of the Chartreuse Mountains, where loggers have found a body suspended among the trees with pulleys and ropes. A Latin riddle carved into the wood adds a puzzle to the investigation. She must work with Captain Mehdi Djaoud of Grenoble’s research unit, whom she blames for her husband’s death years earlier. Meanwhile, Justine is anxious about her daughter Léa, who has cancer and is waiting for a bone marrow transplant.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Lieutenant Justine Verard is called to a crime scene in the forest of the Chartreuse Mountains, where loggers have discovered a body hanging from the trees like a puppet, using pulleys and ropes. At the scene, she finds a riddle in Latin carved into the wood. She must investigate alongside Captain Mehdi Djaoud of the Grenoble research unit, whom she holds responsible for her husband’s death a few years earlier. But Justine Verard is also worried about her daughter Léa’s health: she has cancer and is waiting for a bone marrow transplant. Soon, a second victim is found hanging like a puppet from a ski lift, with a second riddle carved into the wood at their feet: “Segundo de Trinitate.” It becomes clear to the two investigators that a third murder is in the making…
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