Claire Beaumont

In L'Heure zéro, the French adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero for the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Claire Beaumont is an announcer for the TV Nord channel and wife of TV celebrity chef Maxime Beaumont. She is the parallel of Kay Strange from the original novel. Claire is portrayed by Alizée Costes.

Like Kay in the original, there is also some tension in her and Maxime's former wife Audrey Fontaine, who also works at the same TV station. However this tension is not as pronounced as in the original because Claire is also actively involved in an affair with Ted Gautier (the Ted Latimer parallel.) Claire is not seriously considered a suspect in the death of station boss Jean Devandière partly because she had no motive. A plausible motive only emerges later, when Laurence suggests that with Devandière dead, Gautier stood to take over the top job at the station and he could then give the news anchor job to Claire. In the event, Claire does get to be news anchor, but not for long. In a plot twist unique to this adaptation, Maxime had to kill Claire because the clues he planted in Devandière's murder did not point to Audrey successfully enough.