Rituels meurtriers (2011)

A police captain, Captain Bénita, and Valère, a young police commissioner weakened by the tragic disappearance of her younger sister, are faced with three murders, including that of a well-known trade unionist known as “the Périgourdin.” The crimes’ modus operandi remains mysterious. After conducting several searches, and confronted with a method that initially leaves him and the young commissioner perplexed, he recognizes similarities to Masonic rituals. They therefore investigate the various branches of Freemasonry, where secrecy is revered. A difficult investigation begins, leading them to discover that people are trying to influence it, including Freemasons who have infiltrated the police hierarchy and sit on a Committee of Nine. The investigators’ suspicions soon fall on a neo-Nazi skinhead group, supposedly financed by an American descendant of the anti-Masonic activist Jules Guérin, founder of the Grand Occident de France and a central figure in the so-called Fort Chabrol affair. A search of the group’s premises leads to an exchange of gunfire, but the arrests of its members prove inconclusive, as does that of their alleged backer. The investigation continues, focusing on a ministerial adviser who founded a corrupt Masonic fraternity in the 1970s and was expelled from his order for it...