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THE KILLING

David Hewson

Novelised from the scripts of the original BAFTA award-winning Danish TV series, The Killing is powerful, gripping and utterly compelling. And Sarah Lund is the detective crime fiction has been waiting for.

Macmillan, May 2012

Rights sold
Brazil: Record
Danish: Lindhardt & Ringhof
Dutch: De Boekerij
French: J’ai lu

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THE PLAYDATE

Louise Millar

You leave your child with a friend.  Everyone does it.  Until the day it goes wrong.

 'I started reading and couldn't stop... tautly written, with lashings of atmosphere and menace - a must-read that will tap into every mother's primal fears.'  Sophie Hannah

Pan, April 2012

Rights sold
US: Atria / S&S
Brazil: Novo Conceito
Chinese (simple):  Beijing HepingYahua
Dutch: De Kern
French: Presses de la Cite
German: Kruger
Spanish: Ediciones B
 

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THE LOST LIBRARY

A.M. Dean

For almost two millennia, historians have been captivated by the great Library of Alexandria’s destruction. But what if it was never destroyed?

A gripping global conspiracy thriller announcing the arrival of a major new talent.

Pan, September 2012

Rights sold
Brazil: Prumo
Czech:  Euromedia
Danish:  Punktum
Dutch: De Fontein
German: Lubbe
Greek:  Klidarithmos
Italian: Nord
Russia: AST
Serbian: Alnari
Slovakian:  Ikar
Spanish:  Suma
Turkish:  Arti Dagitim & Pozitif

THE LAST TOMORROW

Ryan David Jahn

‘Jahn is the fastest rising star in the ever-competitive crime fiction world …He is more a poet than a disciple of the hard-boiled, giving us one brutally swift, ultra-smart line after another. The characters live and breathe in all their wickedness, helplessness or determination. And then there are the plots…talk about page-turning.’ Daily Mirror

Macmillan, July 2012

Option Publishers
US: Penguin
China (complex): Spring
China (simple): Yilin Press
Denmark: H.R. Ferdinand
France: Actes Sud
Germany: Heyne,
Iceland: Bjartur Verold,
Italy: Fanucci,
Japan: Shinchosha,
Netherlands: De Fontein
Norway: Schibsted
Spain: Circulo de Lectores/RBA

Author website:  www.ryandavidjahn.com

TIME'S ECHO

Pamela Hartshorne

Sometimes the past just won't let go.

Grace Trewe prides herself on her independence and rational mind. But when she arrives in York to settle the affairs of her godmother Lucy, who has been found drowned in the river Ouse, she is plagued by strange, unexplainable experiences.

Time's Echo is a novel of superb power that will appeal to all those entranced by the works of Barbara Erskine and Kate Mosse.

Pan, August 2012

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WHEN NIGHTS WERE COLD

Susanna Jones

From the award-winning Susanna Jones comes a haunting tale of ambition and rivalry, dark tragedy and scandal.  As chilling as it is delicate, When Nights Were Cold is reminiscent of the very best writing by Barbara Vine and Sarah Waters, and will be a contender for all the major prizes this year.

Mantle, March 2012

Rights sold
Dutch: Cargo

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THE FORBIDDEN

Frank Tallis

Superstition. Posession. Hell on Earth...

International bestselling author Frank Tallis delivers a terrifying gothic masterpiece

'Tallis has an exceptional ability to move seamlessly among varied plot elements, characters and emotions .. If you're looking for the best in popular fiction, [he's] well worth seeking out.'  The Washington Post

Macmillan, June 2012

Rights sold
Czech:  Baronet
French: J'ai Lu
German: BTB
Spanish:  Espasa


Author website:  www.franktallis.com

THE HELPER

David Jackson

‘Recalls Harlan Coben – though for my money Jackson is the better writer’  The Guardian

A grisly murder in a shabby New York bookstore seems to hold a special significance for Detective Callum Doyle: the victim’s been marked with a message that could have been left specially for him. But why?

Furiously fast-paced, totally unpredictable and unforgettable, this is a masterpiece from the acclaimed author of Pariah.

Macmillan, March 2012

Rights sold
German:  Rowohlt

Author website:  www.davidjacksonbooks.com

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LAST DAYS

Adam Nevill

‘Adam Nevill shows it’s possible to take a tried-and-tested horror cliché – the Blair Witch-esque group of friends lost in the woods - and make it horrifyingly scary again… Often horror loses its power when evil is given a face; in this case, it only gets more disturbing.’  The Sunday Times (on The Ritual)

‘This novel [The Ritual] grabs from the very first page, refuses to be laid aside, and carries the hapless reader, exhausted and wrung out, to the very last sentence… Nevill is excellent at characterisation, and evokes the terror and despair experienced by the quartet with heart-stopping fidelity. Best of all, though, is his depiction of the elemental forces of evil that haunt the hostile arctic wastelands. Superb.’  The Guardian

Pan, May 2012

Option Publishers
US: St Martin’s Press
China (simple): Shanghai Translation
France: Bragelonne
Germany: Heyne
Poland: Ksiaznica
Russia: EXMO
Spain: Planeta
Thailand: Tawansong
Turkey: Pegasus
 

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WHY WE BUILD

Rowan Moore

A brilliant and provocative examination of why we need to create buildings – and why some work brilliantly and others spectacularly fail.

Rowan Moore is one of Britain’s leading writers on architecture. He writes a weekly column for The Observer, and was formerly Architecture Critic of the London Evening Standard. He was also editor of the groundbreaking architecture and design magazine Blueprint.

Picador, June 2012