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Hot Titles THE EXECUTION by Dick Wolf

PROVIDENCE RAG by Bruce DeSilva

BLACK-EYED SUSANS: A NOVEL by Julia Heaberlin

KILLER by Jonathan Kellerman

THE FINAL OPTION by Stefanie Pintoff

THE DOOMSDAY MAN by Ian Weir

7 GRAMS OF LEAD by Keith Thomson

RUN! A NOVEL by Andrew Grant

BLUR by Steven James

THE ICE TWINS by Jo Blackwood

HADES by Candice Fox

BOUNTY: A NOVEL by Michael Byrnes

IN WILDERNESS by Diane Thomas

RUIN FALLS by Jenny Milchman

CURRAWONG MANOR by Josephine Pennicott

ROOM FOR LOST SOULS by Lezanne Clannachan

VOICES by Nicole Trope

Highlights Mystery UNDER A SILENT MOON by Elizabeth Hayne

NEVER FORGET by Lisa Cutts

LONG WAY HOME by Eva Dolan

THE LAST CLINIC by Gary Gusick

UNTITLED by Laurie R. King

THE FIXER by T.E. Woods

THE ALPINE YEOMAN by Mary Daheim

MAGGIE HOPE MYSTERIES by Susan MacNeal

THE FLAVIA DE LUCE SERIES by Alan Bradley

THE VISH PURI MYSTERY SERIES by Tarquin Hall

Thriller THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Richard Zimler

THE GOOD LIFE by Frank Wheeler

WRAPPED IN WHITE by Kevin Brooks

NEVER LOOK A POLICEMAN IN THE EYE by Jason Webster

THE SCHISM by Robert Dickinson

THE LAST ALIBI by David Ellis

CICADA by Moira McKinnon

SINISTER INTENT by Karen M. Davis

DEATH BY BEAUTY by Gabrielle Lord

HAVANA REQUIEM by Paul Goldstein

Suspense FRACTURED by Dawn Barker

ACCUSATION by Catherine Bush

HUSH LITTLE BABY by Suzanne Redfearn

EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng

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THE EXECUTION by Dick Wolf #2 in the Detective Jeremy Fisk series Original Publisher: William Morrow First Publication: January 2014 Rights Holder: Fletcher & Co Option Publisher: France (City Editions) Material Available: Manuscript expected in October 2013 “An adrenaline-fueled, ripped-from-the-headlines suspense novel, as befitting a renowned TV crime drama writer and producer. The Intercept goes where few thrillers have gone before... It does for the NYPD’s Intelligence Division what Thomas Harris did for the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit.” ─ Lisa Gardner, NYT bestselling author of Catch Me NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk must stop an assassin in the pay of a shadowy cartel in The Execution, a tense thriller that superbly blends suspense, politics, intrigue and high-flying action in the tradition of Vince Flynn, David Baldacci, and Robert Crais. Ten days after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies are discovered beheaded on the United States border, each marked with a carving of a Hummingbird. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it: it is the signature of an assassin called Chuparosa. Garza has been pursuing the killer for years, yet knows little about him, except that he’s heading to New York—with the rest of the world. It’s United Nations Week in Manhattan and Jeremy Fisk can’t let grief over a devastating loss keep him from safeguarding his city. Complicating matters is the startling news of a mass murder in nearby Rockaway—and the arrival of a disturbingly beautiful and assertive Mexican cop. To have a chance at finding Chuparosa, these uneasy allies must learn to work together and fast. As they soon discover, there’s more to this threat than meets the eye—and that justice is not always blind. Dick Wolf is one of television's most respected drama series creator/producers, as the architect of one of the most successful brands in the history of television-NBC's "Law & Order." A two time Emmy Awardwinning producer, Wolf serves as creator and executive producer of the four "Law & Order" drama series. Wolf has been a creative force in television for more than 25 years, and in feature-film, his credits include writer, producer, and executive producer of various films. He is the recipient of numerous awards within and beyond the entertainment industry. Wolf is also an Honorary Consul of Monaco and is actively involved in the principality's prestigious annual television festival, and is its primary liaison with the entertainment community.

Praise for The Intercept “The Intercept is the hottest thriller of the year. Superbly written and amazingly intense, Dick Wolf has created an action-packed masterpiece. Picture Robert Ludlum writing for “24” and you’re only halfway there. Do not miss this incredible novel. Intercept yours ASAP!” ─ Brad Thor, #1 NYT bestselling author of Black List “A thriller that grabs your attention on page one and holds it until the breathtaking ending. Jeremy Fisk of the NYPD’s Intelligence Division will enter literature’s Great Detectives Hall of Fame. I hope to see more of him... It’s a head above most War on Terrorism novels.” ─ Nelson DeMille, NYT bestselling author of The Lion 1

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PROVIDENCE RAG by Bruce DeSilva Original Publisher: Forge First Publication: March 2014 Rights Holder: Einstein Thompson Agency Option Publisher: France (Actes Sud) Material Available: Manuscript (508 pages)

"Bruce DeSilva accomplishes something remarkable: he takes everything we love about the classic hardboiled detective novel and turns it into a story that's fresh, contemporary, yet timeless." ─ Joseph Finder Kwame Diggs, the youngest serial killer in history, butchered five of his neighbors before he was old enough to drive. But when he was caught 18 years ago, Rhode Island's antiquated criminal statutes required that all juveniles, no matter their crimes, be released and at age 21. Nevertheless, Diggs remains behind bars, serving time for a series of offenses supposedly committed on the inside. That these new charges were fabricated is an open secret; but nearly everybody, including Liam Mulligan, investigative reporter for the dying Providence Dispatch newspaper, is fine with it. If Diggs ever got out, more people would be sure to die. The newspaper publisher's young son, Edward Anthony Mason III, however, is not fine with it. If the state can do this to Diggs, he figures, they can do it to anybody. As Mason sets out to prove officials are subverting justice, Mulligan frantically searches for some way, any way, to keep the psychopath locked up. The two colleagues find themselves pitted against one another in a high-stakes race against time ─ and a moral dilemma that has no right answer.

Bruce DeSilva is the author of Rogue Island, which won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the 2011 Macavity Award for Best Debut (and was nominated for several other awards) and the follow-up Cliff Walk. Formerly the Associated Press’s writing coach, DeSilva is now a master’s thesis advisor at the Columbia University School of Journalism. Stories by DeSilva have won a Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Award (twice), and more. Providence Rag is the first book in a three-book deal.

Previous Publishers French (Actes Sud), Hebrew (Aryeh Nir), Italian (Giunti Editore), Japanese (Hayakawa), Korean (Sigongsa), Norwegian (Vendetta Forlag), Portuguese/Brazil (Rocco), Russian (AST), Spanish/Mexico (Grupo Editorial Patria), Spanish/Spain (Ediciones Pamies)

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BLACK-EYED SUSANS: A NOVEL by Julia Heaberlin Original Publisher: Ballantine First Publication: March 2015 Rights Holder: Random House US Material Available: Manuscript expected in January 2014 "Playing Dead is an accomplished thriller, with twists that cut like barbed wire. Sure-footed, suspenseful, and full of heart." ─ Meg Gardiner, Edgar-award winning author, on Playing Dead “Packed with larger-than-life characters, twisty and dangerous secrets, and a captivating heroine you can’t help but root for as the stakes skyrocket and her own terrifying past roars back to claim her.” — Carla Buckley, author of The Things That Keep Us Here, on Lie Still

The author of the acclaimed début, Playing Dead, returns with a captivating, chilling tale featuring Tessie Cartwright, who at the age of sixteen was found in a Texas field, piled into a half-dug grave with a strangled college student, and the bones o two other girls who can’t be identified. Now, after twenty years, the cases are reopened. Julia Heaberlin was a journalist for over twenty years for newspapers including the Fort-Worth Star Telegram and the Detroit News. Playing Dead is ideal for fans of taut domestic suspense. Heaberlin writes what she knows. The astonishing twists of this novel are close to home for the author ─ this story is based on her actual life's experience. Previous Publishers Dutch (Mistral), French (Presses de la Cité), German (DTV), Russian (Book Family Leisure), UK (Faber & Faber, two-book deal)

Praise for Julia Heaberlin "Tommie is a smart, sassy, loving, and doggedly persistent narrator in this fast-moving mystery that occasionally tugs at the heartstrings. A promising debut." ─ Booklist, on Playing Dead “Julia Heaberlin deceives the reader in the most deliciously chilling way in Lie Still: With gorgeous prose and sterling character work, she takes us on a deeply felt and wonderfully composed thrill ride. Layer after layer of secrets, longing, and deception is peeled away and we begin to dread the twisted kernel at the heart, never guessing what Heaberlin has in store for us.” — Sophie Littlefield, bestselling author of Garden of Stones, on Lie Still “Mix a pregnant New Yorker with a big secret, an aging Southern belle who collects secrets like recipes, an ex–pageant queen, several plastic surgery victims, and a maid with an eye for revenge. Set in an upscale Texas community, and leaven with just the right amount of humor. I thoroughly enjoyed the result: a page-turning Texas gothic.” — Lisa Brackmann, author of Getaway, on Lie still

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KILLER by Jonathan Kellerman #29 in the Alex Delaware series Original Publisher: Ballantine First Publication: February 2014 Rights Holder: Random House US Rights Sold: German (Random House) Material Available: Manuscript imminent "Kellerman shows why he is called the master of the psychological thriller. ─ The Orlando Sentinel In #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s thrilling new blockbuster, a vengeful killer sets his sights on psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware while he rattles a ticking clock to save a young boy’s life.

The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend. And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Alex knows he’s been snared in a toxic web of pathology. Nothing would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v. Sykes. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Alex knows he must work with longtime friend Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving jurists in order to save an innocent life. Kellerman’s sales have never been stronger and his books have appeared on virtually every bestseller list, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. There are more than 75 million Kellerman novels in print, audio and ebook! His next book Motive will be published in February 2015.

Jonathan Kellerman has brought his expertise as a clinical psychologist to numerous New York Times bestselling tales of suspense translated into two dozen languages, including the Alex Delaware novels. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards, and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. He and his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, have four children, including the novelists Jesse Kellerman and Aliza Kellerman. Kellerman lives in Los Angeles and New Mexico.

Previous Publishers Czech (Domino), Dutch (Luitingh-Sijthoff), French (Editions du Seuil), German (Random House), Italian (Fanucci), Polish (Amber), Portuguese/Portugal (Humanity’s Friends), Romanian (Profil), Russian (AST), Serbian (Mana & Manjana), Spanish (Belacqua & Patria), Thai (Nokhook), Vietnamese (Literature Publishing House), UK (Headline)

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THE FINAL OPTION by Stefanie Pintoff Original Publisher: Delacorte First Publication: April 2014 Rights Holder: Random House US Rights Sold: Russian (AST) Material Available: Manuscript expected in December 2013 A new contemporary series by Edgar award-winning author Stefanie Pintoff.

