The Mists Of Memory - 2017 - 6/10
AKA - Les Brumes du Souvenir
The honorary mayor of an obliterated village in Verdun is murdered on the eve of Armistice Day.
Thousands of Great War bodes are still unearthed, targets for looters who sell relics online.
Searching, another, more recent skeleton is dug up.
Local police expect a prosecutor to arrive, not a rival detective since locals may be “too close”.
This breaks with most French mysteries, which invariably pair a detective with a legal official,
Also, the local gendarme continually marginalizes and undercuts the detective.
Watchable French mystery shuffles along by fits and starts.