1 LEE CHILD AND ANDREW CHILD THE SENTINEL ‘ONE OF THE MANY GREAT THINGS ABOUT JACK REACHER IS THAT HE'S LARGER THAN LIFE WHILE REMAINING RELATABLE AND BELIEVABLE. THE SENTINEL SHOWS THAT TWO CHILDS ARE BETTER THAN ONE’ James Patterson 'I LOVED THE SENTINEL! CLASSIC REACHER, GREAT STORY. BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT. I DO LOVE THE SPARE WRITING STYLE, THE DESCRIPTIONS, REACHER’S RESPONSES TO THREATS. JOYOUS STUFF. I HOPE THERE WILL BE MANY MORE REACHERS TO COME' Conn Iggulden SEE PAGE 35 FOR MORE INFORMATION 2 CRIME & THRILLERS NEW TITLES LIST FRANKFURT 2020 CONTENTS DÉBUT AND NEW THRILLERS STEPHEN SPOTSWOOD 5 LEE CHILD AND ANDREW CHILD 35 IMRAN MAHMOOD 7 JOHN CONNOLLY 37 EMMA BAMFORD 8 T.M. LOGAN 39 POLLY HO-YEN 9 CATHERINE STEADMAN 42 L.V. MATTHEWS 10 C.D. MAJOR 44 LIZA COSTELLO 11 EMMA KAVANAGH 45 C.M. EWAN 46 CRIME G.X. TODD 47 TANA FRENCH 13 MARTINA COLE 15 TIM WEAVER 17 CHRIS CARTER 19 MARTYN FORD 21 VICKI BRADLEY 22 G.R. HALLIDAY 23 JACQUI ROSE 24 PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE B.A. PARIS 26 PHOEBE MORGAN 28 LAUREN NORTH 29 SANDIE JONES 30 EGAN HUGHES 31 K.L. SLATER 32 POPULAR FICTION AND NON-FICTION GUIDE ALSO AVAILABLE DARLEY ANDERSON LITERARY, TV & FILM AGENCY Estelle House, 11 Eustace Road, London, SW6 1JB Telephone: +44 20 7386 2674 Head of Rights: [email protected] Rights Agent: [email protected] Rights Agent: [email protected] Dramatic Rights: [email protected] www.darleyanderson.com Cover artwork adapted from THE SENTINEL by Lee Child and Andrew Child (p35) 3 DÉBUT AND NEW 4 CRIME Stephen Spotswood SIX FIGURE PRE-EMPT FOR NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS MULTIPLE PRE-EMPTS AND AUCTIONS INTERNATIONALLY RIGHTS SOLD IN 11 LANGUAGES ‘THE DEEP AND SENSITIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TWO PROTAGONISTS, COUPLED WITH RICH DESCRIPTION AND TONALLY SPOT-ON HUMOR, MAKE THIS A NOVEL TO REMEMBER. SPOTSWOOD IS DEFINITELY A WRITER TO WATCH’ Publishers Weekly ‘BULLETS, BLOOD, BODIES, AND BELLY-LAUGHS: ALL THE INGREDIENTS OF A CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL. STEPHEN SPOTSWOOD HARD-BOILS WITH THE BEST OF ‘EM!’ Alan Bradley, author of the Flavia de Luce series ‘IT TAKES GRITTY 40S NOIR, SHAKES IT UP, GIVES IT A CHARMING TWIST, AND SERVES IT UP WITH UNFORGETTABLE STYLE. MY NEW FAVORITE SLEUTHING DUO ARE PENTECOST AND PARKER, THE SPIRITUAL SISTERS OF NERO WOLFE AND ARCHIE GOODWIN. AN UTTERLY BRILLIANT DEBUT!’ Deanna Raybourn, author of the Veronica Speedwell Mysteries 5 CRIME DÉBUT Stephen Spotswood FORTUNE FAVOURS THE DEAD: A PENTECOST AND PARKER NOVEL INTRODUCING PENTECOST AND PARKER - TWO CHARACTERS DESTINED TO BE CRIME FICTION ROYALTY! A CONTEMPORARY TAKE ON THE CLASSIC HARDBOILED DETECTIVE STORY SET IN MID-CENTURY NEW YORK, THIS IS AN ATMOSPHERIC AND INTRIGUING DÉBUT FROM AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT ‘PENTECOST IS ALMOST SHERLOCKIAN WITH HER INSIGHT AND INTELLIGENCE. WILL IS HEADSTRONG, FUNNY AND FIERCE. TOGETHER THEY FORM A FORCEFUL, YET TOUCHINGLY VULNERABLE PARTNERSHIP. ONE OF MOST COMPELLING BOOKS I’VE READ. ABSOLUTELY MARVELLOUS’ M.W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost is the most successful private detective in the city, but her health is failing. She hires an assistant to help with the