Three women. Each knowing she's about to die. Each given only one choice: how. When a fourth victim is abducted, it's up to FBI agent Eve Dante and her secret unit of ex-criminals to bring the serial killer to justice before it's too late. When the FBI turns to a team of reformed convicts to catch a monster. Stefanie Pintoff is the Edgar® award-winning author of a mystery series where early criminal science meets the dark side of old New York. Her writing has also earned nominations for the Anthony, Macavity, and Agatha awards. Now a full time writer, she lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Praise for In the Shadow of Gotham “Pintoff's debut… will remind many of Caleb Carr at his best... The period detail, characterizations and plotting are all top-notch, and Ziele has enough depth to carry a series.” ─ Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The first winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition nicely contrasts academic theorizing with the reality of police detection set against the backdrop of a vividly depicted turn-of-the-century Gotham. Recommend to readers who enjoy historicals of this period, such as Caleb Carr’s The Alienist and Ann Stamos’s Bitter Tide.” ─ Library Journal (starred review) “Pintoff excavates a rich vein of early criminology… She also delivers a gripping detective story… Great for dexterous plotting and for New York atmosphere at the turn of the last century.” ─ Booklist “What a fabulous first novel… Pintoff’s fascinating historical mystery has believable multidimensional characters… The mystery is original and carefully planned.” ─ Romantic Times “Congratulations to Stefanie Pintoff on this outstanding debut novel! An appealing character, terrific suspense, and skillful interweaving of historical detail make In the Shadow of Gotham a winner.” ─ Marcia Muller, author of Burn Out "Stefanie Pintoff captures time and place expertly while displaying the procedures and challenges of police work at the dawn of a new age in forensics in this fine first novel. In the Shadow of Gotham will fascinate and educate even as it holds the reader in the suspense of a good mystery. That's a special package." ─ Michael Koryta author of Envy the Night 5

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THE DOOMSDAY MAN by Ian Weir Original Publisher: Goose Lane First Publication: Fall 2014 Rights Holder: Transatlantic Literary Material Available: Manuscript in the final stage of editing

Like the thriller From Hell, and reminiscent of Carlos Ruiz Zafon, this haunting story will throw you into the streets of Regency London. Based on meticulous research steeped in scientific lore, this is a novel about love & redemption, death & resurrection.

London, 1816. The Napoleonic War is over, Romanticism is at its high tide, and the great city is charged with the thrill of scientific discovery and Regency abandon. Into this milieu, the nineteen-year-old foundling Will Starling returns from the Continent, having spent five years assisting military surgeon Alec Comrie. Cocky, charming and damaged, Will is helping Comrie build a civilian practice—and a life—in London’s rough Cripplegate area. This means entering into an uneasy alliance with the Doomsday Men: grave robbers who supply London’s surgeons and anatomists with cadavers for dissection. When a grave robbing goes terribly wrong, it sets in motion a sequence of events that leads to the murder of a moneylender and the arrest of a young woman, Meg Nancarrow. As Meg is sentenced to hang, Will grows convinced that she is the innocent victim of an unholy conspiracy, and that the conspiracy traces itself back to Dionysus Atherton, an old university friend of Comrie’s and the brightest of London’s emerging surgical stars. There are wild rumours about Atherton: whispers of experiments on corpses not quite dead—indeed, on corpses wide awake and wailing—in a bid to unlock the mystery of death itself. Will works obsessively to ferret out the truth, aided by an aspiring actress and occasional Cyprian named Annie Smollet. The investigation twists and turns through brothels and charnel houses and the mansions of Mayfair, to a final confrontation and a shocking truth—about Dionysus Atherton, and about Will himself. Ian Weir is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His first novel, Daniel O’Thunder, was named one of the top historical novels of 2011 by Library Journal and was a finalist for four awards: The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for First Book, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Weir was writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed CBC miniseries Dragon Boys and is creator and executive producer of the CBC hit Arctic Air. He has also written more than 150 episodes for over twenty different series, stage plays, radio plays, and young adult novels. Ian lives near Vancouver, B.C., with his wife Jude and their daughter.

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7 GRAMS OF LEAD by Keith Thomson Original Publisher: Doubleday First Publication: February 2014 Rights Holder: Fletcher & Co Material Available: Manuscript (359 pages) “Thomson again hits a sweet spot in this highly original thriller, balancing gripping action sequences with humor a step or two above what you'd expect from the genre… Buoyant, fast and fun…” – Kirkus Reviews on Once a Spy “An ingenious plot supported by insider tradecraft material.” – Porter J. Goss, Former Director of the CIA

New York Times bestselling author Keith Thomson delivers another riveting international spy thriller.

When scientists Leonid and Bella Sokolov generate the first pulse from their newly developed e-bomb, they unintentionally crash a US flight of 230 passengers. The accident draws the attention of a shadowy spy named Canning, who’s gathering intelligence on the e-bomb with plans to sell the technology on the black market. When Canning’s operation goes awry, he’s forced to kill Leonid Sokolov. Canning shoots him with a lead bullet weighing 7 grams, hoping the odd bullet sends the homicide investigation on a wild goose chase. (Lead bullets haven’t been used for almost 100 years, and 8 grams was their standard weight, not 7). Canning’s bullet also calls to mind Soviet dictator’s Joseph Stalin’s saying that “seven grams of lead to the head” will solve most problems. Because Sokolov was believed to be recruited from Russia to work for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the bullet sends a politically charged message. After Sokolov’s murder, a young chief of staff to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Catherine Peretti, is also murdered. Her journalist friend Russ Thornton starts to investigate her death… only to discover that he’s been implanted with a listening device so complex that the National Security Agency has never seen such advanced technology. With the wit of Carl Hiassen and the action of Robert Ludlum, Keith Thomson takes readers on a wild ride of suspenseful espionage and high-tech gadgetry as the connections between the two murders—and the shadowy cast of characters surrounding them—is brought to light.

Keith Thomson writes about intelligence and other matters for The Huffington Post. His earlier novels include the New York Times bestselling Once a Spy (Doubleday, 2010) and Twice a Spy (Doubleday, 2011). He was a semi-pro baseball player in France and editorial cartoonist for Newsday. Thomson is also a screenwriter and filmmaker with a short film shown at Sundance.

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RUN! A NOVEL by Andrew Grant Original Publisher: Ballantine First Publication: October 2014 Rights Holder: Random House US Material Available: Manuscript expected in October 2013 “Andrew Grant storms onto the scene with a thriller that is pure entertainment. He has a relentless writing style that is grippingly addictive and heralds a remarkable talent in the making. I couldn't put it down.” ─ Vince Flynn, on Even A new novel by the acclaimed author of Even and Die Twice. For fans of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and John Grisham’s The Firm, comes a high-octane thriller for anyone who has ever wondered just how dangerous their jobs might be. Run! Is an exciting story of an indemand computer consultant whose life starts to unravel as he becomes aware that he’s being framed.

Andrew Grant was born in Birmingham, England, and attended the University of Sheffield where he studied English Literature and Drama. After running a small independent theatre company, he later moved into the telecommunications industry for fifteen years. He then began to write. Andrew is married to novelist Tasha Alexander and they live in Chicago and the UK.

Praise for Even “Andrew Grant's debut novel reads like it was written by an old pro with new things to say. Even is a bit of LeCarré and Ian Fleming, but with more grit and a sharper edge. Wonderful sardonic wit and crackling dialogue.” ─ Nelson DeMille “In Even, Andrew Grant introduces British naval intelligence officer David Trevellyan, a man born to fight and trained to win, locked in a suspenseful contest with terrifying adversaries. An excellent thriller that feels like breaking news.” ─ Thomas Perry “The first paragraph is a whopper... the last one made me gasp. With surprise. With delight. David Trevellyan is by turns witty and wicked. Fans of 007 will be shaken and stirred.” ─ Sandra Brown “Modern noir at its best... Even is brilliantly plotted and smart, and delivers the bone-jarring kick of a .45. Here's hoping author Grant is hard at work on the next installment featuring his thoroughly compelling tough guy hero, David Trevellyan.” ─ Jeffery Deaver “Move over Jason Bourne. British Marine David Trevellyan can outwit, outmaneuver and overpower the best of them in this rocket-ride of a thriller. I always like a man who knows how to get even...” ─ Lisa Gardner “Even is a slam-bam humdinger of a thriller, with breakneck pacing that won't leave you even a moment to catch your breath. Andrew Grant has created a hero so intriguing that readers will surely clamor for the next book in what I hope will be a long-lived series. I will certainly be looking forward to it!” ─ Tess Gerritsen 8

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BLUR by Steven James #1 in the Blurred Reality Trilogy Original Publisher: Amazon Publishing First Publication: Spring 2014 Rights Holder: Einstein Thompson Material Available: Proposal available (39 pages) **The award-winning author comes back with a new trilogy** “Master storyteller at the peak of his game”─ Publishers Weekly “With every new book, Steven James elevates his game and lifts his readers with him. Placebo is a winner! Highly recommended.” ─ Davis Bunn, bestselling author of Lion of Babylon The isolated small town of Beldon, Wisconsin is shocked when a teenage girl’s body is discovered in a nearby lake. Just like everyone else, high school football star Daniel Byers, son of the town’s sheriff, believes Emily Jackson’s drowning was accidental. But at her funeral, he has a terrifying vision of her sitting up in the coffin and asking for his help. Suddenly he begins to suspect that Emily was murdered. However, no one believes him after it’s discovered he’s suffering from strange and terrifying hallucinations that seem to be telling him more than they should about the girl’s death. When Daniel sets out to solve Emily’s death, the real killer sets him up for the murder. Now on the run and haunted by hallucinations that make it more and more difficult for Daniel to distinguish between fantasy and reality, he has to find the killer before the police find him - and before he loses his weakening grip and slips further and further into his own private blurred reality.

Steven James is the award-winning author of numerous books including the Patrick Bowers thrillers (Revell and NAL) which have sold over 300,000 copies. Library Journal listed his latest action thriller The Queen as one of the best novels of 2011 and his thriller The Pawn was optioned by ABC Studios in 2010. It also reached #10 on the CBA fiction bestsellers list and is a finalist for the 2008 Christy Awards. James earned a Master's Degree in Storytelling and serves as a contributing editor to Writer's Digest.

