Blood On The Docks

A teenage girl is found dead in front of a block of flats. Suicide, accident, murder? The only witness, a drop-out, has disappeared. The very punctilious Faraday investigates. In parallel, his former partner Winckler, with totally contrasting methods, is investigating the death of 24 year-old Toni. Their paths soon cross...

A policeman is killed on the job as he was preparing to bring down a drug lord. Meanwhile, Faraday's deaf and dumb son is suspected of having not helped a young drug addict-a participant in the documentary he is producing as part of a campaign against drug abuse.

Who put Dimitri Lomet on the tracks of a funicular railway and left him to die? A man of conviction committed to the most vulnerable in society, Dimitri was behind an exhibition on child exploitation. And Alex Guirardon, who also worked on the project, is now missing.

A decapitated corpse with no hands is discovered on a beach. Death occurred several weeks earlier. With no one reported missing, identification is complex. However there is a possible link to dark tales of sex parties between key figures in the city's salubrious neighbourhoods.

A skeleton is found in a trawler that sank several years earlier. The metal hatch concealing the skeleton was locked from the outside, pointing to a crime. Meanwhile, the security manager of a canning factory is murdered in his home.

An anaesthetist is murdered in her bathtub as the apartment of a cosmetic surgeon is sacked and the doctor kidnapped. It then emerges that the two worked together in the past with one of their operations resulting in the death of a patient.