1 2 CRIME & THRILLERS NEW TITLES LIST FRANKFURT 2019 CONTENTS DÉBUT AND NEW THRILLER VICKI BRADLEY 5 LEE CHILD 35 POLLY HO-YEN 6 JOHN CONNOLLY 38 C.M. EWAN 7 T.M. LOGAN 41 C.D. MAJOR 8 CATHERINE STEADMAN 43 EGAN HUGHES 9 JAMES CAROL 44 MARTYN FORD 10 ROB SINCLAIR 45 G.X. TODD 47 ERIK STOREY 49 CRIME MARTINA COLE 12 TANA FRENCH 14 TIM WEAVER 17 CHRIS CARTER 19 G.R. HALLIDAY 21 EMMA KAVANAGH 22 ROB SINCLAIR 23 JACQUI ROSE 24 PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE B.A. PARIS 26 PHOEBE MORGAN 28 SANDIE JONES 29 LAUREN NORTH 30 K.L. SLATER 31 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 B.A. Paris’ THE DILEMMA (p26) 3 DÉBUT AND NEW 4 PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER DÉBUT Vicki Bradley BEFORE I SAY I DO A COMPELLING AND DARK PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM LONDON METROPOLITAN DETECTIVE CONSTABLE JULIA IS MARRYING MARK TODAY. SHE WANTS TO LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND. BUT THE GROOM IS MISSING. AND HER PAST IS CLOSER THAN SHE THINKS. PERFECT FOR FANS OF HEIDI PERKS AND JESSICA KNOLL It’s Julia’s wedding day. Her nerves are to be expected - every bride feels the same - but there’s another layer to her fear, one that she cannot explain to her soon-to-be husband, Mark. She’s never told him the details - and she is determined he never finds out. As she begins down the aisle, spotting Mark in his tailored suit, she knows she is taking her first steps to happiness - her past is behind her, it can’t catch her now. Mark turns to face her... But it isn’t Mark in the beautiful suit - it’s his best man. Because Mark is missing. And Julia’s past is closer than she thinks... UK publication: May 2020 334 typescript pages WORLD: Darley Anderson Agency (Camilla Bolton) UK & COMMONWEALTH: Simon & Schuster (Bethan Jones) AUDIO: Simon & Schuster FILM & TV RIGHTS: Available (Sheila David) Vicki Bradley is a detective constable in the Metropolitan Police Service. She has had a varied career, as a response driver to 999 calls and a detective in the Serious Organised Crime Command. Vicki completed a Creative Writing Novel MA at City University of London in 2016. She enjoys scuba diving and travelling the world. BEFORE I SAY I DO is her first novel. 5 THRILLER DÉBUT Polly Ho-Yen DARK LULLABY BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND EXTRAORDINARILY COMPELLING DÉBUT THRILLER FROM AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR YOU LOVE YOUR DAUGHTER. BUT IN THIS WORLD OF SUSPICION AND SURVEILLANCE, LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH. PERFECT FOR FANS OF BLACK MIRROR AND THE HANDMAID’S TALE You love your daughter. You want her to be safe. You want her to be happy. You want her to stay with you. When Kit decides to have a child, she thinks she’s prepared. She knows how demanding Induction is. She’s seen children Extracted. But in a society where parenting is strictly monitored under the watchful gaze of OSIP (The Office of Standards in Parenting), she is forced to ask herself how far she will go to keep her family together. UK publication: February 2021 310 typescript pages WORLD: Darley Anderson Agency (Clare Wallace) UK & COMMONWEALTH: Titan (Cath Trechman) AUDIO: Titan FILM & TV RIGHTS: Available (Sheila David) Polly Ho-Yen studied English at Birmingham University before working in publishing for several years. She has written four children’s books and this is her first adult fiction title. 6 THRILLER C.M. Ewan A WINDOW BREAKS A LIGHTNING-PACED, HIGH-TENSION, HOME INVASION THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAFE HOUSE TAKE PANIC ROOM AND DROP IT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE: NO SIGNAL, NO NEIGHBOURS, NO ONE TO HEAR YOUR CRIES FOR HELP ‘FANTASTIC - EWAN IS A GENIUS AT EASING YOU IN, AND THEN KEEPING YOU THERE UNTIL THE STORY IS DONE WITH YOU - WHICH WAS 3AM FOR ME’ Lee Child You are asleep. A noise wakes you. You stir, unsure why, and turn to your wife. Then you hear it. Glass. Crunching underfoot. Your worst fears are about to be realized. Someone is inside your home. Your choices are limited. You can run. Or stay and fight. What would you do? UK e-book publication: 31st October 2019 UK paperback publication: 20th February 2020 400 pages Praise for A WINDOW BREAKS: ‘A heart-stopping trip through everyone's worst nightmare. Adrenaline-filled and totally addictive' Anne Cleeves ‘A tense, fierce read, with heart, muscle and an out-of-sight twist’ Mick Herron WORLD: Darley Anderson Agency (Camilla Bolton) UK & COMMONWEALTH: Pan Macmillan (Vicki Mellor) CZECH: Oldag GERMAN: Blanvalet FILM & TV RIGHTS: Available (Sylvie Rabineau, WME) C.M. Ewan was born in Taunton in 1976 and graduated from the University of Nottingham. He later moved to the Isle of Man where he worked as a film and entertainment lawyer. In recent years, Chris has moved back to Somerset with his wife and two children, where he writes full time. He is also the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling thrillers, including SAFE HOUSE and his popular GOOD THIEF’S GUIDE TO… series of mysteries about globetrotting crime writer and thief-for-hire Charlie Howard. 