Praise for Steven James “With a multi-dimensional quality, Steven James writes with a confident, assured ease. Just good, oldfashioned, gimmick free storytelling that pushes the envelope to the edge and beyond.” — Steve Berry, NYT bestselling author of The Columbus Affair “His tightly woven, adrenaline-laced plots leave readers breathless.” ─ The Suspense Zone, on The King “Gripping and intense, it will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page.” ─ Gayle Lynds, NYT bestselling author of The Book of Spies, on Placebo

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THE ICE TWINS by Jo Blackwood Original Publisher: HarperCollins First Publication: Spring 2014 Rights Holder: Furniss Lawton Material Available: Manuscript expected in October 2013

On a remote Scottish Island, a grieving mother and her surviving young daughter find themselves isolated and vulnerable… A year after one of their twin daughters, Lydia, dies in a terrible accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft are on the verge of bankruptcy and make the life-changing decision to move to a tiny Scottish Ireland Angus has inherited from his grandmother. But the move is fraught with difficulty, particularly as the Moorcrofts surviving daughter, Kirstie, seems to be having a delayed reaction to her twin sister’s death, claiming that she is in fact Lydia and it was Kirstie who died. As winter encroaches, the fog rolls in, bringing with it a creeping atmosphere of unease. Angus is forced to spend more and more time away from the island for work, Lydia is having trouble making friends at school and Sarah is feeling more and more isolated. When a violent storm leaves Sarah an Kirstie completely stranded and alone, Sarah finds herself tortured by the past – what really happened on that fateful day her daughter died?

Jo Blackwood is the pseudonym of a bestselling published author. Jo Blackwood is a journalist and writer, and lives in London.

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HADES by Candice Fox Original Publisher: Random House First Publication: January 2014 Rights Holder: The Naher Agency Rights Sold: Israel (Keter Books), US & Canada (Kensington Publishing)

A dark, compelling and original thriller that will have you spellbound from its atmospheric opening pages to its shocking climax. Hades is the debut of a stunning new talent in crime fiction.

Hades Archer, the man they call the Lord of the Underworld, surrounds himself with the things others leave behind. Their trash becomes the twisted sculptures that line his junkyard. The bodies they want disposed of become his problem â&#x201D;&#x20AC; for a fee. Then one night a man arrives on his doorstep, clutching a small bundle that he wants â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;lost'. And Hades makes a decision that will change everything... Twenty years later, homicide detective Frank Bennett feels like the luckiest man on the force when he meets his new partner, the dark and beautiful Eden Archer. But there's something strange about Eden and her brother, Eric. Something he can't quite put his finger on. When the two detectives are called to the scene of an attempted drowning, they find a traumatised victim telling a story that's hard to believe â&#x201D;&#x20AC; until the divers start bringing up bodies. Frank is now on the hunt for a very different kind of serial killer: one who offers the sick and dying hope at murderous cost. At first, his partner's sharp instincts come in handy. Soon, he's wondering if she's as dangerous as the man they hunt.

Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney's western suburbs. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories. Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism. Hades is her first novel and she is currently working on its sequel.

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BOUNTY: A NOVEL by Michael Byrnes Original Publisher: Ballantine First Publication: March 2015 Rights Holder: Random House US Option Publisher: France (Belfond) Material Available: Manuscript expected in January 2014 “Exciting, intelligent and incredibly true to life.” ─ Simcha Jacobovici, co-author of The Jesus Family Tomb

Mob justice meets the internet via a mysterious viral web site, where a public enraged by unrepentant, unpunished crooks, and corrupt power players can bid up bounties to take them down – an “EBay for hired hits” – in this high concept thriller by internationally bestselling author Michael Byrnes.

Michael Byrnes is an internationally bestselling author of three previously published thrillers (think Dan Brown meets James Rollins).

Praise for Michael Byrnes “A breathless race through real historical fact laced generously with artistic license… An immensely enjoyable read.” ─ Bookseller, UK, on The Sacred Bones “A formulaic plot, which includes abduction and the threat of sexual violence, builds to a denouement that will be familiar to viewers of the first Indiana Jones movie.” ─ Publishers Weekly, on The Scared Blood “Harvest of Greed neatly encapsulates the subterranean plots and machinations often brewing in global commodity markets, which can lead to widespread disruption and damage… Harvest of Greed is a ripsnorting story that lays out their game-plan step by venal step.” ─ Warren Reed, former Australian intelligence officer, on Harvest of Greed “Michael Byrnes has created a wonderful mix of suspense and intrique with the realites of world markets… It makes for a particularly satisfying read.” ─ John McManus, on Harvest of Greed

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IN WILDERNESS by Diane Thomas Original Publisher: Bantam First Publication: April 2015 Rights Holder: Random House US Material Available: Manuscript (345 pages) **Previously nominated for a Pushcart Prize** “May engrave itself into the memories of more readers than To Kill a Mockingbird.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on The Year the Music Changed

In Wilderness is a novel of literary suspense set in a remote Appalachian forest in the late sixties. It uses an obsessive and dangerous erotic relationship between a 20-year-old Vietnam veteran (with what would today be termed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and a 38-year-old woman dying of an untreatable wasting disease exacerbated by contact with the modern world to explore our place in nature, our innate will to heal, and the unlikely signs and crooked paths that lead us to redemption. Diane's writing will take your breath away and you won't be able to put it down. The novel has everything a novel should have: it's dark and suspenseful, with a literary flavor while remaining commercial; it includes sex, love, death, nature, and even a dog named, well... "dog".

Diane Thomas is in her early 70s and has a MFA from Columbia University in Theatre and Film History and Criticism. She studied in the creative writing program at Georgia State University and has worked as theatre and film critic for The Atlanta Journal Constitution, as a staff writer for Atlanta magazine and as a freelance writer/editor with articles in Redbook, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. In 2009, she relocated from a small southern Appalachian community to Santa Fe, where she chairs Reel New Mexico, a monthly showcase for work by the state's independent filmmakers. Her first novel, The Year The Music Changed, was published in 2005 by The Toby Press, a small literary house. It received raves from Library Journal, Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. An early version of In Wilderness (under the title The Clearing) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Praise for The Year the Music Changed “Warm, lively and immensely readable.” ─ Publishers Weekly “A nearly impossible feat of the creative imagination, defying the stigma of epistolary fiction and, better, defying the overpowering cliche of Elvis Presley.” ─ Raleigh News Observer “Thomas unerringly depicts a pivotal time in American culture. More importantly, she has just as convincingly rendered the timeless intricacies of the human heart.” — Ron Rash, author of Serena “A bittersweet, funny, big-hearted book that perfectly captures an era...” — Joshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, and Backstreet Saints 13

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RUIN FALLS by Jenny Milchman Original Publisher: Ballantine First Publication: May 2014 Rights Holder: Random House Material Available: Manuscript (397 pages) “Jenny Milchman proves she is a master of psychological suspense in this page-turner of a novel. Cover of Snow makes for an outstanding debut.” ─ Stefanie Pintoff, 2010 Edgar award winner for Best First Novel In a suspenseful follow-up to her critically acclaimed Cover of Snow, Jenny Milchman ratchets up the tension with this edge-of-your-seat story of a mother determined to find her missing children. Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving their remote home in the Adirondack Mountains behind for a while. Instead, she feels uneasy. Her children, eight-yearold Reid and six-year-old Ally, have only met their paternal grandparents a handful of times. But Liz’s husband, Paul, has decided that, despite a strained relationship with his mother and father, they should visit the farm in western New York where he spent his childhood. On their way to the farm, the family stops at a hotel for the night. In the morning, when Liz checks on her sleeping children, all of her anxiety from the day before comes roaring back to life: Ally and Reid are nowhere to be found. Blind panic slides into ice-cold terror as the hours tick by without anyone finding a trace of her kids. Soon, Paul and Liz are being interviewed by police, an Amber Alert is issued, and detectives are called in. Frantic worry and helplessness threaten to overtake Liz’s mind—but in a sudden, gut-wrenching instant she realizes that it was no stranger who slipped into the hotel room that night. Someone she trusted completely has betrayed her. Liz knows that Ally and Reid are safe, but she will stop at nothing to find them and get them back. Jenny Milchman holds a master’s degree in psychology from the New School, and has worked in community mental health for 13 years. Cover of Snow, garnered universally strong praise, from the New York Times, to bestselling author Lee Child, to a starred Booklist review and has nearly 20,000 in print after 3 printings. Previous Publishers German (Lübbe), Italian (Sperling), Norwegian (Pantagruel)

Praise for Cover of Snow “Everything a great suspense novel should be ─ tense, emotional, mysterious, and satisfying... Let’s hope this is the start of a long career.” ─ Lee Child, #1 NYT bestselling author of A Wanted Man “A terrific debut.” ─ Harlan Coben, #1 NYT bestselling author of Seconds Away “Absorbing from start to finish: Jenny Milchman writes a deeply felt and suspenseful story of a woman whose life is upended by a death and a dark secret. While perceptively reflecting on community and our connections to one another, Cover of Snow is also an insightful look at the intimacies and secrets of marriage.” ─ Nancy Pickard, bestselling author of The Scent of Rain and Lightning 14

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CURRAWONG MANOR by Josephine Pennicott Original Publisher: Pan Macmillan First Publication: TBA Rights Holder: The Plot Lounge Rights Sold: Germany (Ullstein) Material Available: Manuscript imminent “We loved this evocative, gothic debut which flicks between past and present Tasmania. A satisfying read to curl up with on a Saturday afternoon.” ─ Woman’s Day, on Poet’s Cottage A story of ghosts, murder, lies, art, scandal and love, that deftly switches between the present and the war-torn 1940s. In the 1940s, Currawong Manor (or the Ruins as it is known locally) becomes the focus of intense media scrutiny when a horrific crime shatters the small upper-mountains village: Arthur Partridge, an artist who lives in the manor, claims to have killed his own daughter, Shalimar. Mount Bellwood is united in its anger and grief against the artist and all the residents of the Ruins, because all who live at Currawong Manor have a story – and a secret. But who is really guilty? Arthur? Or did he confess because his mind was destroyed by grief after the mysterious disappearance of his loved son, Jacky in nearby Owlbone Woods? It’s said in Mount Bellwood that ‘The Ruins’ ruins lives, and that when the currawongs gather on the roof of the manor it heralds either a birth... or a death. In the present day, a group of people meet with a desperate need to unearth the truth about Arthur Partridge. Elizabeth Thorrington, a young photographer and Arthur’s granddaughter, is trying to conceive and is having serious marital problems. She takes up residency at Currawong Manor – still a bohemian haunt and now artist’s retreat – to photograph Ginger, the last surviving Flower, for a picture book called The Flowers of the Ruins. Delving into Currawong Manor’s past with the feisty Ginger, Elizabeth uncovers a more shocking and sinister truth than she could have imagined – and puts herself at risk, because it seems that somebody else in Mount Bellwood who knows a secret and is prepared to do anything to stop the truth being unearthed. As Elizabeth and Ginger come closer to the secret behind The Ruins, the currawongs begin to gather again, but what does their arrival herald: life or… death? Josephine Pennicott is an award-winning crime writer. Her story Birthing the Demons won the 2001 Scarlet Stiletto, and she has won the Kerry Greenwood Domestic Malice Prize twice, with Hail Mary (2003) and Tadpole (2004). Josephine’s first three novels were dark fantasy: Circle of Nine, Bride of the Stone and A Fire in the Shell. Circle of Nine was named as one of 2001’s best debut novels in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow, editors). She has worked in a range of jobs (including nurse, housemaid, life-drawing model and sales assistant) and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales. Josephine lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband and daughter. Poet’s Cottage is her first novel in the genre of women’s commercial fiction.

