With its pale Provençal stone, faded grey shutters and cafés spilling onto pavements, serving glasses of rosé as temperatures rise, Aix-en-Provence presents a blissful scene.

But, as Investigating Judge Antoine Verlaque and his romantic partner, Criminal Psychology Professor Marine Bonnet, know only too well, beneath even the most picture-postcard city there's a hidden underbelly of dark secrets and disturbing misdeeds.

From local intrigues and professional jealousies to family feuds and murder – when wrongdoings occur in Aix, Antoine is the man they call. Follow this witty, sparky duo as they unpick mysteries that lay bare humanity in all its complexity, under the seemingly benign Provençal sun.