Los misterios de Laura () is a prime-time Spanish police procedural comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española from 2009 to 2014 and a movie broadcast in 2022. It stars María Pujalte as Laura Lebrel, a police detective with a disorganized personal and professional life, and a casual and pleasant personality, but with a great nose and intuition for solving intriguing cases. The series mixes elements of TV series like Murder, She Wrote or Columbo, and at the same time it recovers elements of the mystery novels by Agatha Christie. The series, that was initially going to be named Madres y detectives (), premiered on July 27, 2009 with huge success, surpassing the rival of the night CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. It has been adapted in Italy as starring Carlotta Natoli, the Netherlands as starring and Russia as Mama-detektiv starring Inga Strelkova-Oboldina. On May 8, 2014 American network NBC announced an American adaptation, titled The Mysteries of Laura and starring Debra Messing. Cast and characters Laura Lebrel del Bosque (María Pujalte) is the main character. Her personal and professional life is disorganized, but she manages to combine her role as the mother of twins and as police detective perfectly, always using intuition as a means of connection between her lives. What is surprising is that she does not give importance to material or physical evidence, however, she does give importance to a faded shade, coffee stains on the table, the degrees marking the air conditioning thermostat... she always ends up solving the case at the end of the show with a Sherlock Holmes style, surprising the rest of the characters and the audience. Jacobo Salgado Sexto (Fernando Guillén Cuervo) is the Chief Inspector of the police station where Laura works since the departure of Gerardo, he's also Laura's ex-husband. He is honest and straightforward. He doesn't participate in the investigations of Laura and Martin, he does his work from his office. The relationship with Laura and Martin is not entirely cordial, and "office life" is not at all easy. Martín Maresca Delfino () is a police detective and Laura's partner and sidekick at work. Restless and impulsive, he is the opposite of Laura. After several years working together, they have come to be blended to perfection. Something he shares with Laura is that he doesn't give importance to material or physical evidence. The twins of