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ROOM FOR LOST SOULS by Lezanne Clannachan Original Publisher: Orion First Publication: April 2014 Rights Holder: Furniss Lawton Material Available: Manuscript expected in November 2013 “A tremendous debut with real psychological texture. The plotting is subtle, the balance between past and present finely judged, the prose fresh and precise.” ─ Nigel Farndale, bestselling author of The Blasphemer, on Jellybird Pia has struggled with agoraphobia for several years. Living in an architecturally-protected house in North London, she rents out rooms to lodgers – but only to women. When one of her lodgers moves on, she has a room to fill and for once she ignores her own rule. Mark’s case is compelling – he’s handsome, charming, and he needs a break. Surely he’s no threat to her? Having granted him the room, Pia begins to hear strange noises at night and then one of her other tenants disappears. It seems the one person she broke her rule for might tear her safety and security apart…

JELLYBIRD by Lezanne Clannachan Original Publisher: Orion First Publication: March 2013 Rights Holder: Furniss Lawton Material Available: Manuscript (424 pages) “This is a nail-biting debut full of twists and betrayal ─ an author to look for again.” ─ Candis Magazine Jessica should have everything to make her happy: a loving husband, a growing reputation as a jewellery designer, hope for a family of her own in the future. Then she meets Libby ─ flattering, attentive ─ and believes she has found the friendship she missed out on as a child. Until Jessica catches her husband and Libby alone, heads together in whispered collusion. With her life unravelling, Jessica flees home to the seaside town where she grew up. The discovery of an old postcard among her childhood belongings sends Jessica in search of her first love, Thomas, 'the ghost boy' who disappeared one night seventeen years ago. The last time Jessica saw Thomas he was covered in blood and begging her to hide him. Now to find him, Jessica must confront the secrets that link her to Libby, the missing boy and a brutal murder.

Lezanne Clannachan was born in Denmark and moved to England to complete her education. She has also lived in Singapore, Mozambique and Australia. Her first novel, Jellybird, will be published by Orion in 2013 and she is currently working on a second, A room for Lost Souls, which will be published in Spring 2014. Lezanne also writes short stories. She divides her time between West Sussex and Switzerland.

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VOICES by Nicole Trope Original Publisher: Allen & Unwin First Publication: June 2014 Rights Holder: The Naher Agency Material Available: Manuscript imminent

Writing in the tradition of Jodi Picoult and Caroline Overington, Nicole Trope is carving a name for herself in the world of commercial fiction. Trope’s latest novel presents yet another moral dilemma for her protagonists. When an obese woman who has always longed for a child finds a newborn baby in a lavatory at her local shopping centre, she feels it has been sent to her for a reason. When a teenage girl collapses in a pool of blood in the family bathroom, her father is in shock and denial by the news that the bleeding was caused by the birth of a child. Is loving and raising a baby nobody else wants a crime? Is not being able to remember the trauma of a lone teenage birth and the subsequent fate of your baby a crime? In Nicole Trope’s third novel, she draws her readers into a world in which they cannot help but love the women she puts on the wrong side of the law. Nicole Trope’s first novel, The Boy Under the Table, was published in 2012 and her second, Three Hours Late, in 2013. Her fourth novel, Chick, Chick, is ready for submission.

Praise for The Boy Under the Table “I found The Boy Under the Table impossible to put down once I had started ─ the pace is unrelenting and the story is utterly engrossing. The conclusion is tinged with both hope and sadness and I held my children a little tighter and a lot longer when I had finished. The Boy Under the Table is a confronting story, but one that is well worth reading.” ─ Great Aussie Reads “While this could have made for a harrowing read, the book is also littered with the kinds of characters that restore your faith in humanity... There's no sentimentality here, just the real and harrowing experiences of a family, and a community, touched by tragedy.” ─ Reading Bar

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UNDER A SILENT MOON by Elizabeth Haynes Original Publisher: Little Brown UK First Publication: Autumn 2013 (e-book), Spring 2014 (physical book) Rights Holder: Adrian Weston Rights Sold: Dutch (De Bezige Bij), German (Berlin Verlag), US (HarperCollins) Material Available: Manuscript (331 pages) “It's hard to put the uniqueness of Elizabeth Haynes' writing into words. Her stories grip you by the throat and force you to acknowledge that this is what real crime and real horror look and feel like, as well as real love, hope, fear. Suddenly, much of the other crime fiction you've read seems, in comparison, rather like stories made up by writers. Haynes is the most exciting thing to happen to crime fiction in a long time.” ─ Sophie Hannah, author of Kind of Cruel An unsettling and compulsively readable novel that will keep you gripped until the very last page. First of a thrilling new crime series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Louisa Smith from a sensational, authentic crime fiction voice. In the crisp, early morning hours, the police are called to a suspected murder at a farm outside a small English village. A beautiful young woman has been found dead, blood all over the cottage she lives in. At the same time, the police respond to a reported female suicide, where a car has fallen into a local quarry. As DCI Louisa Smith and her team gather the evidence, they discover a link between these two women, a link which has sealed their dreadful fate one cold night, under a silent moon.

Elizabeth Haynes grew up in Seaford, Sussex and studied English, German and Art History at Leicester University. Previous jobs on a long and winding career path have included selling cars, working as a medical rep and selling printing consumables. She currently works as a police intelligence analyst. Previous Publishers ANZ (Text Publishing), Bulgarian (Bard), Canada (HarperCollins), Croatian (Mozaik Knjiga), Dutch (Uitgeverij Cargo/Slaughter House), French (Presses de la Cité), German (Diana Verlag/Random House), Hebrew (Kinneret-Zmora), Hungarian (Alexandra Kiadó), Italian (GIANO), Lithuanian (Jotema), Norwegian (Bastion Forlag), Polish (Papierowy Ksiezyc), Portuguese/Brazil (Intrinseca), Serbian (Laguna), Slovenian (Mladinska Knjiga Zalozba), Spanish (SUMA), Swedish (Lind), Traditional Chinese/Taiwan (Rye Field Publications), Turkish (Arti Yayin Dagitim), USA (Harper)

Praise for Into the Darkest Corner “Haynes is a master at building tension to unbearable heights, and her thorough and thoughtful exploration of the psychological fallout of abuse adds a unique layer to the story… Into the Darkest Corner is a terrifying thriller.” ─ BookPage 18

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NEVER FORGET by Lisa Cutts #1 in the new DC Nina Foster series Original Publisher: Myriad Editions First Publication: July 2013 Rights Holder: Adrian Weston Material Available: Manuscript (368 pages) “Never Forget does what crime fiction has never managed to do before ─ to take the reader directly to the fast-beating heart of a police investigation… Never Forget is a complex, chilling and brilliantly clever debut that keeps you guessing to the final, thrilling sentence.” ─ Elizabeth Haynes The first in the DC Nina Foster series, this fast-paced crime début by police insider Lisa Cutts takes us to the heart of the Major Incident Room and introduces a gutsy new heroine to the crime scene. Following a frenzied stabbing, DC Nina Foster is drafted into her first murder investigation. With DCI Stan McGuire as her mentor and John (‘Wingsy’) Wing as her partner, she thrives on the pace and banter that go with the job. As the body count increases and the force's biggest-ever manhunt gets underway, Nina is determined to find the murderer. But when the story of her own traumatic childhood comes to light – a past she's worked hard to hide – her role on the team is threatened. Suddenly her job, her peace of mind and her safety are all in danger. Never Forget is viscerally convincing and draws closely on the author's own experience as a serving police officer with a background in criminal investigation. It represents the most authentic end of crime fiction, packed with twists and turns and rich with behind-the-scenes insights into the complex world of serious crime investigation. Lisa Cutts is the daughter of a former Metropolitan Police officer. She studied Law before becoming a police officer herself, later achieving a second degree in Applied Criminal Investigation. She lives in Kent with her husband, a retired police officer, where she balances working full-time for Kent Police with writing crime fiction. Remember, Remember, the second book in the DC Nina Foster series, will be published by Myriad in 2015.

Praise for Never Forget “The first in a thrilling new detective series from a British author who is an experienced and serving police officer. Never Forget will appeal to fans who want to know more about the reality of crime investigation, and is perfect for fans of Cath Staincliffe and Elizabeth Haynes.” ─ We Love This Book: Hot Book selection “A good story that stays true to the way that it really happens. It is a book you’ll read again – you might know the name of the villain, but you’ll read for the pleasure of seeing how it was all done.” ─ The Bookbag “Never Forget is an impressive début and I look forward to hearing more about Nina.” ─ Euro Crime “The action is fast and well-paced, the characters interesting and believable and the storytelling is gripping. Lisa Cutts is a talented writer and she brings to life the reality of the Major Incident Room.” ─ Lisa Reads Books 19

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LONG WAY HOME by Eva Dolan Original Publisher: Harvill Secker/RHUK First Publication: January 2014 Rights Holder: Random House UK Rights Sold: Sweden (Modernista) Material available: Manuscript (368pp) “It’s rare to come across a debut novel so carefully crafted. Eva Dolan writes with faultless plotting and attention to detail.” ─ Mari Hannah The start of a major new crime series from a CWA Debut Daggers shortlisted author featuring a detective duo from the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit. Like the very best crime fiction, it’s about the writing, characters and issues as much as it is the plot.

Peterborough is changing. Migrant workers, both legal and illegal, are working in the fields, the factories and the pubs of the town. Most keep their heads down, keen to avoid trouble and DI Zigic and DS Ferreira from the local Hate Crimes Unit know all too well the issues that come with having a foreign name, no matter how long you’ve lived here. While Zigic ignores his father-in-law's needling about his Serbian background, Ferreira still burns with the resentment of years of childhood bullying for her Portuguese name and looks. But when a man is burnt alive in a suburban garden shed, it brings an unwelcome spotlight on to that world, and the two detectives are faced with investigating a murder in a community that has more reason than most not to trust the police. While DS Ferreira from Peterborough's Hate Crimes unit thinks they've found their killers, her boss, DI Zigic isn't so sure. It seems that some other people might have had good reason to see Jaan dead: Andrus Tombak, slum landlord – witnesses say the two had fought; Clinton Renfrew, convicted arsonist, and EDL member; Fintan Maloney, landlord of Irish pub, Maloneys, where there’s more on offer than just the beer; and any number of local thugs who, as ‘employers’, abuse cheap foreign labour. Against a background of simmering racial tension, Ferreira and Zigic must work with both victims and villains alike in this brilliantly written debut from a new crime writing talent.

