Beatrice Santini

In Mademoiselle Mac Ginty est morte, the France Televisions adaptation of Mrs McGinty's Dead, Beatice Santini is the daughter of Leopold Santini and his wife Deborah, who are the parallels of the Rendells in the original novel. There is no parallel to Beatrice as the Rendells did not have children. Beatrice lived with her parents in a first floor unit at 27 Victor Hugo Boulevard, a block of apartments in Lille where most of the action in the episode takes place. Beatrice Santini is portrayed by Melissandre Fortumeau.

In the course of the investigations into the murder of Huguette Mac Ginty, commissaire Laurence considered Beatrice's mother Deborah to be a good match for a murderess Eva Mauduis who had disappeared more than 20 years previously. Beatrice's age seemed to match the profile because Alice Avril had discovered that at the time of her disappearance, Eva Mauduis had given birth to a daughter.

When Laurence encountered Beatrice, she spoke to him in a puzzling manner. She said that she was afraid of her father. Later she added that Leopold was not really her father and that he wanted to kill her. She accused Laurence of becoming his accomplice. Towards the end of the episode, Leopold Santinu admitted that Beatrice was a paranoid schizophrenic. "The shoemaker's children always go barefoot," he tells Laurence. He had been trying to treat Beatrice for years but had not been successful. He admitted that he had not been a good father to Beatrice but never expected that she would go so far to get his attention.