Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing "one bullet too many", Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that she will head up a new police squad, working on solving old cold cases. Though relieved to have a job still, Capestan is not overjoyed by the prospect of her new role. Even less so when she meets her new team: a crowd of misfits, troublemakers and problem cases, none of whom are fit for purpose and yet none of whom can be fired. But from this inauspicious start, investigating the cold cases throws up several strange mysteries for Capestan and her team: was the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery? Who was behind the dead sailor discovered in the Seine with three gunshot wounds? And why does there seem to be a curious link with a ferry that was shipwrecked off the Florida coast many years previously?

Officer Anne Capestan and her squad of misfits must turn their attention to a more personal case—the murder of Capestan's ex-husband's father, a lifelong member of the Paris police force who had no shortage of enemies. After their successful solving of three cold cases and exposing corruption at the very highest levels of the Paris police force, Officer Anne Capestan's team of oddballs and no-hopers should be in a celebratory mood. However, now despised by their colleagues at 36, quai des Orfevres and worried for their future, morale has never been lower among the members of the Awkward Squad. Capestan is doing her best to motivate the team, but even she cannot maintain a cheerful facade when she has been assigned to investigate the murder of Officer Serge Rufus, the father of her ex-husband. Worse, it soon appears that his murder is linked to two other victims, both of whom were warned by the killer before they struck. Can Capestan marshal the forces to solve another hopeless mystery, or will her team's previous success be proven just a fluke?

Silence, on tue ! C'est sur un plateau de cinéma que la plus sympathique bande de loosers du 36 Quai des Orfèvres fait son come-back, avec toujours à sa tête la célèbre commissaire Anne Capestan, obligée d'interrompre son congé parental pour sauver une ex-collègue. La Capitaine Eva Rosière, qui se consacre désormais à sa carrière de scénariste, est accusée du meurtre d'un réalisateur, retrouvé un couteau entre les deux omoplates, défoncé à la kétamine ! Eva avait, il est vrai, juré de le tuer... Le Cluedo peut commencer. Sa gamine sous le bras, Anne Capestan est prête. Après le succès de Poulets grillés (prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche) et de Rester groupés, Sophie Hénaff poursuit sa série désopilante et savoureuse. On en redemande !

Depuis leur commissariat oublié, Anne Capestan et sa drôle de brigade suivent avec attention le phénomène des « piqûres en soirée » qui se propage sur tout le territoire. Jusqu’à ce que trois femmes s’effondrent, empoisonnées, devant les Galeries Lafayette... Un indice rappelle une affaire des années 1990, celle d’un serial killer qui vient d'être libéré... Bonne nouvelle : le nouveau directeur de la judiciaire leur confie l’affaire. Mauvaise nouvelle : s’ils la résolvent, ils devront renoncer à leur cocon de la rue des Innocents pour rejoindre le Bastion, siège de la PJ parisienne. Sacré dilemme pour les poulets, alors que les victimes continuent de tomber comme des mouches... Découvrez vite la brigade des Poulets Grillés dans cette enquête pleine d'humour et de suspense. " Une enquête drôlement revigorante ." Paris Match