7 HISTORICAL SUSPENSE C.D. Major THE OTHER GIRL HISTORICAL SUSPENSE NOVEL INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS I’M EDITH. I’M A PATIENT. I’M INNOCENT. I’M GUILTY. I’M A VICTIM. I’M A VILLAIN. I LIE. I TELL THE TRUTH. PERFECT FOR FANS OF SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE AND BEHIND HER EYES 1942, New Zealand Twenty-year-old Edith Garrett is an in-patient at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. Admitted at the age of five by her parents she has very few memories of life before. Diagnosed with schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder she has undergone invasive treatments in an effort to cure her. The morning after a terrible fire kills 37 in-patients she is questioned by police. She is one of only two survivors. Declan Harris, a newly qualified psychiatric doctor, is present at this meeting and becomes intrigued by Edith’s case. When he looks into her history it seems a lot of what he reads simply doesn’t add up. Investigating some of the things Edith said as a young girl Declan becomes even more embroiled in her case: can the impossible things she told them actually be true? Intrigue soon becomes obsession. Could it be that Edith was telling them the truth all those years ago? Could it be possible she shouldn’t even be in an institution at all? And will Declan lose his own mind as he sets out to save her? UK publication: Summer 2020 250 typescript pages WORLD: Darley Anderson Agency (Clare Wallace) UK & COMMONWEALTH: Thomas & Mercer (Jack Butler) FILM & TV RIGHTS: Available (Sheila David) C.D. Major studied History at Bristol University and went on to work in television as a runner, researcher and presenter. She taught History for seven years before becoming a housemistress at a secondary boarding school in Berkshire. She lives in Pangbourne with her husband and three children and is the author of the historical novels THE SILENT HOURS and THE LAST NIGHT. 8 SUSPENSE THRILLER DÉBUT Egan Hughes THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY CLAUSTROPHOBIC AND TWISTY DÉBUT ABOUT LOVE, REVENGE AND TRAUMA AN ORIGINAL TAKE ON THE GENRE YOU LOVE HIM. YOU TRUST HIM. YOU CAN’T ESCAPE HIM. FOR FANS THE WOMAN IN CABIN TEN AND THE WIDOW Mia is re-building her life after leaving her controlling ex-husband. She harbours thoughts of revenge, but when the police arrive to tell her he’s been murdered, she feels no relief. Jess is about to set sail with the man of her dreams, travelling from England all the way to sunny Greece. It’s the honeymoon of a lifetime, or at least that’s what she thought. What ties these women together? Who killed Mia’s ex-husband? As the investigation focuses on his new wife, Mia becomes obsessed with finding the truth. Because someone knows what happened. And if they tell the police, Mia might be the one accused of murder... UK publication: 14th May 2020 400 pages WORLD: Darley Anderson Agency (Camilla Bolton) FILM & TV RIGHTS: Available (Sheila David) UK & COMMONWEALTH: Little, Brown (Lucy Dauman) AUDIO: Little, Brown POLISH: Albatros Egan Hughes was born in North Devon and grew up in Hampshire. She is now based on the South Coast of England and works in marketing as a freelance copyeditor. An early version of THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY was shortlisted for the First Novel Prize, and the most recent Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition. She is currently writing her new novel, THE CUCKOO’S NEST. 9 CRIME DÉBUT Martyn Ford EVERY MISSING THING DARK AND TWISTY THRILLER EXPLORING THE TEMPTATION OF SPECULATION AND THE DANGER OF LIES THE CLOCK IS TICKING, THE WORLD IS WATCHING AND CHAOS RIPPLES FROM THE DARK HEART OF ONE UNANSWERED QUESTION PERFECT FOR FANS OF CARA HUNTER AND TV SERIES THE MISSING The boy who’s been missing for eight years. The girl who disappeared yesterday. The parents who claim innocence. And the man who believes them. Ethan Clarke’s disappearance was a media sensation. Even now, years later, his name and his parents are synonymous with the mystery itself. And although the Clarkes seem to finally be settling into a life of ‘normality’, their fragile peace can’t last.