In Guernon, a small town in the French Alps, a university librarian is killed. He was killed not just, but with special cruelty. Who would have thought to deal with this man? The local police are unable to establish the truth, and police commissioner Nieman arrives to help her from the capital. At the same time, in Sarzak, another provincial town in France, two strange events take place on the same day: a robbery of a school archive is committed and a graveyard crypt is broken into, where the body of ten-year-old Jude Itero rests. The connection between these crimes is elusive, but the closer the detectives are to the solution, the more terrible and bloody the victims left behind by the mysterious criminals, the more clearly the relationship between the drama at the Mining University and the dark incidents in Sarzak can be traced.
Based on the novel, in 2000, the famous film was staged, in which Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel brilliantly played the main roles.
Jean-Cristophe Grangé
LES RIVIERES POURPRES
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