Indonesia: Maxima Creative Agency Israel: The Book Publishers Association of Israel/Beverley Levit Italy: The Italian Agency Japan: Japan UNI Agency Korea: Korea Copyright Center Netherlands: Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency Netherlands *Children’s*: MO Literary Services Poland: Book/Lab Literary Agency Romania: Simona Kessler International Copyright Agency Russia: Synopsis Literary Agency Scandinavia: Ia Atterholm Serbia/Croatia/Slovenia: Plima Literary Agency Spain/Portugal: RDC Agencia Literaria Taiwan/PRC: Bardon-Chinese Media Agency Thailand: Tuttle-Mori Thailand Turkey: Akcali Copyright Agency UK/Commonwealth: Writers House UK, Angharad Kowal GIVE ME YOUR HAND Megan Abbott Little, Brown & Company: Spring 2018 Translation: Writers House; UK: sold to Picador; Audio: with publisher Manuscript Status: Available April 2017 Coming on the heels of her bestselling YOU WILL KNOW ME (“Shocking and perfect”—New York Times Book Review. “Exceptional”—Paula Hawkins), Megan Abbott’s GIVE ME YOUR HAND is a gripping psychological thriller about two women, brilliant scientists and former classmates, reunited years later in a high-stakes laboratory, where their professional competition is intensified by a dark secret they share. Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of eight novels, including THE FEVER and DARE ME. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Guardian, and The Believer. “[Abbott] is in top form in this novel. She resumes her customary role of black cat, opaque and unblinking,filling her readers with queasy suspicion at every turn” –Jennifer Senior for The New York Times “Scene by scene and moment to moment, she keeps you on edge—the same way “Breaking Bad” did, without the meth or machismo…un-put-downable…” –Lloyd Sachs for The Chicago Tribune “Megan Abbott is the mistress of noir.” –Sarah Bryan Miller for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Abbott [is] above other writers in this genre, making her something of a Stephen King, whose work hangs right on the edge of the literary while making your skin crawl.” –Marion Winik for Newsday
CRIMSON DEATH Laurell K. Hamilton Berkley: October 2016 Translation: Writers House; UK: sold to Headline; Audio: with publisher Finished Books Available The 25th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Something is wrong with Damian, Anita’s vampire servant. Instead of peacefully dying at dawn like the other undead, he is being plagued by violent nightmares and blood sweats. And now, with Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita needs him the most. The vampire who created him, who subjected him to centuries of torture, might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind’s few strict taboos. But when Anita joins forces with her friend Edward to stop the carnage, Damian will be at their side, even if it means traveling back to the land where all his nightmares spring from...a place that couldn’t be less welcoming to a vampire, an assassin, and a necromancer. Laurell K. Hamilton is a full-time writer and the author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Merry Gentry series. “Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris “If you’ve never read this series, I highly recommend/strongly suggest having the Anita Blake experience. Vampires, zombies, and shifters, oh my! And trust me, these are not your daughter’s vampires.”—Literati Book Reviews “A sex-positive, kick-ass female protagonist.”—Starburst “Number one New York Times bestseller Hamilton is still thrilling fans...with her amazing multifaceted characters and intricate multilayered world, a mix of erotic romance, crime-drama, and paranormal/ fantasy fiction. Her descriptive prose is gritty and raw, with a mosaic of humor and horror to tell this complex, welldetailed story. But it’s her enigmatic stable of stars that continues to shine, managing their improbable interpersonal relationship dynamics.”—Library Journal Rights to recent Anita Blake books have sold in the Czech Republic: Epocha; France: Bragelonne; Hungary: Agave; Italy: Nord; Poland: Zysk; Russia: AST
BURNTOWN Jennifer McMahon Doubleday: April 25, 2017 Translation/UK: Writers House; Audio: with publisher Manuscript: available Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it’s known as “Burntown.” Eva Sandeski, known as “Necco” on the street, has been a part of this underworld for years, ever since the night her father Miles drowned in a flood that left her and her mother Lily homeless. A respected professor, Miles was also an inventor of fantastic machines, including one so secret that the plans were said to have been stolen from Thomas Edison’s workshop. According to Lily, it’s this machine that got Miles murdered. Necco has always written off this claim as the fevered imaginings of a woman consumed by grief. But when Lily dies under mysterious circumstances, and Necco’s boyfriend is murdered, she’s convinced her mother was telling the truth. Now, on the run from the man called “Snake Eyes,” Necco must rely on other Burntown outsiders to survive. There are the “fire eaters,” mystical women living off the grid in a campsite on the river’s edge, practicing a kind of soothsaying inspired by powerful herbs called “the devil’s snuff”; there’s Theo, a high school senior who is scrambling to repay the money she owes a dangerous man; and then there’s Pru, the cafeteria lady with a secret life. As the lives of these misfits intersect, and as the killer from the Sandeski family’s past draws ever closer, a story of edge-of-your-seat suspense begins to unfurl with classic Jennifer McMahon twists and surprises. Rights to THE WINTER PEOPLE were sold in Brazil: Record; Czech Republic: Dobrovsky; Finland: Bazar; France: Laffont; Germany: Ullstein; Indonesia: Mizan; Poland: Media Rodzina; Norway: Bazar; Russia: Exmo; Sweden: Bazar; Turkey: Ephesus Yayinlari.