Anna Buisson, 44, captain of the gendarmerie in Moirans in the Jura district, is sent to investigate the death of Rose Tournaut, a healer found dead at her home. The body is covered in white petals, which are said to be the sign of the White Lady, a legendary ghost rumored to haunt the shores of Lake Vouglans since a dam was constructed there, submerging the local village.
Murder in Jura's Mountains
Anna Buisson, 44, captain of the gendarmerie in Moirans in the Jura district, is sent to investigate the death of Rose Tournaut, a healer found dead at her home. The body is covered in white petals, which are said to be the sign of the White Lady, a legendary ghost rumored to haunt the shores of Lake Vouglans since a dam was constructed there, submerging the local village. Eymeric Massoni-Tournaut, 32, a star of the Investigatory Section of the Lyon Gendarmerie, and above all, grandson of the victim, turns up to assist with the inquiry. Anna could not have imagined a worse partner! The Tournauts ruined her family when the dam was built and drove her father to kill himself! Eymeric has put the past behind him, but also inherited the family gift for healing. So rational thinking against an overdeveloped sense of intuition; a rekindling of hatred between two families: the partners’ joint investigation promises to be stormy. Yet opposites sometimes attract. So much the better, since the pair will have to learn to work together, especially when there is a second murder. The inquiry plunges the two police officers into a world of past memories, family secrets, and sunken treasure at the bottom of the lake…