Murders in... explained

Murders in... is a French television series, distributed on France 3 since 2013. Each episode centers around a mystery in a different city or region, often at a famous landmark. While some investigator pairings are repeated, usually each episode has an entirely new cast. The series is one of France 3's largest programs, followed by an average of 4 million viewers.

Season 1 (2013–2014)

Episode 1: Murders in Saint-Malo

• Aired: April 23, 2013
• Cast: Louise Monot as Lieutenant Gwenaëlle Garrec and Bruno Solo as Chief Warrant Officer Eric Vautier
• Director: Lionel Bailliu
• Ratings: 4.7 million viewers / (17.8% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[1]

Episode 2: Murders in the Basque Country

• Aired: April 5, 2014
• Cast: Antoine Duléry as Vincent Becker and Claire Borotra as Marie Daguerre
• Director: Eric Duret
• Ratings: 4.1 million viewers / (17.6% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[2]

Episode 3: Murders in Pyla

• Alternate Title: "The Disappearance of Pyla"
• Aired: April 12, 2014
• Cast: Dounia Coesens as Élise Castel and Véronique Genest as Carole Castel
• Director: Didier Albert
• Ratings: 4.1 million viewers / (18.4% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[3]

Episode 4: Murders in Rocamadour

• Aired: May 3, 2014
• Cast: Clémentine Célarié as Sophie Lacaze and Grégori Derangère as Alexandre Delcroix
• Director: Lionel Bailliu (2)
• Ratings: 4 million viewers / (16.8% of viewers) / Rank: 3^[4]

Episode 5: Murders in Rouen

• Aired: May 24, 2014
• Cast: Frédéric Diefenthal as Didier Mege, Isabel Otero as Eva Chene, Philippe Duquesne as Ludovic and Damien Bonnard as Gabriel
• Director: Christian Bonnet
• Ratings: 3.7 million viewers / (16.9% of viewers) / Rank: 3^[5]

Season 2 (2015)

Episode 6: Murders in Guérande

• Aired: February 21, 2015
• Cast: Antoine Duléry as Vincent Becker and Claire Borotra as Marie Daguerre
• Director: Eric Duret (2)
• Ratings: 4 million viewers / (17% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[6]

Episode 7: Murders on the Ile d'Yeu

• Aired: March 7, 2015
• Cast: Anne Richard as Isabelle Bonnefoy and Bernard Yerlès as Nicolas Lemeur
• Director: François Guérin
• Ratings: 3.9 million viewers / (16.9% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[7]

Episode 8: Murders in Étretat (also known as The Cliffs Murder)^[8]

• Aired: April 4, 2015
• Cast: Adriana Karembeu as Karine Zenco and Bruno Madinier as Victor Ortega
• Director: Laurence Katrian
• Ratings: 4.1 million viewers / (17.9% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[9]

Episode 9: Murders in Carcassonne

• Aired: May 9, 2015
• Cast: Rebecca Hampton as Angélique Demange, Bruno Wolkowitch as Raphaël Leprince, Philippe Nahon as Father Ancel and Bernard Blancan as William Malory
• Director: Julien Despaux
• Ratings: 4.2 million viewers / (18.6% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[10]

Episode 10: Murders at Mont Ventoux

• Aired: May 23, 2015
• Cast: Ingrid Chauvin as Alex Mejean and Thomas Jouannet as Marc Messac
• Director: Thierry Peythieu
• Ratings: 4.3 million viewers / (19.9% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[11]

Season 3 (2015–16)

Episode 11: Murders in Collioure

• Aired: October 3, 2015
• Cast: Helena Noguerra as Alice Castel and Stéphane Freiss as Pascal Loube
• Director: Bruno Garcia
• Ratings: 4.3 million viewers / (19.3% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[12]

Episode 12: Murders in La Rochelle

• Aired: November 14, 2015
• Cast: Dounia Coesens as Justine Balmont and Philippe Caroit as Raphaël Weiss
• Director: Étienne Dhaene
• Ratings: 4.2 million viewers / (18.4% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[13]

Episode 13: Murders in Burgundy

• Aired: December 26, 2015
• Cast: Cristiana Reali as Mylène Deville and Franck Sémonin as Frédéric Tessier
• Director: Jérôme Navarro
• Ratings: 3.8 million viewers / (17.1% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[14]

Episode 14: Murders in Avignon

• Aired: February 27, 2016
• Cast: Catherine Jacob as Laurence Ravel, Lætitia Milot as Julie Ravel and Pascal Elso as Dimitri Bellac
• Director: Stéphane Kappes
• Ratings: 4.3 million viewers / (18.3% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[15]

Episode 15: Murders on the Ile de Ré

• Aired: April 23, 2016
• Cast: Lucie Lucas as Margaux Pelletier and Bruno Salomone as Vincent Pelletier
• Director: François Basset and Jules Maillard
• Ratings: 4.5 million viewers / (20% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[16]

Episode 16: Murders at Lac Léman

• Aired: May 21, 2016
• Cast: Corinne Touzet as Sandrine Zermatten and Jean-Yves Berteloot as Louis Jolly
• Director: Jean-Marc Rudnicki
• Ratings: 4.3 million viewers / (20% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[17]

