Origins

Genealogist and "heir hunter " Margot Laurent is looking for an heiress, missing since 1962. What does that have to do with a modern murder?

Commissioned as part of an inheritance inventory, Margot makes a macabre discovery hidden in an old family wardrobe, built in 1870 and passed from hand to hand since.

Arthur calls on Margot to uncover what happened to a priest, murdered in the confessional with an old, indecipherable paper crumpled in his hand.

Saved from a suicide attempt, an amnesiac man with burns on his hands and face confesses to murder. His only memory is a musical tune played by an unknown instrument.

A homeless woman is found murdered. The only identifying factor is a signet ring decorated with a noble coat of arms. Margot and Arthur's investigation will take them all the way back to Indochina in the 1950s.

A woman dies clutching an enigmatic piece of jewelry in her fist. An amateur painter, the piece appears in one of her works. Is she pointing investigators towards her killer?

Arthur and Margot trace a mysterious Good Sister all the way to a ring trafficking stolen children in Spain in the 1970s.

A man found dead next to a former U.S. Army base was killed with a Colt 45---the weapon of the GIs. This little reconstituted America was the favorite playground of teenagers playing soldier. Was this child's play gone wrong?

A famous designer is found murdered in a secret room in the family castle--a room that was once a brothel.

A man--convinced he is the victim of a family curse--is found dead, his leg caught in the jaws of a wolf trap. Was he killed by a wolf? Scared to death? A strange atmosphere reigns over the investigation.

A retired midwife and political activist is murdered in her home. Was it a burglary gone wrong? Political revenge? Who killed this woman that everyone seemed to love and admire?

At the edge of the sea, a young man is found strangled with a coin pushed into his mouth. Could the murder of this young man be revenge for a decades-old poker game gone wrong?