Film rights in BLOOD ROSE by Margie Orford optioned by Malcolm Kohll and Robert Fig
September 1, 2009
Film rights in BLOOD ROSE by Margie Orford have been optioned to a London-based South African film-making team Malcolm Kohll and Robert Fig, with Kohll adapting the novel and Fig set to executive produce.The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, on the edge of the Namib Desert. As part of a cross-border policing initiative, Dr Clare Hart is sent to profile the possible killer in this corrupt, claustrophobic town, its population as shifting as the desert's dunes.
She works with Captain Tamar Damases, an astute local detective with secrets of her own. Clare throws herself into the work, glad to be distracted from the implosion of what was till a few days ago a blossoming love affair with Captain Riedwaan Faizal, who turned out to be more married than she thought… As the two women trace older crimes that may be related to the recent killings, nothing turns out to be as it seemed at first. And as Riedwaan joins Clare, to help with the investigation and to try to salvage their relationship, she realises that the harbour holds more than just rusting Russian fishing trawlers. A deadly cargo is ready to sail, and it's not just their relationship that is in danger, their very lives - and the lives of others - are at stake…
Margie Orford's gripping novels are sold in France, Germany, Holland, Russia, Romania, Spain and the Czech Republic. In South Africa her new publishers Jonathan Ball have re-issued her first novel LIKE CLOCKWORK, and will be doing the same with BLOOD ROSE, as well as publishing her third book, DADDY'S GIRL - the prequel to the series - in September 2009. In the UK Atlantic have published LIKE CLOCKWORK.
'Margie Orford has nailed it. BLOOD ROSE is wonderfully crafted and fully engrossing. It's a book that stays with you, even after the last page is turned.' Michael Connelly
'Margie Orford, South Africa's queen of crime writing...' Mail & Guardian
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