Euphrasie Maillol

Dr Euphrasie Maillol is a recurring non-canonical character who appears in Season 2 of French TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. She is a forensic pathologist at the Commissariat of Police in Lille. There is no parallel of her character in the original works of Agatha Christie.

Euphrasie Maillol first appears in the episode Murder Party. Commissaire Swan Laurence meets her and immediately falls for her. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start because Euphrasie holds strong feminist views and thinks of Laurence as a male chauvinist. The relationship improves later with some helpful intervention by Alice Avril and when Euphrasie and Laurence appreciate each other for their professional skills. This is despite the occasional efforts by Marlène Leroy to come in between them as she is herself in love with Laurence. However at the end of the episode, Laurence learns that Euphrasie had to rush back to the U.S.--apparently something to do with her American husband.

In the next episode, L'étrange enlèvement du petit Bruno, she is back. She tells Laurence that she has divorced her American husband and their relationship develops, although Marlene seems to always turn up at the wrong moments with news or reports. Her wide knowledge of strange and unusual topics helps solve one of the key mysteries in the crime.

In Le cheval pâle, the relationship between her and Laurence continues to develop but she tells him she has been offered a new job in Washington D.C. and would be leaving soon.

By the episode Le miroir se brisa, Laurence is ready to propose to her but then she dies in an aircrash which throws Laurence into a deep depression.

Euphrasie's final appearance is in Mélodie mortelle, comprising of flashback footage from previous episodes and other scenes where she appears and converses with Laurence in his fantasies.

Euphrasie Maillol is portrayed by Natacha Lindinger.