DC Gary Goodhew is back with another grisly case to solve, and we absolutely love this new cover for Alison Bruce's new Cambridge-set mystery, Cambridge Black. If you look closely, our wonderful author even makes a little star appearance...

Amy was seven years old when he father was arrested for murder.His subsequent trial and conviction scarred her childhood and cast a shadow over her life until, twenty-two years later, new evidence suggests he was innocent and Amy sets out to clear his name.

But Amy is not the only person troubled by the past. DC Gary Goodhew is haunted by the day his grandfather was murdered and is still searching for answers, determined to uncover the truth about his grandfather and find his killer. 

But, right now, someone is about to die. Someone who has secrets and who once kept quiet but is now living on borrowed time. Someone who will be murdered because disturbing the past has woken a killer.

Cambridge Black is published on 23 February 2017.

​Click here to pre-order.

Here at DHH Literary Agency, we are slowly but surely getting in to the swing of Christmas: the odd carol sneaks on to the radio, the staff's Christmas buys are being delivered and Emily, David's PA, is drawing up her 'December Bakes' list (what? It's tradition...).

With that in mind, we wanted to suggest a few of our clients' books that we think would make the perfect Christmas present for your loved one - or even someone you feel indifferent to: everyone likes books, right? 

So! Without further ado, we present to you, the DHH Christmas Gift Guide...

Best Friend

• Late Summer In The Vineyard by Jo Thomas - buy it here
  The perfect getaway from the miserable weather that winter can provide, Jo Thomas' third novel takes her heroine, Emmy, to France to work for a wine-maker. Will it be smooth sailing...? Of course not!
• In Bloom by Matthew Crow - buy it here
  When Francis Wootton is diagnosed with leukaemia, his list of worries grows ever longer. But then Amber enters his life, giving him a reason to tackle it head on. A heartwarming and uplifting story of courage and determination.
• An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding by Christina Jones - buy it here
  Erin is engaged to Jay and planning her dream wedding. All is well... until his parents get involved. They are Indian and have firm beliefs about how their son's wedding should go ahead. Watch out - Bollywood's coming to Berkshire!
• Life's A Drag by Janie Millman - buy it here
  ​When Roz and Jamie move to leafy Suffolk, they are surprised to learn about the village's annual drag competition - will they join in the fun? Across the pond, Drew is fighting to save his club in San Francisco. A generous - and drunken - debut.

Well, that's it from us. We hope you've enjoyed our Christmas Gift Guide and even more so that you're inspired by the suggestions.

​From all of us here at the DHH Literary Agency, happy shopping!

Granta has acquired World English Rights for Tallulah Ellender's debut novel, Elisabeth's Lists, a deeply moving family memoir, told through a series of lists.

When Tallulah inherited her grandmother's handwritten book of lists, she found two decades' worth of everyday notes: the routine 'to do's' of running a household, details of clothes to be ordered and packed for foreign trips, shopping lists for parties. From these ordinary fragments, she has pieced together an extraordinary portrait of the grandmother she never knew: an ambassador's daughter who lived in 1930s China, married a diplomat and led a glamorous nomadic existence in far-flung corners of the globe between and during the wars. But as well as the story of find her grandmother, Tallulah's debut also records the gradual loss of her mother, and explores the way we reach to lists to make sense of the chaos of our lives and, when the time comes, to "lasso our grief".

The deal was brokered between Granta Editorial Director Laura Barber and DHH's Natalie Galustian. Elisabeth's Lists will be published in Spring 2018.

Follow Tallulah on Twitter: @tallulaloorah

Adam Hamdy's Pendulum and Abi Elphinstone's curated anthology, Winter Magic, were published this week and we're proud as punch to say that already the reaction has been deservedly wonderful.

Pendulum
You wake. Confused. Disorientated.
A noose is round your neck.
You are bound, standing on a chair.
All you can focus on is the man in the mask, tightening the rope.
You are about to die.
John Wallace has no idea why he has been targeted. No idea who his attacker is. No idea how he will prevent the inevitable.
Then the pendulum of fate swings in his favour.
He has one chance to escape, find the truth and halt his destruction.
The momentum is in his favour now.
But with a killer on his tail, everything can change with one swing of this deadly pendulum.
You have one chance. Run.

James Patterson has hailed it "one of the best thrillers of the year" and we just know this book is going to be huge. The screen rights have already been snapped up by NBC Universal and Hardy Son & Baker, as a joint venture between the two.

US publication of Pendulum (with Quercus) is June 6 2017.

Winter Magic
Dreamsnatcher author and DHH client, Abi Elphinstone, heads up this gorgeous collection of wintery stories, featuring snow queens, frost fairs, snow dragons and pied pipers, from classic children's writers such as Michelle Magorian, Geraldine McCaughrean, Jamila Gavin, Berlie Doherty, Katherine Woodfine, Piers Torday, Lauren St John, Amy Always, Michelle Harrison and Emma Carroll.
An unmissable, enchanting treat of a collection, that will be enjoyed for years to come, by readers of all ages.