The Best Drama Series winner of the 2014 Festival de la Fiction TV de La Rochelle, Détectives is a dramedy mystery series that centers on the goings-on at the Paris-based, family-run Roche and Son detective agency.
Founded by the now-retired Maxime Roche (Jean-Luc Bideau, The Red Violin), the agency has been run by his son Philippe (Philippe Lefebvre, Tell No One). It’s just that, with his thrill-seeking, skirt-chasing, I-don’t-give-un–sou-about-money attitude, Philippe has been running it into the ground, and the company is about to go under.
To save his namesake business from ruin, Maxime sets up a partnership with the firm of Nora Abadie (Sara Martins, Death in Paradise), a former intelligence officer for DGSE, France’s national intelligence agency. Maxime wants the no-nonsense Nora to bring some much-needed professionalism and discipline to Roche and Son, but working with the rascally, albeit charming, Philippe, often proves to be as challenging as the cases.
To wit: On their first case together, Philippe and Nora find themselves on opposing sides, owing to clients that have conflicting interests. The parents of a young worker who fell to his death at a Mickelsen nuclear site don’t believe his fall was an accident, and hire Philippe’s agency to investigate. The thing is, Mickelsen is one of Nora’s clients.
