Cain

Charlotte, a 17-year-old, and Sylvie Véry, her mother are kidnapped by a hooded stranger. It appears to Cain that Mathias Véry, husband and father of the two missing women, could be the kidnapper. This gynecologist, riddled with debts might have wanted to force his father in law, to pay a sum that would erase all his problems.

Lea Legendre, a 17-year-old high school student has been found beaten to death in a particularly gruesome way. The investigation immediately leads Cain to suspect Etienne Courcelles, a controversial teacher, who turns out to be a master of manipulator who rules and governs the lives of all those who approach him.

While waiting for someone in the street, Lucie is shot in the back of her head. Cain witnesses the scene. Who is the shooter? Is it someone she knows? Who might want her dead? While Cain is asking himself all these questions, Lucie is hospitalized in a critical condition...

Joelle Lester, the director of the clinic where Lucie was operated on, is found dead. Her sister, Charline Lester, is convinced that she was the original target. Indeed, she had been receiving threats for a long time. Is the killer really mistaken, or is it a dark family affair, following the time when the clinic could have been sold?

A female student who was prostituting is found dead. Cain wants to find the culprit but also to uncover the whole network. He comes across an elderly couple who seem to be peaceful, a big lawyer and a Marseille godfather who considers himself untouchable. The case quickly takes on an unexpected dimension...

their quest. But Lucie is risking her life; at any moment, her identity could be discovered. A gripping race against time is set up to catch Virandelles in the act, to save young Asia from the clutches of her pimps, and to bend the law to the point of paradox in order to ensnare the lawyer Maître Forestier. But who among them killed the young student prostitute and why?

Cain and Lucie investigate the murder of Mathieu Dorléac, a psycho-criminology student. He fell from the roof of his university campus after being tasered. This plunge into the world of university allows Cain to find Anna Becker, his former psycho-criminology teacher and notorious ex-profiler, whose classes galvanize the students. Two of them, Chloé and Thomas, intrigue the investigators.

During a performance of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Marseilles Opera House, the principal dancer Cyril Dubois suddenly dies on stage. Who poisoned Romeo? Grégori, who will now replace him as head of the ballet? Noémie, who is afraid he might leave her for a younger ballerina?

A motorbike accident on a winding road takes the life of a certain Lecalm, a company director. The case would be banal if it were not for the fact that this is the very road on which Cain had the accident that left him paralysed. It is shown that the motorbike's brakes have been tampered with...

Cain succeeds in arresting Balducci, the psychopath who is determined to take the life of Sonia, the woman he loves and who is expecting his child. At his home, macabre discoveries lead to his being linked to numerous crimes committed in Corsica. Cain and Lucie must now ferry the killer to the Island de Beauté. Sonia and her mentor Grandet are on board.