Eva Dolan is a young and talented writer, a younger and edgier version of Denise Mina and, like Susan Hill, has the same capacity to draw the reader in. As a teenager she was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger for unpublished writers.

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THE LAST CLINIC by Gary Gusick A Darla Cavannah Mystery First Publisher: Alibi e-book First Publication: November 2013 Rights Holder: Random House Material Available: Manuscript (354 pages)

In a fast-paced, suspenseful debut novel for fans of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner, detective Darla Cavannah goes Deep South in pursuit of a merciless killer. Outside the local women’s health clinic, the Reverend Jimmy Aldridge waving his protest sign is a familiar sight. But that changes early one morning when someone shoots the beloved Reverend Jimmy dead. Sheriff Shelby Mitchell knows the preacher’s murder will shock the good people of Jackson—and the pressure to find the killer is immediate and intense, which is why Shelby calls in detective Darla Cavannah. When police detective Darla moved from Philadelphia to Jackson with her husband — hometown football hero Hugh “the Glue” Cavannah — she never imagined the culture shock that awaited. Then after Hugh dies in a car crash, Darla enters a self-imposed exile in her Mississippi home, taking a leave of absence from the sheriff’s department. Now she’s called back to duty — or coerced, more like it, with Shelby slathering on his good-ole-boy charm nice and thick, like on a helping of barbecue. Reluctantly partnered with a mulish Elvis impersonator, and assisted by computer geek Uther Pendragon Johnson, Darla keeps a cool head even as the community demands an arrest. The court of public opinion has already convicted the clinic’s doctor, Stephen Nicoletti, but Darla is just as sure he’s not guilty — even as she fights her growing attraction to him. From the genteel suburbs to a raunchy strip club, Darla follows a trail of dirty money and nasty secrets — until the day of judgment comes, and she faces down an ungodly assassin.

Gary Gusick is a retired advertising executive with over thirty years experience as a copywriter and creative director. He is a winner numerous national and international awards for creative excellence in advertising. The Last Clinic is his first novel.

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UNTITLED by Laurie R. King #13 in the Mary Russell series Original Publisher: Bantam First Publication: January 2015 Rights Holder: Random House US Rights Sold: UK & BC (Allison & Busby) Material Available: Manuscript expected in January 2014 With more than two million copies sold in the US, the Russell / Holmes series is one of the most successful detective series in history! It lands King in the top 20 of the New York Times bestseller list for six straight titles, with Pirate King (September 2011) debuting at her highest position ever, #7 on the list. New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King returns with a new Mary Russell novel set in Japan and Oxford.

Laurie R. King is the author of the most recent New Your Times bestseller Garment of Shadows, as well as twelve other Mary Russell mysteries (the most successful detective series in history with over two million copies sold), five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the acclaimed novels A Da$rker Place, Folly, Keeping Watch and Touchstone. She lives in Northern California. We have another Mary Russell under contract and a standalone, Career Day, which will be published in 2016. Previous Publishers Indonesian (Noura Books), Portuguese/Brazil (Novo Conceito), Russian (Atticus), Taiwanese (Nanmee Books)

Praise for A Garment of Shadows “King fashions a deeply political and emotional narrative… The language is incredibly rich but always precise, the history of this time in Morocco woven with a contemporary eye on the wheels within wheels. As always, the relationship between Holmes and Russell is utterly understated yet traced with heat and light.” ─ Booklist, starred review “Creat[es] plenty of excitement in a hazardous journey….this tantalizing glimpse into the life and times of a rapidly evolving Arabic society has remarkable resonance for our own uncertain times.” ─ Publishers Weekly, breakout review “King’s vivid prose and attention to detail draw us into Mary’s predicament, as she finds herself in Morocco… King brings the city of Fez and its environs to life with her vivid portrayal of Arabic culture. Her grasp of the tenuous, prickly relations among Great Britain, France, and warring political factions in rapidly evolving Morocco is impressive” ─ Publisher’s Weekly

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THE FIXER by T.E. Woods #1 in the Mort Grant series Original Publisher: Alibi Digital/Random House First Publication: February 2014 Rights Holder: Random house US Material Available: Manuscript (262 pages) “Pitch-perfect... solid characters, unpredictable twists and excellent plotting; a must-read for those who enjoy crime fiction.” ─ Kirkus Reviews The first in a new mystery series featuring Detective Morton Grant. An enigmatic vigilante known as The Fixer steps into the lives of the most depraved criminals and balances thwarted scales of justice. For those who employ her, she’s their last hope. For her targets, she’s an inescapable date with righteous payback. And for The Fixer, each contract she accepts is a futile effort to silence her own demons. In her latest assignment she violates every rule that has kept her safe. The Fixer is trapped into serving as personal assassin for an invisible employer who strips her of the safety she’s deluded herself existed. As she begins to mentally unravel, she knows her only hope for survival is to identify and destroy her controller. When Mort Grant, Chief of Detectives for the Seattle PD, learns the death of a prominent university faculty member wasn’t the heart attack it was designed to look like, he uncovers the dark underbelly of animal research and academic politics. His search for the killer puts him on the trail of The Fixer. Mort encounters Lydia Corriger, a talented psychologist, with a beautiful and mysterious new patient who mystifies her and tests her considerable clinical skills. Together, Mort and Lydia work to untangle a complex weave of sadistic cruelty, sexual manipulation, and limitless money that finds them fighting for their sanity and their lives.

THE RED HOT FIX by T.E. Woods #2 in the Mort Grant series Original Publisher: Alibi Digital/Random House First publication: June 2014 Rights Holder: Random House US Material Available: Manuscript (343 pages) In the last four months, seven men have been murdered in seedy pay-by-the-hour motels. Speculation abounds that the killer is a prostitute, and the press has taken to calling her “Trixie.” As Detective Mort Grant of the Seattle P.D. follows scant leads in the case, he can’t help but feel continued guilt over his involvement with the Fixer. As Trixie strikes again, Mort suddenly finds himself and his family in the crosshairs. Because these new murders are not random, and their perpetrator is hell-bent on luring Mort into a sick and twisted game. If he’s not careful, he’s going to need Fixing. Teresa E Woods is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. Her scientific writings are well represented in peer-reviewed journals and academic texts. Her literary works earned her First Place, Fiction at the 2008 University of Wisconsin Writer’s Institute. Dr. Woods enjoys kayaking, hiking, biking, and hanging around the house while her two dogs help her make sense of the world. Her habit of relaxing by conjuring up any manner of diabolical murder methods and plots often finds her friends urging her to take up knitting. 23

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THE ALPINE YEOMAN by Mary Daheim #An Emma Lord Mystery Original Publisher: Ballantine First Publication: April 2014 Rights Holder: Random House Material Available: Manuscript expected in October 2013 “Daheim amiably captures the rythms and crosscurrents of small-town life.” ─ Kirkus Reviews The penultimate installment in Mary Daheim’s beloved and long-running small-town murder mystery series featuring newspaper editor-publisher Emma Lord.

When a boby is found by the state fish hatchery, Alpine Advocate Editor & Publisher Emma Lord starts to sniff out a story. The only problem is that Sheriff – now husband – Milo Dodge can’t verify a single thing about the victim, so she has to reluctantly put the headline on hold. Luckily there’s other news brewing: there suddenly seems to be a rash of Alpine runaway teen-aged girls. Emma soon unveals a shocking link to the mysterious corpse, which sends her and Milo traveling down a dangerous road, revealing the dark secret of Alpine’s very own.

Mary Daheim is distinguished by more than twenty-five published novels. She is a member of the Authors Guild and Mystery Writers of America. In 2000, she won the Literary Achievement Award from the Paciic Northwest Writers Associations.

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MAGGIE HOPE MYSTERIES by Susan Elia MacNeal Original Publisher: Bantam First Publication: April 2012 (book 1), October 2012 (book 2), May 2013 (book 3), June 2014 (book 4) Rights Holder: Random House Rights Sold: Czech (Albatros), Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha), UK/BC (Constable&Robinson), Chinese (Chongqing Green Culture) Material Available: Manuscript (book 1: 389 pages; book 2: 374 pages; book 3: 368 pages), book 4: manuscript expected in October 2013 “You’ll be [Maggie Hope’s] loyal subject, ready to follow her wherever she goes.” ─ O: The Oprah Magazine It’s London in 1940 and Maggie Hope was planning to visit only long enough to sell her grandmother's leaky Victorian house. When England declares war on Germany and Churchill rises to power, she decides to stay, wanting to do her part for her adopted homeland. In the first volume, Maggie becomes the Prime Minister’s secretary, and a murder has happened on her doorstep, the sirens herald ravaging Luftwaffe bombings every night, and spies are everywhere, even at the top levels of British government, and one has ensnared Maggie in a plot that could bring England to its knees. In England's darkest hours, Maggie Hope is a plucky, patriotic, code-breaking secret weapon, but Maggie is a pawn in a game far larger and more deadly than a girl from Boston could ever anticipate. Luckily she has her friends, and she has her wits, and she'll need both to be at the top of their game to survive the war. Thanks to the success of the first novel, Maggie comes back in three other novels following the plot of the first one. She becomes an undercover spy at Windsor Castle to protect the royal family (volume 2), she is then sent to Berlin to infiltrate, gain trust, and ultimately destroy a major of the German war machine (volume 3). In the fourth volume, Maggie has returned from her undercover mission in Berlin with scars not just on her body but on her soul. Instead of going on another Special Operations assignment in war-torn Europe, she returns to one of her old spy training camps in western Scotland, this time as a teacher. But instead of the tedium Maggie is expecting, she's drawn against her will into another web of danger, this time involving a terrifying biological weapon secretly developed and stockpiled by Churchill for the anticipated Nazi invasion. Maggie's failure to solve a series of deadly poisonings could endanger the lives of the entire British civilian population -- but what will be the cost of success?

Susan Elia MacNeal lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and child. We have two more Maggie Hope mysteries. Mr Churchill’s Secretary was nominated for the 2013 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, for the 2013 Dilys Award for “the mystery title of the year that booksellers have most enjoyed hand-selling”, and for the 2013 Macavity Award for Best Mystery First Novel.