Season 4 (2016–2017)

Episode 17: Murders in La Ciotat

• Aired: September 24, 2016
• Cast: Philippe Bas as Batti Vergniot and Élodie Varlet as Anne Sauvaire
• Director: Dominique Ladoge
• Ratings: 3.5 million viewers / (17.4% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[18]

Episode 18: Murders in Dunkirk

• Aired: February 4, 2017
• Cast: Charlotte de Turckheim as Janie Roussel and Lannick Gautry as Eric Dampierre
• Director: Marwen Abdallah
• Ratings: 4.8 million viewers / (21.8% of viewers) / Rank: 1^[19]

Episode 19: Murders in Martinique

• Aired: February 25, 2017
• Cast: Olivier Marchal as Paul Ventura and Sara Martins as Léna Valrose
• Director: Philippe Niang
• Ratings: 4.2 million viewers / (17.8% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[20]

Episode 20: Murders in Grasse

• Aired: April 15, 2017
• Cast: Lorie as Sophie Mournel and Annie Grégorio as Marianne Dusseyre
• Director: Karim Ouaret
• Ratings: 3.7 million viewers / (17.8% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[21]

Episode 21: Murders in Aix-en-Provence

• Aired: May 13, 2017
• Cast: Astrid Veillon as Anne Giudicelli, Isabelle Vitari as Pauline Dorval and Andréa Ferréol as Eléonore Dorval
• Director: Claude-Michel Rome
• Ratings: 4.1 million viewers / (18.2% of viewers) / Rank: 3^[22]

Episode 22: Murders in Strasbourg

• Aired: May 27, 2017
• Cast: Olivier Sitruk as Maxime Keller, Hélène de Fougerolles as Katel Leguennec and Jean-Baptiste Maunier as Julian Mathis
• Director: Laurence Katrian (2)
• Ratings: 3.7 million viewers / (19.1% of viewers) / Rank: 2^[23]

Season 5 (2017–2018)

Episode 23: Murders in The Landes

• Alternate Title: "Murder in Hossegor"
• Aired: September 7, 2017
• Cast: Xavier Deluc as Walter Beaumont, Barbara Cabrita as Isabelle Hirigoyen and Catherine Hosmalin as Suzanne Beaumont
• Director: Jean-Marc Thérin
• Ratings:

Episode 24: Murders in Auvergne

• Aired: September 30, 2017
• Cast: Frédéric Diefenthal as Bruno Romagnat and Sofia Essaïdi as Aurélie Lefaivre
• Director: Thierry Binisti
• Ratings:

Episode 25: Murders in Sarlat

• Aired: November 18, 2017
• Cast: Thierry Godard as Éric Pavin and Cécile Bois as Claire Dalmas
• Director: Delphine Lemoine
• Ratings:

Episode 26: Murders in Orléans

• Aired: January 20, 2018
• Cast: Michèle Bernier as Charlotte Marat and David Kammenos as Philippe Cransac
• Director: Jean-Marc Seban
• Ratings:

Episode 27: Murders in Oléron

• Aired: March 17, 2018
• Cast: Hélène Seuzaret as Captain Judith Valeix and Michel Cymes as Doctor Vincent Lazare
• Director: Thierry Binisti
• Ratings:

Season 6 (2018–2019)

Episode 28: Murders in Cornouaille

• Aired: September 8, 2018
• Cast: Caroline Anglade as Marion Legay and Sagamore Stévenin as Tristan Legay
• Director: Frank Mancuso
• Ratings:

Episode 29: Murders in Haute-Savoie

• Aired: October 13, 2018
• Cast: Gwendoline Hamon as Claire Garibaldi and Thibault de Montalembert as Pierre Garibaldi
• Director: Rene Manzor
• Ratings:

Episode 30: Murders in Brides-les-Bains

• Aired: December 29, 2018
• Cast: Line Renaud as Claire Garibaldi and Patrick Catalifo as Julien Forest
• Director: Emmanuel Rigaut
• Ratings:

Episode 31: Murders in Morvan

• Aired: January 19, 2019
• Cast: Virginie Hocq as Maud Perrin and Bruno Wolkowitch as Julien Demarcy
• Director: Simon Astier
• Ratings:

Episode 32: Murders in Lorraine

• Aired: March 16, 2019
• Cast: Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux as Lola Paoli and Stéphane Bern as Nicolas Muller
• Director: Rene Manzor
• Ratings:

Season 7 (2019–2020)

Episode 33: Murders in Colmar

• Aired: September 14, 2019
• Cast: Garance Thénault as Anaïs Lacombe and Pierre Arditi as Étienne Ronsard
• Director: Klaus Biedermann
• Ratings:

Episode 34: Murders in Lille

• Aired: September 28, 2019
• Cast: Annelise Hesme as Caroline Flament and Wolf-Denis Elion as William Henry
• Director: Laurence Katrian
• Ratings:

Episode 35: Murders in Belle Île

• Aired: October 26, 2019
• Cast: Charlotte de Turckheim as Commander Marie Lamblin and Nicolas Gob as Captain Thomas Keller
• Director: Marwen Abdallah
• Ratings:

Episode 36: Murders in Tahiti

• Aired: December 28, 2019
• Cast: Leslie Medina as Lieutenant Mareva Haumana, Jean-Michel Tinivelli as Commander Philippe Toussaint, and Vaimalama Chaves as the Beach House singer
• Director:
• Ratings:

Episode 37: Murders in Cotentin

• Aired: February 1, 2020
• Cast: Chloé Lambert as Hélène Ribero and Léa François as Alice Hamel
• Director: Jérémy Minui
• Ratings:

Episode 38: Murders in Jura

• Aired: February 15, 2020
• Cast: Sandrine Quétier as Anna Buisson and Pierre-Yves Bon as Eymeric Massoni-Tournault
• Director: Eric Duret
• Ratings:

Episode 39: Murders in Corrèze

• Aired: May 2, 2020
• Cast: Carole Bianic as Captain Léna Ribéro and Arié Elmaleh as Commander Axel Zeller
• Director: Adeline Darraux
• Ratings:

Notes and References

1. Web site: Audiences télé: France 3 en grande forme avec "Meurtres à Saint-Malo". A.G.. 20minutes.fr. 6 March 2016.
2. Web site: Très belle audience pour la fiction "Meurtres au pays basque" samedi soir sur France 3. Jean-Marc VERDREL. Les coulisses de la Télévision. 6 March 2016.
3. Web site: Très belle audience pour "La disparue du Pyla" avec Véronique Genest samedi sur France 3. Jean-Marc VERDREL. Les coulisses de la Télévision. 6 March 2016.
4. Web site: Audiences TV: "The Voice" perd encore de son éclat, France 2 sourit grâce au foot et aux Bretons. Benjamin Chapon. 20minutes.fr. 6 March 2016.
5. Web site: Très belle audience pour "Meurtres à l’abbaye de Rouen" samedi sur France 3. Jean-Marc VERDREL. Les coulisses de la Télévision. 6 March 2016.
6. Web site: Succès d'audience pour Meurtres à Guérande le 14 février sur France 3. - LeBlogTvNews. LeBlogTvNews. 6 March 2016.
7. Web site: Meurtres à l’île d’Yeu: succès d’audience pour Anne Richard et France 3. Toutelatele. 6 March 2016.
8. Web site: The Cliffs Murder. Newen Distribution. 7 September 2018.
9. Web site: Meurtres à Etretat: un très beau succès pour Adriana Karembeu et Bruno Madinier. Toutelatele. 6 March 2016.
10. Web site: Meurtres à Carcassonne: un record en part d’audience pour Rebecca Hampton et Bruno Wolkowitch. Toutelatele. 6 March 2016.
11. Web site: Meurtres au mont Ventoux: succès d’audience pour Ingrid Chauvin et Thomas Jouannet. Toutelatele. 6 March 2016.
12. Web site: "Meurtre à Collioure" fait cartonner France 3 (VIDEOS). Lindependant.fr. 6 March 2016.
13. Web site: Meurtres à La Rochelle: Dounia Coesens et Philippe Caroit en tête des audiences dès 21h50. Toutelatele. 6 March 2016.
14. Web site: Loisirs - Audiences: bon score pour Meurtres en Bourgogne samedi soir. 6 March 2016.
15. Web site: Audiences: The Voice indétrônable, carton pour Meurtres à Avignon. Anne-Laure Deparis. Télé-Loisirs. 6 March 2016.
16. Web site: Audiences: The Voice chute, carton pour Meurtres à l'île de Ré, déception pour la finale de la Coupe de la Ligue. Anne-Laure Deparis. Télé-Loisirs. 24 April 2016.
17. Web site: Audiences: Audiences: France 2 en tête grâce au PSG, déception pour TF1. Allyson Jouin-Claude . lefigaro.fr. 22 May 2016.
18. Web site: Audiences: "The Voice Kids" leader devant "Meurtres à la Ciotat", "DC: Legends of Tomorrow" en baisse. Kevin Boucher. Ozap.com. 25 September 2016.
19. Web site: Audiences TV: Meurtres à Dunkerque (France 3) cartonne, Le grand show de l'humour (France 2) bat Danse avec les stars. Sarah Alcalay. programme-television.org. 5 February 2017.
20. Web site: Audience: "Meurtres en Martinique" suivi par 4,2 millions de téléspectateurs sur France 3. Jean-Marc VERDREL. Coulisses-tv.fr. 26 February 2017.
21. Web site: Audiences: "The Voice" solide leader, "Meurtres à Grasse" résiste bien sur France 3, "Les années bonheur" faible. Pierre Dezeraud. Ozap.com. 16 April 2017.
22. Web site: Audiences: L'Eurovision leader devant "The Voice", France 3 en embuscade avec "Meurtres à...". Benjamin Meffre. Ozap.com. 14 May 2017.
23. Web site: Audiences: "The Voice" leader en baisse, "Meurtres à Strasbourg" devant Angers-PSG. Pierre Dezeraud. Ozap.com. 28 May 2017.