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DHH News Roundup 8th - 14th March 2021

3/15/2021

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Last week saw the publication of S. V. Leonard's debut novel The Islanders. ​
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A gripping hybrid of And Then There Were None and Love Island, the book follows former copper Kimberley King as she travels to a remote, exotic location to take part in the rebooted reality TV show, Love Wrecked.

But the island isn’t the paradise she was promised and within hours, one of the contestants is dead. Then the announcement comes: one of the islanders is a murderer and Kimberley must find out who, live on television. For every hour it takes her, one more person will die.
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The game is rigged, everyone is hiding secrets, and time is running out…
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To celebrate, Sarah chatted to UK Crime Book Club over on Facebook, where she talked about how she joined us at DHH, her writing journey and process - and how lockdown has affected her creativity. 

​If you missed it, no fear - you can catch up by clicking this link. 

In addition, Sarah will be taking over Canelo's Twitter account this Thursday (18th March) at 6pm for a live author chat, to discuss all things murder and, of course, The Islanders​. Don't miss it!

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Also taking part in a Facebook event is The List author, Carys Jones, on Wednesday 24th March at 7pm. 

Joining the chat is free (register here) and is hosted by Telford & Wreckin Libraries. 

As well as dishing the goss on her book, Carys will be talking about her writing process and what she has coming up next.


We had some wonderful rights sales happen this week:

  • The Dressmaker of Paris, Georgia Kaufmann's debut novel was snapped up by Urano in Spain
  • M. W. Craven's second Washington Poe instalment, Black Summer was acquired by Pegasus in Estonia
  • Both of Jo Thomas' gorgeous getaway titles, Coming Home to Winter Island and Sunset Over the Cherry Orchard went to Polaris in Sweden
  • The Empire of the Wolf trilogy, the debut SFF series by Richard Swan has been bought by Eksmo in Russia

Congratulations to our fab clients!
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The cover for Chris McGeorge's next fab page-turning psychological thriller, Half Past Tomorrow​ was revealed this week!
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Shirley Steadman, a 70 year old living in a small town in the North East of England, loves her volunteer work at the local hospital radio. She likes giving back to the community, and even more so, she likes getting out of the house. Haunted by the presence of her son, a reluctant Royal Navy officer who was lost at sea, and still in the shadow of her long dead abusive husband, she doesn't like being alone much.

One day, at the radio station, she is playing around with the equipment and finds a frequency that was never there before. It is a pirate radio station, and as she listens as the presenter starts reading the news. But there is one problem - the news being reported is tomorrows. Shirley first thinks it is a mere misunderstanding - a wrong date. But she watches as everything reported comes true. At first, Shirley is in awe of the station, and happily tunes in to hear the news.

But then the presenter starts reporting murders - murders that happen just the way they were reported.

And Shirley is the only one who can stop them.


The book will be published by Orion on 5th August 2021.


David Headley welcomed two new authors to his list last week:

Jo Lyons is currently working on her debut novel after 12 months of commuting back and forth between Alicante, Spain and her native Newcastle (having persuaded her family to take an extended family gap year there), Jo found the stories she learned from chatting to strangers on the plane were the perfect inspiration for her writing. 

Katrín Júlíúsdóttir received the Blackbird Award, an Icelandic crime-writing prize, for her first novel, Sykur (en: Sugar) in 2020. Her debut novel was reviewed well by critics and hit the best-selling lists in the first weeks after publication. Katrín is the Managing Director of Finance Iceland and has a strong political background. 
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