The Night of the 12th
The Night of the 12th
Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara's murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara's complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim's life soon turns into a haunting obsession.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
Compelling police procedural investigating the violent murder of Clara while she was walking home late one evening. There’s no shortage of potential suspects, as Clara had an active social life which included keeping company with various disreputable men—a fact that unfairly clouds the investigators focus on the victim. It’s a searing drama that explores the consequences of being a woman in a male dominated world. If you like your police procedurals with sufficient catharsis in the end, you may want to look elsewhere, because you won’t find it here—but that’s sort of the point.