investigative legwork. Willowjean Parker is a circus runaway. Quick-witted and street-smart, she’s a jack-of-all-trades with a unique skill-set. She can pick locks blindfolded, wrestle men twice her size, and throw knives with deadly precision. She is hired by Ms. P. When wealthy young widow Abigail Collins is murdered and the police are making no progress, Pentecost and Parker are hired by the family to track down the culprit. On Halloween night, there was a costume party at the Collins’ mansion; a fortune teller hired to entertain the guests. Several hours later her body was discovered bludgeoned to death in her late husband's office. Problem is, the door to the office was locked from the inside. There was no-one else in the room, and the murder weapon was beside the victim; the fortune teller’s crystal ball. It looks like an impossible crime, but Pentecost and Parker know there is no such thing... UK publication: 12th November 2020 US publication: 20th October 2020 304 pages WORLD: Darley Anderson Agency (Darley Anderson) ITALIAN: Mondadori NORTH AMERICAN: Doubleday (Bill Thomas) JAPANESE: Tokyo Sogensha UK & COMMONWEALTH: Wildfire / Headline POLISH: Publicat CATALAN: Univers RUSSIAN: Eksmo COMP. CHINESE: Chi Ming SPANISH: Ediciones B FRENCH: Calmann Levy UKRAINE: ZHORZH GERMAN: Blanvalet FILM & TV RIGHTS: Available (Steve Fisher, APA) GREEK: Harlenic Hellas Stephen Spotswood is an award-winning playwright, and spends much of his time creating genre-bending, female-centric stories for the stage. When not in rehearsal, he works as medical journalist. He lives with his wife in New York. FORTUNE FAVOURS THE DEAD is his first novel. He is currently writing the second novel in the Pentecost and Parker series. 6 CRIME / LITERARY Imran Mahmood I KNOW WHAT I SAW POWERFUL SECOND NOVEL FROM CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR AND CRIMINAL BARRISTER XANDER SHUTE, FORMER BANKER NOW HOMELESS, SEES AND REPORTS A MURDER, AN ACT WHICH SENDS HIM REELING BACK TO HIS PAST BBC TV ADAPTATION OF YOU DON’T KNOW ME GIVEN THE GREENLIGHT WITH SCREENWRITER TOM EDGE OF THE CROWN AND JUDY ATTACHED ‘IT’S THE VOICE THAT DOES IT...STARTLINGLY CONFIDENT’ Tana French I saw it. He smothered her, pressing his hands on her face. The police don't believe me, they say it's impossible - but I know what I saw. This is Xander Shute: once a wealthy banker, now living on the streets. As he shelters for the night in an empty Mayfair flat, he hears its occupants returning home, and scrambles to hide as the couple argue. Trapped in his hiding place, he soon finds himself witnessing a vicious murder. But who was the dead woman, who the police later tell him can't have been there? And why is the man Xander saw her with evading justice? As Xander searches for answers, his memory of the crime comes under scrutiny, forcing him to confront his long-buried past and the stories he's told about himself. How much he is willing to risk to understand the brutal truth? UK publication: 3rd June 2021 368 pages Praise for Imran Mahmood: ‘A daring concept executed to perfection’ Lee Child ‘Startlingly original’ Daily Mail ‘This is SO good. It’s brilliantly well-written. I couldn’t stop!’ Ruth Ware WORLD: Darley Anderson Agency (Camilla Bolton) UK & COMMONWEALTH: Raven Books / Bloomsbury (Sara Helen Binney) AUDIO: Audible FILM & TV RIGHTS: Available (Sheila David) Previous titles: YOU DON’T KNOW ME: UK & COMMONWEALTH: Michael Joseph; CZECH: Dobrovsky; POLISH: Czarna Owca; PORTUGUESE: Bertrand Editora; ROMANIAN: Rao Editura; TURKISH: Indigo Kitap; FILM & TV RIGHTS: Under option Imran Mahmood is a practising criminal barrister with more than 25 years' experience. His début novel, YOU DON’T KNOW ME (Michael Joseph), was chosen by Simon Mayo as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice, was longlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger, 2018 and was shortlisted for The Glass Bell Award, 2018. It is currently being adapted into a four part BBC TV series by Tom Edge, screenwriter for The Crown, The Silkworm and Judy. Imran is currently writing original content for TV and plotting his third novel. Born and brought up in Liverpool, he now 7 lives in London with his wife and two children. THRILLER DÉBUT Emma Bamford DEEP WATER (working title) MESMERISING ESCAPIST THRILLER FROM DÉBUT FICTION AUTHOR SEVEN FIGURE PRE-EMPT FOR NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS; UK RIGHTS SOLD AT AUCTION IN SIX FIGURE DEAL WHEN VIRGINIE AND JAKE SET SAIL FOR AMARANTE, THEY ARE SURE PARADISE AWAITS THEM. BUT EVEN PARADISE COMES AT A COST THE BEACH FOR THE 21ST CENTURY When a naval vessel finds a sailing yacht in distress in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Captain Danial Tengku orders his ship to stop and help. On board is a British couple: a badly injured man, Jake, and his traumatised wife, Virginie. Virginie claims they have come from Amarante, a remote paradise island that is only known by word of mouth. Then she confesses: ‘It’s all my fault. I killed them!’ UK publication: Spring 2022 US publication: TBC 308 typescript pages WORLD: Darley Anderson Agency (Camilla Bolton) UK & COMMONWEALTH: Simon & Schuster (Suzanne Baboneau) NORTH AMERICAN: Scout Press/S&S US (Alison Callahan) FILM & TV RIGHTS: Available (Sheila David) Emma Bamford is studying an MA in Prose Fiction at UEA, UK. The novel is inspired by Emma’s experiences living on yachts after she quit her job at The Independent and answered an ad on the internet for ‘crew wanted’. That adventure led to a pair of memoirs, CASTING OFF and UNTIE THE LINES, which were published by Bloomsbury UK in 2014 and 2016. She now works as a freelance journalist, for titles including the Mirror, BOAT International and Sailing Today. DEEP WATER is Emma’s fiction début. An earlier draft was shortlisted for last year’s Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript. 8 THRILLER DÉBUT Polly Ho-Yen DARK LULLABY BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND EXTRAORDINARILY COMPELLING DÉBUT THRILLER IN A WORLD WHERE PARENTING IS GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED, ONE WOMAN MUST FIGHT TO KEEP HER FAMILY TOGETHER PERFECT FOR FANS OF BLACK MIRROR AND NEVER LET ME GO Kit is an 'out', she doesn't want children. Infertility is universal. She has witnessed the agonies of her friends and sister going through the painful and dangerous fertility treatment, Induction. Seeing them struggle to keep their babies, she cannot face going through it herself. But then she meets Thomas, and gradually the idea of a baby becomes more and more important.