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THE FLAVIA DE LUCE SERIES by Alan Bradley Rights Holder: The Bukowski Agency

**Soon to be a TV series from acclaimed director Sam Mendes **Over a million copies of the Flavia De Luce Series sold worldwide Picture an ancient country house somewhere in England. The year is 1950. Picture a girl who lives there with her most unusual family. Her name is Flavia de Luce—and she’s almost eleven. Picture a longabandoned Victorian chemistry laboratory; no one ever goes there but Flavia. Put them all together and you’ll have a new kind of detective fiction... The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Book 1) Original Publisher: Bantam First Publication: 2009 French Publisher: Editions du Masque/JC Lattes, 2010 (Les étranges talents de Flavia de Luce) Material Available: Manuscript (385 pages), Book

The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag (Book 2) Original Publisher: Bantam First Publication: 2010 French Publisher: Editions du Masque/JC Lattes, 2011 (La mort n’est pas un jeu d’enfant) Material Available: Manuscript (400 pages), Book

A Red Herring Without Mustard (Book 3) Original Publisher: Doubleday Canada First Publication: 2011 French Publisher: Editions du Masque/JC Lattes, 2012 (La mort dans une boule de cristal) Material Available: Manuscript (416 pages), Book

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Book 4) Original Publisher: Delacorte First Publication: 2011 Material Available: Manuscript (320 pages), Book

Speaking From Among the Bones (Book 5) Original Publisher: Delacorte First Publication: January 2013 Material Available: Manuscript (400 pages), Book

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Book 6) Original Publisher: Delacorte First Publication: Early 2014 Material available: Manuscript (336 pages)

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Mystery Previous Publishers for the Flavia de Luce series Albanian (Morava Publishing House), Arabic language (Arab Scientific Publishers), Canada (Doubleday), Catalan-language (Columna Edicions), Chinese/Complex (Azoth), Chinese/Simplified (Beijing Hongwenguan Publishing & Planning Co. Ltd.), Croatian (Naklada Ljevak), Czech (Euromedia Group),Danish (Forlaget Punktum), Dutch (Luitingh-Sijthoff), Estonian (Tiritamm), Finnich (Bazar Publishers), French (JC Lattès), German (Blanvalet/Random House), Greek (Lyhnar Publishing House), Hebrew (Matar Publishing House), Hungarian (Maxim), Icelandic (Forlagid), Italian (Mondadori & Sellerio), Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha), Korean (Munhakdongne Publishing), Lithuanian (Vaga), N. America English-language audio (Random House Audio US), Norwegian (Forlaget Press), Polish (Vesper), Portuguese/Brazil (Editora Saraiva), Portuguese/Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito), Romanian-language (Editura Trei), Russian (AST Publishing Group), Serbian (Marso Publishing House), Slovak-language (Ikar), Spanish (Editorial Planeta), Swedish (Lind & Co), Turkish (Domingo Publishing), UK (Orion Books), UK audio (Magna), US (Bantam Books), US large print (Thorndike Press), Vietnamese (Alphabooks)

Praise for the Flavia de Luce series “Bradley's outstanding Flavia de Luce mystery… a marvelous blend of whimsy and mystery…” ─ Publishers Weekly, starred review “[An] excellent reminder that crime fiction can sparkle with wit, crackle with spirit and verge on the surreal… the reader will be heartened by some new developments in [Flavia’s] emotional growth, with a surprising but pleasing twist ending that adds a number of new narrative layers for forthcoming volumes.” ─ The Ottawa Citizen “Bradley is firing on all burners with this one… With twists aplenty, right up to the last line, I am champing at the bit for the sixth instalment. Write quickly, Mr. Bradley.” ─ Montreal Gazette “Irrepressible… The Flavia bandwagon rolls on: Not only will she star in five more novels, but she’ll also shine in several made-for-television films.” ─ Kirkus Reviews “Bradley’s Flavia cozies, set in the English countryside, have been a hit from the start, and this fifth in the series continues to charm and entertain, as Flavia—so intellectually mature yet socially unschooled—takes advantage of being able to go about unnoticed because of her youth. A final cliffhanger guarantees interest in the next installment.” ─ Booklist "Determined sleuth Flavia is the bright centre of both books, with a voice so engaging and amusing that it's easy to overlook her unlikely depth and breadth of knowledge." ─ The Globe and Mail "Flavia is a strikingly enjoyable heroine... The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag offers a surfeit of pleasures, an old-fashioned puzzler of red herrings, left turns and sharp twists. It should easily please Bradley's fans, and newcomers will find themselves happily falling for Flavia's exploits." ─ Winnipeg Free Press “Wonderfully entertaining… sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year.” ─ Chicago Sun Times 27

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THE VISH PURI MYSTERY SERIES by Tarquin Hall Rights Holder: Fletcher & Company

The Case of the Missing Servant (Book 1) Original Publisher: McClelland & Stewart First Publication: May 2009 French Publisher: 10-18, 2009 (L’homme qui exauce les vœux) Material Available: Manuscript, Book

The Case of the Man who Died Laughing (Book 2) Original Publisher: Simon & Schuster First Publication: June 2010 French Publisher: 10-18, 2010 (Le chasseur de gourous) Material Available:

The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken (Book 3) Original Publisher: Simon & Schuster First Publication: July 2012 Material Available: Manuscript (437 pages)

The Case of the Love Commandos (Book 4) Original Publisher: Simon & Schuster First Publication: October 2013 Material Available: Translatable manuscript (320 pages) Tarquin Hall has lived and worked throughout South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In addition to the Vish Puri mystery novels, he has written dozens of articles and three works of nonfiction. He and his wife, journalist Anu Anand, divide their time between London and Delhi. Previous Publishers Canada (McClelland & Stewart), Finnish (Gummerus), French (10-18/Univers Poche), German (Heyne), Italian (Mondadori), Portuguese/Brazil (Record), Spanish (Roca), Swedish (Forum), UK (Hutchinson), US (Simon & Schuster)

Praise for Tarquin Hall’s Vish Puri mysteries “These books are little gems. They are beautifully written, amusing, and intensely readable.” ─ Alexander McCall Smith “India, captured in all its pungent, vivid glory, fascinates almost as much as the crime itself.” ─ Entertainment Weekly “Hall writes amusing mysteries… his affectionate humor is embedded with barbs.” ─ Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

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THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Richard Zimler Original Publisher: Constable & Robinson First Publication: July 2013 Rights Holder: Cynthia Cannell Material Available: Manuscript (466 pages) “Zimler [is] a present-day scholar and writer of remarkable erudition and compelling imagination, an American Umberto Eco.” – The London Spectator "A moody, tightly constructed historical thriller that is both entertaining and instructive." – The New York Times on The Seventh Gate

From international bestselling author Richard Zimler comes a new psychological thriller: The Night Watchman.

Detective Henrique Monroe of the Lisbon Police Department is not your usual cop. Eccentric, elliptical— and stunningly observant—his peculiar behavior at crime scenes is legendary. His colleagues put up with it because Monroe is undeniably the best of the best. But he harbors a secret; a victim of childhood abuse, he suffers from multiple personality disorder. And when he’s called to investigate the brutal slaying of a wellconnected Portuguese businessman, it’s not just the murder case that unravels. As Monroe delves into a torrid world of political corruption and sexual violence, the details of the case trigger memories he has traveled far, and worked hard, to hide. When Monroe’s behavior becomes ever more upsetting and inappropriate than usual, even his family starts to fear for the man they thought they knew. The Night Watchman is a uniquely moving feat of storytelling that reveals the damaging repercussions of abuse, and offers a startling look at the underbelly of Zimler’s adopted home.

Richard Zimler was born in New York and has lived in Portugal for the past 30 years. His award-winning novels, starting with The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, have been bestsellers in a dozen countries. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

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THE GOOD LIFE by Frank Wheeler Original Publisher: New Pulp Press First Publication: November 2013 Rights Holder: Donald Maass Literary Agency Material Available: Manuscript (279 pages) “The Wowser is killer blues guitar meets Jim Thompson in the drug-haunts of the Deep South. Think John Lee Hooker in concert, with Sonny Boy Williamson screaming on harmonica. Have your pistol handy as you read, it’s that badass. Frank Wheeler is ‘Bad Like Jesse James’ and The Wowser is pure Arkansas whitelightning.” ─ Scott Wolven, author of the critically acclaimed Controlled Burn, about The Wowzer “Frank Wheeler is a bright new talent in the farmhouse. I can’t wait to see what he cooks up next.” ─ Sean Doolittle, author of Safer, about The Wowzer Earl Haack, Jr. was raised to be Machiavelli in cowboy boots. Growing up with his father’s brutal brand of peacemaking as sheriff of a small town on a major drug corridor, Junior swore there had to be a better way to keep the order his father taught him must come first — before peace, before prosperity. But as a young narcotics deputy in Denver, he quickly learned that the drug trade that threatens that order is never going to end. A man charged with policing it can either give up or learn to control the chaos around him — working with those who will cooperate, driving off those who will not — and profit in the process. Junior’s father was right: order comes first, and order is built on bloodshed. Now Junior’s father is dying and Junior has come home to take on his father’s role of sheriff and town protector. All he has to do is eliminate a drug kingpin the city fathers don’t want associated with their real estate investments, prop up his own puppet successor in the drug lord’s place, and manage his dissolute halfbrother’s betraying impulses — while taking out anyone who might oppose his plan. Then his family will be free to live the good life, ruling their own small but wealthy fiefdom in rural Nebraska. There’s only one problem: Camila. Sexy, calculating, teasing, treacherous — Camila is Junior’s greatest addiction, his greatest weakness, and his wife. And she wants to reconcile after nearly destroying him. Junior knows losing Camila again will kill him. He knows seeing Camila again might make him kill her. And he knows he is near-powerless to resist her pull. Can Junior fill his father’s boots? Can he quell the factions that would unseat him even from within his own ranks? Can he put his own house in order? Can he provide the good life?

Frank Wheeler Jr is an English teacher, fiction writer, reviewer, and author of The Wowzer, from Thomas & Mercer, May 2012. He lives with his wife on the plains of Nebraska in a small town surrounded by corn and cows.

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WRAPPED IN WHITE by Kevin Brooks Original Publisher: Arrow/ Random House First Publication: April 2013 Rights Holder: Furniss Lawton Rights Sold: German (Deutscher Taschenbuch) Material Available: Manuscript (448 pages) “Unputdownable and riveting.” ─ Mo Hayder “Gripping, disturbing... brilliant.” ─ Sunday Express “Kevin Brooks just gets better and better.” ─ Guardian The third installment of Kevin Brooks’ adult crime series. Following on from A Dance Of Ghosts and Until The Darkness Comes, Wrapped In White is the latest PI John Craine book, and his most personal and frightening case yet.

