Black lady

Julia Fischer has been the voice of Julia Durant since the very beginning and has garnered a huge fan base with her gripping, powerful interpretations. A cunning killer challenges Julia Durant to a deadly game of chess. "Black Queen" is the 24th Frankfurt crime novel featuring the equally brave and uncompromising Commissioner Julia Durant, written by bestselling authors Daniel Holbe and Andreas Franz.

Fear spreads in Frankfurt after a homeless man is bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Has a notorious Frankfurt serial killer found a copycat?

For Commissioner Julia Durant and her team, the investigation proves to be extremely difficult: there are no witnesses and hardly any usable evidence. When a woman is murdered shortly thereafter, the cases seem unrelated, as the modus operandi is completely different. It is only when another hammer murder occurs that Julia Durant begins to ponder. Then she receives an old city map, which divides Frankfurt into eight by eight squares – like a chessboard! Each crime scene corresponds to a square. And the square of the black queen is the police headquarters.

In 1996, Andreas Franz wrote his first crime novel featuring the tough Commissioner Julia Durant. Since the bestselling author's death in 2011, Daniel Holbe has continued the successful German crime series.