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RIGHTS GUIDE SPRING 2021 Philip Spitzer, President [email protected] Anne-Lise Spitzer, Executive Vice President [email protected] Lukas Ortiz, Agent/Director of Foreign Rights [email protected] Kim Lombardini, Business Manager [email protected] http://www.spitzeragency.com/ Foreign Rights Guide / Spitzer Agency / Spring 2021 Page 1 NEW TITLES Ken Bruen: A GALWAY EPIPHANY (Mysterious Press, November 2020) In the newest novel in Bruen’s thrilling series, ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor is pulled out of his quiet new life on a farm by three mysteries that soon prove dangerously linked. Alafair Burke: FIND ME (HarperCollins, January 2022) The disappearance of a young woman leaves her closest friend reeling and an NYPD homicide detective digging into her own past in this thrilling mystery full of twists from the New York Times bestselling author of The Better Sister and The Wife. James Lee Burke: ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN (Simon & Schuster, August 2021): The New York Times bestselling author brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The latest installment in his masterful Holland family saga, Another Kind of Eden is both riveting and one of Burke’s most ambitious works to date. It dismantles the myths of both the twentieth-century American West and the peace-and-love decade, excavating the beauty and idealism of the era to show the menace and chaos that lay simmering just beneath the surface. Gar Anthony Haywood: IN THINGS UNSEEN (Slant, Nov. 2020). From acclaimed crime novelist Gar Anthony Haywood comes a riveting tale unlike any he's told before . Best described as a “faith-based novel of suspense,” this is the story of an unexpected miracle: the resurrection of a little boy who dies in a freak car accident, only to return to his bed eight months later, alive and well and oblivious to his death. It’s the answer to his mother’s prayers. Or is it? Dominic Martell: BLACK CHAIN (Dunn Books, 2021). International Espionage Thriller. 20 Years off the Grid and he thought he was safe. Pascual Rose is back—and this time he’s forced to aid shadowy agencies in recovering a hundred million dollars’ worth of stolen cash on a journey that will take him to the eastern Mediterranean and ultimately the shores of the Black Sea. Michael Wiley: HEAD CASE (Severn House Publishers, April 2021) Chicago private investigator Sam Kelson uncovers more than he bargained for when he investigates a series of suspicious deaths at the Clement Memorial Hospital. Foreign Rights Guide / Spitzer Agency / Spring 2021 Page 2 KEN BRUEN — A Galway Epiphany (Mysterious Press, Nov. 2020) In the newest novel in Bruen’s thrilling series, ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor is pulled out of his quiet new life on a farm by three mysteries that soon prove dangerously linked. Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called “Miracle of Galway.” People have become convinced that the two children spotted tending to him are saintly, and the site of the accident sacred. The Catholic Church isn’t so sure, and Jack is commissioned to help find the children to verify the miracle or expose the stunt. But Jack isn’t the only one looking for these children. A fraudulent order of nuns needs them to legitimatize its sanctity and becomes involved with a dangerous arsonist. Soon, the building in which the children are living burns down. Jack returns to his old tricks, and his old demons, as his quest becomes personal. Sharp and sardonic as ever, “the Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel” (Irish Independent) is at his brutal and ceaselessly suspenseful best in A Galway Epiphany. Reviews/ Blurbs for Ken Bruen: “Just as Ireland―the home of my ancestors―has captured my heart, so have Irish writers, and top among them is Ken Bruen . Do not miss Galway Girl, a novel that shows Ken Bruen’s writing at its finest and Jack Taylor’s life at its gruffest.”―Criminal Element, on Galway Girl “They don’t come much tougher than Ken Bruen’s Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor, a man with bad habits who does good despite himself.”―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review, on In the Galway Silence “[Bruen] writes short, rat-a-tat sentences that suggest a meeting of Samuel Beckett and Ogden Nash.”―Chicago Tribune, on The Ghosts of Galway “No one writes crime novels quite like Ken Bruen . I picture Bruen not so much writing as transcribing the words of a sweet fallen angel that are whispered feverishly into his ear.” ―Bookreporter “Taylor is a classic figure: an ex-cop turned seedy private eye . The book’s pleasure comes from listening to Taylor’s eloquent rants, studded with references to songs and books. His voice is wry and bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful.” ―Seattle Times, on Green Hell “[Jack Taylor] has a gift for blarney, for plain speaking, for poetic melancholy, for downing shots of Jameson's without ice, and for pregnant one-word paragraphs. .. A tough, tender, sorrowful tour of the Bruen aquarium, with all manner of fantastic creatures swimming in close proximity and touching only the fellow creatures they want to devour. Just don't get too attached to the supporting cast or read this installment just before a trip to Galway.” ―Kirkus Reviews, on In the Galway Silence Foreign Rights Guide / Spitzer Agency / Spring 2021 Page 3 “Bruen gets more done in a paragraph, a word, even a fragment of a word, than most writers get in an entire four- hundred-page doorstop. If his prose was any sharper, your eyeballs would bleed.” ―Mystery Scene “The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel.” ―Irish Independent, on Green Hell “Powered by nonstop action and acerbic wit, [In the Galway Silence] is―like the pints of Guinness that the saga’s existentially tortured, pill-popping antihero consumes on a daily basis―unfathomably dark. [Jack Taylor is] a deeply flawed but endearing character whose suffering is both tragic and transformative.” ―Publishers Weekly, on In the Galway Silence “Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows. The Emerald Lie is pure Bruen, with its verbal tics, weird typography and unorthodox wordplay.” ―The New York Times Book Review, on The Emerald Lie “Bruen’s voice is unmistakable: finely chiseled paragraphs that more closely resemble verse than prose . Bleaker than David Goodis, colder than Derek Raymond, and funnier and more violent than Richard Stark, Ken Bruen is among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades.” ―Los Angeles Review of Books, on Headstone “[Bruen] writes like an angel, a fearsome one such as he describes here, but one that you will want to keep and have close to you...A stunning experience from beginning to end, In the Galway Silence surpasses even Bruen’s usual superlative standards.”—Bookreporter Publication Order of Inspector Brant Books A White Arrest (1998) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Taming the Alien (1999) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The McDead (2001) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Blitz (2002) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Vixen (2003) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Calibre (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Ammunition (2007) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Publication Order of Jack Taylor Books The Guards (2001) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Killing of the Tinkers (2002) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Magdalen Martyrs (2003) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Dramatist (2004) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Dead Room (2005) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Priest (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Cross (2007) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Sanctuary (2008) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Devil (2010) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Headstone (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Purgatory (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Green Hell (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Emerald Lie (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Ghosts of Galway (2017) Hardcover Paperback Kindle In the Galway Silence (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Galway Girl (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle A Galway Epiphany (2020) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Foreign Rights Guide / Spitzer Agency / Spring 2021 Page 4 Publication Order of Max and Angela Books with Jason Starr Bust (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Slide (2007) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Max (2008) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Pimp (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Publication Order of Standalone Novels Shades of Grace (1993) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (1997) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Rilke on Black (1997) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Hackman Blues (1997) Hardcover Paperback Kindle London Boulevard (2002) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Dispatching Baudelaire (2004) Hardcover Paperback Kindle American Skin (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Once Were Cops (2008) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Tower (With: Reed Farrel Coleman) (2009) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Murder by the Book (2005) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Book of Virtue (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Publication Order of Short Story Collections Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities (1992) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Sherry and Other Stories (1994) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Time of Serena-May and Upon the Third (1995) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Cross A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Bruen Film & TV Adaptations: *Beginning in 2010, nine of the Jack Taylor novels were made into a TV series starring Iain Glen in the title role.