PI John Craine is trying to get on with his life but when he is hired to investigate the brutal murder of a Somali youth called Jamaal Tan. The police are treating the murder as just another gang-related crime, but Tan's aunt believes there's more to it than that, and she claims the police are trying to cover up her nephew's death. John Craine soon realises that once again everything connects back to DI Bishop, a bent cop that he has had many dealings with. While investigating the case, Craine learns of the sudden death of his friend and mentor Leon Mercer. At first it appears to be a tragic accident, but it soon becomes clear, however, that everything he ever believed is false as Craine finds himself entangled in two deeply suspicious investigations. And before long he comes face to face with a man he hoped never to see again. Can Craine overcome his own demons in order to do what needs to be done to finally lay the past to rest?

Kevin Brooks books are published worldwide and he's won numerous awards for is writing, including the German Youth Literature Award (twice), the Branford Boase Award, the Canongate Prize for New Writing, the North East Book Award, the Angus Award (twice), and the Buxtehude Bulle. He also writes children books (Being, Black Rabbit Summer, Killing God, Iboy and Naked). He lives in North Yorkshire with his wife.

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NEVER LOOK A POLICEMAN IN THE EYE by Jason Webster #4 in the Max Cámara series Original Publisher: Chatto & Windus First Publication: June 2014 Rights Holder: Random House UK Material Available: Manuscript expected in December 2013

The latest instalment in the acclaimed, hot-blooded Max Cámara crime series.

The next in Jason's Max Cámara crime series involves a massive exposé of government corruption in Valencia. Cámara's beloved grandfather Hilario has had a relapse after the stroke he suffered in The Anarchist Detective. Spending time in and around the hospital, Cámara eventually uncovers an elaborate plot involving large-scale corruption that implicates the hospital and the health service. When Hilario dies, Cámara must come to terms with everything he has learned and inherited from his grandfather, and break free of old ways.

Brought up in England, Jason Webster lived for several years in Valencia, the setting of his Cámara novels. His acclaimed non-fiction books about Spain include Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco and Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain. His first Cámara crime novel, Or the Bull Kills You, was longlisted for the CWA Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards New Blood Dagger and was followed by the equally acclaimed A Death in Valencia and The Anarchist Detective.

Praise for The Anarchist Detective “If you’re tiring of the frigid climate of Scandinavian crime fiction, a welcome antidote may be found in Jason Webster’s sultry (and elegantly written) Max Cáma-ra series set in Spain.” ─ Financial Times “A superbly balanced novel, it conveys a wonderful sense of Spain... [Webster] does for the country what Michael Dibdin did for Italy ─ pure joy from first page to last.” ─ Daily Mail

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THE SCHISM by Robert Dickinson Original Publisher: Myriad Editions First Publication: March 2013 Rights Holder: Adrian Weston Material Available: Manuscript (312 pages) “In a novel about fraud, delusion and concealment, Dickinson diligently lays out clues and false trails… it's enjoyably tricky to puzzle out… The Schism is one of those strange novels that isn't really about what it's about. Don't pick it up if you fancy a racy tale of the occult à la Dan Brown. This is an altogether subtler, and more unnerving affair.” ─ The Independent

Sharp, compassionate and darkly comic, this gripping literary thriller shows what happens when the lives of those you care about are suddenly, terrifyingly, at risk.

Patrick Farrell's life is complex, but under control. His work takes him through the streets of South London, repossessing credit cards and searching for missing debtors. In the evenings he visits his schizophrenic brother Mike, who stares out of his hospital window, convinced that he's being watched. But when Patrick's girlfriend introduces him to a new crowd with a strange interest in astrology and the occult, his world is thrown dramatically out of kilter. The Schism is a dark and brilliant foray into a violent hinterland where mental illness and religious fervour meet. It brings together schizophrenia, boxing, debt collection, astrology and the occult to tell a powerful story of brotherly love, showing what happens when the lives of those you care about are suddenly, terrifyingly, at risk. The Schism taps into the zeitgeist around cults and religion in contemporary fiction and should appeal to fans of Iain Banks, Alex Preston and Chuck Palahniuk.

Robert Dickinson is the author of The Noise of Strangers, published by Myriad in 2010, and two acclaimed volumes of poetry, Micrographia (shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize) and Szyzygy (with Andrew Dilger), and the comedy drama, Murder's Last Case. He also wrote the libretto for Joby Talbot's choral work Path of Miracles. He lives in Brighton.

Praise for The Schism “Written with humour, intelligence and compassion The Schism is a novel about one brother’s love for the other and how they've been split apart by circumstances that are out of their control. Dickinson’s second novel is by turns darkly comical, terrifying and poignant as it tackles the impact of mental health issues on the family [...] I really enjoyed this novel, I found myself laughing out loud many times due to the well written sections of observational comedy. I was also profoundly moved, especially by the poignancy of the final paragraph.” ─ Pamreader

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THE LAST ALIBI by David Ellis Original Publisher: Putnam First Publication: August 2013 Rights Holder: Einstein Thompson Material Available: Manuscript (528 pages) “A complex courtroom thriller filled with tension and twists… Ellis ranks among the best writers in the genre, and this book will keep readers entertained from start to finish.” ─ Kirkus (starred review) Defense attorney Jason Kolarich is back in another edge-of-your-seat thriller... and this time he may find himself in over his head, in more ways than one. James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny-looking, geeky loner, he walks into Jason Kolarich’s office one day with a preemptive concern: two women have recently been murdered, seemingly by the same killer, and Drinker thinks he will be the police’s main suspect. One woman was his ex-girlfriend, he says, and the other was a friend. He’s the only link between the victims and he has no alibi for the night of either murder—surely the police will realize it soon. Believing he’s the target of a frame-up, Drinker hires Kolarich for his defense. Something about James Drinker seems off from the start, but Kolarich doesn’t give it too much thought. Until another murder occurs. And then another. And as he begins to probe his client’s life and story more closely, it quickly becomes clear that nothing about James Drinker is what it seems... and that the target of the frame-up isn’t Drinker, but Kolarich. Unable to stop a serial killer—and prove his own innocence—without breaking his sworn attorney-client privilege, Jason Kolarich must hunt for the truth about James Drinker, the series of brutal murders, and why he’s been set up to take the fall. The answers will be beyond anything he could have imagined.

David Ellis is an attorney from Chicago who has worked in both the public and private sector since his graduation from Northwestern Law School. He currently serves as Counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Line of Vision, his first novel, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author.

Praise for The Last Alibi “Bestseller Ellis conceals and reveals information like a skilled poker player… the plot twists keep readers guessing throughout.” ─ Publishers Weekly “Ellis’ plotting is playful yet airtight and infused with enough warped psychology to provide lip-chewing thrills. This fourth Jason Kolarich novel is an excellent choice for readers who seek connections with powerful characters.” ─ Booklist

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CICADA by Moira McKinnon Original Publisher: Allen & Unwin First Publication: Mid 2014 Rights Holder: The Naher Agency Material Available: Manuscript imminent

Cicada is both love story and tale of bloody murder, set against the dazzling backdrop of the Kimberley Ranges in Western Australia. After the First World War, the colonists in Australia reached further into land that had previously only been inhabited by the Aboriginal people. A white settler woman and her Aboriginal maid are hunted across the Kimberley. One is running from a murderer and the other is accused of murder. Cicada is something of a Thelma and Louise of the Australian outback. Written in close consultation with the Gidja people of the Halls Creek and Warmun area of the Kimberley, their legends and language are integral to the story.

Moira McKinnon graduated in medicine from the University of Western Australia and travelled widely as a specialist in population health and infectious diseases. Her particular interests are emerging infectious diseases and the relationship with global and environmental health. She sees the connection between indigenous societies and global health as poorly understood and possibly containing a knowledge or a ‘knowing’ that is essential to the health of the earth and mankind. Her upcoming book, Cicada, a fictional account of survival in the Australian outback, is a fast paced story of the hunter and the hunted and yet its basis is to explore the relationship of humankind to nature. Her essay ‘Who Killed Matilda?’ published by the Australian Book Review (July 2011) was written during the research for Cicada and also examines the themes of nature, belief and survival.

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SINISTER INTENT by Karen M. Davis #1 in the Detective Lexie Rogers series Original Publisher: Simon & Schuster First Publication: August 2013 Rights Holder: The Plot Lounge Material Available: Manuscript imminent “I really enjoyed Sinister Intent, I read it almost straight through and was reluctant to put it down.” ─ Book’d Out “A great romantic crime debut by Australian author Karen M. Davis, an author I’ll definitely have on my radar for new releases.” ─ Overall Rating 5/5 australianbookshelf.wordpress.com For eight years Lexie Rogers has been a uniform cop in Sydney’s red light district, Kings Cross. Having survived a violent knife attack, she’s witnessed far more than most cops her age. Now she’s back at work as the newest member of the Bondi Junction detectives’ office and ready to start again. One of her first jobs is to execute a search warrant at a bikie clubhouse, one of the two local gangs in the eastern suburbs. What she uncovers begins a chilling investigation into a vicious world where loyalty is deadly and unwavering and can’t be bought… Or can it? Lexie forms an unlikely alliance with one of the bikies, who’s realised his family’s in danger. But what neither of them knows is that Lexie is the one who’s in too deep. She knows too much. And as the stakes get personal, it seems the secret bond she has with a big bad bikie could be the one thing that’ll save her life.

Karen M. Davis is a former police officer. During her twenty-year career, she worked as a uniform officer, a detective and an undercover operative. Leaving the police force six years ago, Karen was encouraged by her mother – author of twelve novels, the late Lynne Wilding – to draw on her experiences and put pen to paper. Sinister Intent, featuring Detective Lexie Rogers, is her debut novel. She is currently working on the sequel.

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DEATH BY BEAUTY by Gabrielle Lord #5 in the Gemma Lincoln series Original Publisher: Hachette Australia First Publication: September 2012 Rights Holder: Hachette Australia Rights Sold: Italian (Leone Editore) Material Available: Book “Harrowing… and irresistibly readable.” – Jeffery Deaver “Gabrielle Lord’s new thriller takes the knife to a society obsessed with looks.” ─ Sun Herald

How far would you go to look young and beautiful? A young woman is attacked, she claims, by a ‘vampire’. Two more are found dead and hideously disfigured. A journalist goes missing after visiting Sapphire Springs Spa. And it is up to Gemma Lincoln, PI, to find out what is going on. In her first week back on the job after maternity leave, finding a balance between investigating brutal crimes, caring for baby Rafi and making time for herself and Mike is all too much. Something has to give, but not while a third woman’s life is in danger. As she moves closer to tying the crimes together, Rafi disappears. Facing a mother’s worst nightmare, Gemma discovers what she is prepared to do to save her son.

Gabrielle Lord's first novel Fortress was translated into six languages and made into a successful film. Since then she has published a great number of best-sellers, including Lethal Factor, Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing, Death Delights, Feeding The Demons, The Sharp End, Whipping Boy, Tooth And Claw and Jumbo. She has adapted several of her novels for the screen. Death Delights won the 2002 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, and Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing was joint-winner in the 2003 Davitt Award for crime writing and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel 2003.

