Murders in... explained

Runtime:	90 minutes
Country:	France
Network:	France 3 (France) RTS Deux (Switzerland) La Une (Belgium)
Last Aired:	present
Num Seasons:	7
Num Episodes:	39

Murders in... is a French television series. It has been distributed since 2013 on France 3 (France). 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 a huge success and one of France 3's biggest programs, followed by an average of 4 million viewers.

Season 1 (2013-14)

Episode 1 : Murders in Saint-Malo

• Aired : April 23, 2013
• Cast : Louise Monot as Lieutenant Gwenaëlle Garrec & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & Bruno Salomone as Vincent Pelletier
• Director : François Basset & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & Sofia Essaïdi as Aurélie Lefaivre
• Director : Thierry Binisti
• Ratings :

Episode 25 : Murders in Sarlat

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

Episode 26 : Murders in Orléans

• Aired : January 20, 2018
• Cast : Michèle Bernier as Charlotte Marat & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & Patrick Catalifo as Julien Forest
• Director : Emmanuel Rigaut
• Ratings :

Episode 31 : Murders in Morvan

• Aired : January 19, 2019
• Cast : Virginie Hocq as Maud Perrin & 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 & 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 & Pierre Arditi as Étienne Ronsard
• Director : Klaus Biedermann
• Ratings :

Episode 34 : Murders in Lille

• Aired : September 28, 2019
• Cast : Annelise Hesme as Caroline Flament & 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 & 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 & Léa François as Alice Hamel
• Director : Jérémy Minui
• Ratings :

Episode 38 : Murders in Jura

• Aired : February 15, 2020
• Cast : Sandrine Quétier as Anna Buisson & 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 & 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.