DHH News Roundup 22nd - 28th April 2024
Eleni Kyriacou
Happy publication day to Eleni Kyriacou, who last week saw the paperback release of The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou* (Head of Zeus, November 2023).
The book was a pick for the recent series of Between the Covers on BBC2.
M. W. Craven
We were thrilled last week when we heard the news that M. W. Craven has been longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year AwardP 2024 for Fearless (Constable, June 2023), the first in his series featuring Ben Koenig.
Elizabeth Lovatt
Dialogue Books has acquired Elizabeth’s Lovatt non-fiction book, Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line*, based on a real 90s lesbian helpline and due to be published in February 2025.
The deal was negotiated by Abi Fellows and all translation, American and screen rights are held by DHH.
Ragnar Jónasson
Also published last week was the paperback for Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín JAkobsdóttir’s joint-venture, Reykjavík (Michael Joseph).
A remote island. A missing girl. A city keeping its secrets…
Matt Johnson
Congratulations Matt Johnson! No Ordinary Day (AdLib, June 2023) won ‘Book of the Year’ at this year’s True Crime Awards.
The book takes an in-depth look at one of the greatest tragedies in UK policing history, the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984.
T. M. Payne
Delighted for T. M. Payne who, over the weekend, saw her debut Long Time Dead (Thomas & Mercer, April 2024), shoot to no.1 in the German crime fiction charts and no.18 in the overall German Kindle charts.
Congratulations, Tina!
Jo Thomas
The eBook for Jo Thomas’ brand new armchair-holiday read, Love In Provence, was published last week (Transworld).
The perfect antidote to this grim weather we’ve been battling through!
Robert Rutherford
The hardback for Robert Rutherford’s Seven Days was released last week by Hodder & Stoughton!
Your father is on death row. You have seven days to save him. But do you want to?
A. A. Dhand
We have bursting to spill the news about A. A. Dhand’s brand new deal with HQ!
The Chemist plus one untitled book, were acquired by HQ in a deal negotiated by David H Headley. The Chemist is the first in a planned series and will publish in spring 2025.
*deal done by Abi Fellows at The Good Literary Agency