Praise for the Gemma Lincoln series “Narrator Carolyn Lee, a native Australian, brings life to the local Sydney scene with a flawless interpretation of the likable private detective. A good one to savor over a bit of Vegemite on toast.” ─ AudioFile

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HAVANA REQUIEM by Paul Goldstein A Legal Thriller Original Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux First Publication: May 2012 Rights Holder: Strothman Agency Material Available: Manuscript (367 pages) “I love this book. Fascinating, Byzantine, and completely unpredictable, Havana Requiem puts Paul Goldstein squarely in the first rank of not only legal thriller writers but all thriller writers. The portrait of post-Fidel Cuba and the sweltering inequities of Havana is unforgettable.” — Timothy Hallinan, author of The Queen of Patpong In the tradition of Scott Turow, a smart legal thriller set on the fault lines between the US and Cuba. Fueled by alcohol and legal brilliance, Michael Seeley once oversaw his law firm’s most successful litigation. Until it all fell apart. Recklessness and overreach cost him his wife, his job, and likely the life of his last client, a Chinese dissident journalist. Havana Requiem, the latest Seeley novel from the acclaimed author Paul Goldstein, opens after a year’s sobriety has earned him back most of what he lost: the partnership in his Manhattan law firm, if not his corner office; the wary respect of most of his partners; the lucrative clients—but not the gin-sharpened passion. Then the renowned Cuban musician Héctor Reynoso enters his office with a simple request: help him and other composers who defined Cuba’s musical golden age of the 1940s and 1950s—the music that made the Buena Vista Social Club internationally famous—reclaim the copyright to their work. When Reynoso goes missing, Seeley’s reluctant promise to help draws him progressively deeper into Havana’s violent underbelly and a decades-long conspiracy that runs from the partners in his firm to the U.S. State Department to Cuba’s security police, who are willing to do anything to suppress the truth. And in the heat of Havana, Seeley will lose himself to his worst and best passions as his pursuit of justice becomes a desperate gambit to save not only his composers but the stunning Amaryll, who is playing her own dangerous game.

Paul Goldstein is a writer, lawyer and the Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and is widely recognized as one of the country's leading authorities on intellectual property law. He is the author of three novels on intellectual property themes, Errors and Omissions, A Patent Lie and Havana Requiem. He is also the author of two general interest non-fiction books, Copyright’s Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox and the recentlypublished Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities That Could Make or Break Your Business. Mr. Goldstein has written two leading treatises on copyright law – the four-volume Goldstein on Copyright and the one-volume International Copyright: Principles, Law and Practic – as well as four widely-adopted law school textbooks.

Praise for Paul Goldstein “Goldstein displays the keen eye and sure hand of a gifted writer… memorable” ─ Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal, on Errors and Ommissions 38

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FRACTURED by Dawn Barker Original Publisher: Hachette Australia First Publication: February 2013 Rights Holder: Hachette Australia Material Available: Manuscript (352 pages) "Fractured is an extraordinary exploration of mental illness and grief told with great confidence and compassion." ─ Kylie Mason, Newtown Review of Books

A powerful and thought-provoking debut novel for readers of Jodi Picoult and Caroline Overington. Tony is worried. His wife, Anna, isn’t coping with their newborn. Anna had wanted a child so badly and, when Jack was born, they were both so happy. They’d come home from the hospital a family. Was it really only six weeks ago? But Anna hasn’t been herself since. One moment she’s crying, the next she seems almost too positive. It must be normal with a baby, he thought, she’s just adjusting. He was busy at work. It would sort itself out. But now Anna and Jack are missing. And he realises that something is really wrong… Fractured is an unforgettable novel that brings to life a new mother’s worst fears. It is a sensible work of fiction, as devastatingly close to real life as fiction can be.

Dr Dawn Barker is a Child Psychiatrist who works with families affected by mental illness. She grew up in Scotland, and studied Medicine at Aberdeen University. In 2001 she moved to Australia, completed her psychiatric training and began writing. She has published nonfiction articles on parenting and child psychology for various websites and magazines. Dawn began writing Fractured in 2009 while living in Brisbane shortly after the birth of her first baby. In 2010, the novel was selected for the Hachette/Queensland Writers Centre’s manuscript development program.

Praise for Fractured "A thought-provoking, saddening, tough piece of fiction from a debut writer who has a firm grip on her subject and compassion in her heart." ─ Meredith Jaffe, The Hoopla "A stunning debut." ─ Tasmanian Times "It flickers through a nightmarish scenario with considerable sensitivity; her medical expertise throws light on a subject that, due to cultural assumptions, can be difficult to understand." ─ Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age/The Canberra Times "Barker has a phenomenal talent for getting inside the minds of her characters." ─ The West Australian "Moving at a cracking pace, Fractured is part psychological thriller, part family drama. This novel will be a great book club read." ─ Bookseller & Publisher 39

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ACCUSATION by Catherine Bush Original Publisher: Goose Lane Editions First Publication: Fall 2013 Rights Holder: Transatlantic Agency Material Available: Manuscript (368 pages) “Catherine Bush's Accusation is a novel of great global and emotional scope.” — David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World "At the heart of Accusation — and the source of its suspense — is the desire to see justice done in a situation where truth is elusive. The power of this novel is that it brings a quiet dignity and compassion to precisely this state of moral helplessness. This is a moving and ambitious book." — Anne Michaels, author of The Winter Vault

While in Copenhagen, Sara Wheeler, a Toronto journalist once he victim of false accusation, happens upon Cirkus Mirak, a touring Ethiopian children’s circus. She later meets and is convinced to drive the circus founder, Raymond Renaud, through the night from Toronto to Montreal. After a friend of Sara’s begins work on a documentary about the circus, unsettling charges begin to float to the surface, disturbing tales of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of Raymond. Accounts and anecdotes mount, denunciations fly, and while Sara strives to untangle the narrative knots and determine what to believe, the concept of a singular “truth” becomes slippery. Her present search is simultaneously haunted by her past. Moving between Canada, Ethiopia, and Australia, Accusation follows a network of lives that intersect with life-altering consequence, painfully revealing that the best of intentions can still lead to disaster. Yet from disaster spring seeds of renewal and hope.

Catherine Bush was born in Toronto and studied at Yale University. She has been Writer-in-Residence at several universities. She is currently on the faculty of UBC’s low-residency Creative Writing MFA, an adjunct professor in U of T’s Creative Writing MA, and director of the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Guelph. Her nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications including the Globe and Mail and The New York Times Magazine. Her first novel, Minus Time was shortlisted for the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. Her second novel, The Rules of Engagement was also shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award, it was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by the LA Times and the Globe and Mail. It has been optioned for film by producer Julia Keatley. And her third novel, Claire's Head was shortlisted for the Trillium Award, and was also chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.

Praise for Accusation “Utterly compelling and readable, Accusation presents the reader with a disturbing mystery, and one journalist’s need to find the truth despite all the suspicion and conflicting hints. Along the way Catherine Bush draws us inexorably into a world marked by secrets, complicity, the unknown, and ultimately hope. A remarkably shrewd exploration of the agony of doubt.” — Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander

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HUSH LITTLE BABY by Suzanne Redfearn Original Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (at auction) First Publication: October 2014 Rights Holder: The Nicholas Ellison Agency Rights Sold: Czech (Euromedia Group), Hungarian (Század), Slovakian (Ikar), Slovenian (Ucila) Material Available: Manuscript (368 pages), Galleys “This snappily paced, cinematic novel about the dysfunctional modern American family... hurtle[s] along with great urgency to a rousing climax. A smart, suspenseful debut.” ─ Publisher's Weekly

A mother desperately fights to rescue her children from her abusive husband in this powerful debut novel.

Jillian Kane has led a charmed life. She is a successful architect who has made a beautiful suburban home— and life—for her family. She’s married to a police officer; someone who lives with violence and danger every day. Both Jillian and Gordon strive to keep their eight-year-old son Drew and four year-old daughter Addie protected from the harsh realities of their father’s job and the outside world. But inside their family, a more direct, immediate danger lurks. Jillian has kept her husband’s physical and mental abuse secret in order to keep her family together. But when Gordon attempts to separate her from her children, Jillian no longer has anything to lose. Willing to take desperate measures to protect them, she soon realizes that it will take brains to beat brawn in a face-off that she has been avoiding for years. Hush Little Baby deftly explores how desperation drives the darker impulses of human nature, even within the hearts of those who appear to have it all.

Suzanne Redfearn lives in Laguna Beach, California.

Advance Praise for Suzanne Redfearn's Hush Little Baby "Using beautifully nuanced prose and taut pacing, Redfearn skillfully weaves a gripping tale about the dark side of suburbia. Where appearances rule, perception is everything, and the lines between good and evil are often blurred. This is top-notch storytelling!" ─ Alyson Noël, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Immortals series "Chillingly realistic and pulsating with suspense, this deftly told story will leave you breathless." ─ Heather Gudenkauf, NYT Best-Selling Author of The Weight of Silence "Beware! Redfearn's high-stakes story will grab you and not let go. This psychologically astute, swiftly paced novel is about a woman forced to rely on herself when what seems secure turns treacherous. It raises disturbing questions about the power one human can have over another. And it will leave you wondering ‘what if’ even after the last page is turned." ─ Christina Schwarz, New York Times bestselling author of The Edge of the Earth 41

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EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng Original Publisher: Penguin Press First Publication: May 2014 Rights Holder: Barer Literary Material Available: Manuscript (258 pages) “I couldn’t stop reading Everything I Never Told You… the writing is so smooth and keenly-observed. The portrait of each member of the Lee family, the exploration of their mixed-race issues and the search for the killer of their sister and daughter, Lydia, pulled at my eartstrings to the very end.” ─ Uwem Akpan, author of Say You’re One of Them Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet… When the body of sixteen year old Lydia Lee is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. James Lee, a father consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage; Marilyn, the devastated and vengeful mother, is determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the cost. Lydia’s older brother Nathan is certain that the neighborhood bad-boy Jack is somehow involved. But it’s the youngest of the family- Hannah- who observes far more than anyone realizes, and who may be the only one who knows the truth about what happened. Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and also within a family; the distances between parents and their children, and the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand each other. Celeste Ng’s writing has appeared in such publications as One Story, TriQuarterly, Subtropics, The Kenyon Review Online, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the Bellevue Literary Review, among others. She has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, the Hopwood Award, and a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and her work has been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXXVI (2012): Best of the Small Presses and other anthologies. She earned her A.B. in English from Harvard University and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Celeste has taught writing at the University of Michigan and Grub Street in Boston; she is also editor-at-large for the writing website Fiction Writers Review and a blogger for the Huffington Post. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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