The black blood

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The black blood (French original title: La Ligne noire ) is a novel by Jean-Christophe Grangé . It was published in France in 2004 and in Germany in 2006.

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In this thriller , Parisian journalist Mark Dupeyrat contacts freediver Jaques Reverdi, who is imprisoned in Malaysia for murder . In order to elicit his secrets from the murderer, he invents the pen pal "Elisabeth" and in one of his letters he even encloses a photo of a casual acquaintance, the photo model Khadijah, with the murderer. Mark D. travels to Southeast Asia as part of the further action and finds out through Reverdi's clues that he is a sadistic serial killer who torments his female victims in a sealed room by suffocating them and bleeding them to death at the same time. Reverdi escapes from prison and finds Mark and the now famous model in Paris . There is a bloody showdown, but the novel doesn't end there, because Mark D. is also exposed as a serial killer by the likewise traumatized model .

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  • Jean-Christophe Grangé, The Black Blood. Roman ("La ligne noire"). New edition Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8289-8692-3 (translated by Barbara Schaden).
  • Jean-Christophe Grangé: La ligne noire . Michel, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-226-15109-5 .
  • Jean-Christophe Grangé: The black blood. Audio book . Abridged reading. Audio Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86804-466-9 (6 CDs, read by Joachim Kerzel ).