The Art of Crime

Nov 17, 2017

The theft of an obscure Renaissance portrait uncovers a sensational 15th-century secret.

Nov 17, 2017

Florence finds herself accused of art fraud as Captain Verlay searches for answers.

Nov 24, 2017

An art student is killed during a party inspired by 18th-century paintings.

Nov 24, 2017

Florence and Verlay uncover a secret that may shed light on their victim's death.

Dec 1, 2017

A Louvre curator dies from poisoning in front of a Géricault painting depicting death and agony.

Dec 1, 2017

Florence and Verlay use Géricault's "Portraits of the Insane" to track down the killer.

Nov 23, 2018

The owner of a copy of a work by Claude Monet is murdered and the picture stolen. But why go as far as killing someone just to take a simple copy? The investigation leads Antoine and Florence on the trail of a particularly talented copyist.

Nov 23, 2018

Antoine and Florence are on the trail of a particularly talented copyist of Claude Monet's work. They come to realise that the life of the one strangely mirrors that of the other. Worrying parallels lead them towards a sombre story of passion and jealousy.

Nov 30, 2018

Captain Verlay receives a set of Gustave Courbet's paintings postcards as a kind of treasure hunt. A corpse is discovered with each riddle solved.

Nov 30, 2018

The murderer inspired by Gustave Courbet seems determined to follow his Machiavellian plan right to the end. One question remains: why does he appear to address himself directly to Antoine?

Dec 7, 2018

A seminarian is stabbed to death. A tattoo on the victim's chest intrigues Antoine and Florence, leading them on the trail of a lost work by Hieronymus Bosch, a famous painter from the Flemish Renaissance with a fascination for demons and devils.

Dec 7, 2018

Antoine and Florence follow the trail of the picture by Hieronymus Bosch. As one discovery leads to another they realise that the murder of the seminarian wasn't the first crime committed in the name of this particular work.

Oct 25, 2019

Ballet students think the ghost of Degas' "Little Dancer" is responsible for murder. Captain Verlay investigates ballet students from years past.

Nov 1, 2019

A young woman holding an ancient Egyptian box drops dead in the Louvre. An Egyptian curse casts a shadow over the investigation.

May 7, 2021

A historian is found dead on the set of a TV show about Van Gogh. Florence uncovers a lead that may shed light on Van Gogh's last days.

May 14, 2021

A Moulin Rouge dancer comes under suspicion for a murder. The investigation takes a turn when Florence and Verlay discover a new clue.

Nov 22, 2021

Florence's father finds his old friend dead and calls her. Florence and Captain Verlay investigate the murder and try to find the connection with Camille Claudel.

Nov 29, 2021

At the Louvre Museum, a Eugène Delacroix enthusiast is killed after having admired one of the artist's works. Simon is the sole witness, a teenager with a quite extraordinary memory. Without having seen the murderer's face, his hypermnesia might still enable an identification. The youngster's life is now in danger.

Dec 12, 2022

A young woman's body is found in a photo studio, seemingly killed while recreating Manet's work. Detectives Verlay and Chassagne investigate, uncovering a stolen Manet masterpiece from Boston.

Dec 19, 2022

In the Paris catacombs, a young actress playing a vampire is discovered slain in a coffin, staked through her heart. Detectives Verlay and Chassagne investigate her theatre troupe, but personal entanglements arise, complicating the case.

Dec 4, 2023

Suspecting historians seeking Marie-Antoinette's necklace, Antoine and Florence enlist his ex-fiancée Juliette, a medium cop, to infiltrate the group. Her attempt to reunite them fails as they insist on staying friends.

Feb 19, 2024

An art restorer is found dead in her workshop next to a Botticelli masterpiece. Florence and Antoine embark on a perilous quest leading to the Jacquemart-André museum, troubled by the Renaissance master's themes of courtly love.

Feb 3, 2025

A murder mimicking a Raphael painting occurs near Château de Chantilly. The victim worked for author Patricia Richter, and the crime scene matches her upcoming novel. Antoine and Florence investigate the killer's connection to her.

Feb 10, 2025

A VR game designer is murdered. Detectives Antoine and Florence investigate by playing her Ingres-themed game while dealing with a novelist studying their work and their complex relationship.

Feb 23, 2026

In her Paris studio, an art teacher and great admirer of Paul Cézanne is murdered just as her husband, a painter, calls her from Aix-en-Provence, believing he has finally found the right vantage point to paint Mont Sainte-Victoire, following in the footsteps of his master. Captain Antoine Verlay and historian Florence Chassagne quickly make the connection between this unusual murder and the work of the famous Provençal artist. Realising during the investigation that one of the keys to the mystery lies in Aix-en-Provence, the duo decide to go there to investigate...

Mar 2, 2026

At the Grévin Museum in Paris, a historian specialising in the painter Jacques-Louis David is found murdered in the bathtub of the revolutionary Marat, a scene that replicates the master's famous painting. To unmask the murderer, Antoine Verlay and Florence Chassagne must infiltrate a symposium of art historians by posing as a couple. A cover that could well create new tensions between them. Or, on the contrary, bring them closer together...