When Commander Thomas Pitt is ordered to protect a young woman visiting London from Spain, he cannot see why this is a job for Special Branch. When she disappears in the dead of night from Angel Court, however, he is faced with a dangerous mystery. Sofia preached new, and some say blasphemous, religious ideals, and her life had been threatened. But Pitt senses there is some deeper and more dangerous reason for her kidnap – if that is what it is. Three men are caught up in the hunt for Sofia – her cousin, a banker for the Church of England, a popular and charismatic politician, and a journalist who seems determined to goad Pitt to the truth. Each seem to be hiding something, and as the search for answers stretches from London to Spain, Pitt knows that time is running out, and the nation’s security could be at stake…Angel Court is the thirtieth superb mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt from the master of Victorian crime.
Polish rights to Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT and the next five books in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series resold to Mag Jacek Rodek via Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson.
French rights for limited editions of Brent Week’s Night Angel trilogy, to Bragelonne, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Donald Maass.
German translation rights to Jim Butcher’s and Evil Hat Productions’ Dresden Files Roleplaying Game to Christian Loewenthal at Prometheus Games Verlag by Jennifer Jackson.
Two new anthologies from Leslie S. Klinger: In the Company of Sherlock Holmes II (with Laurie King) and In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, to Claiborne Hancock at Pegasus Books, by Donald Maass.
Two DMLA books were awarded a 2014 Earphones Award by AudioFile Magazine:
Czech rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BROKEN EYE, Book 3 in the Lightbrigher series, to Fantom Print, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Polish rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, to Papierowy Ksiezyc, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Bulgarian rights to Robert McCammon’s THE BORDER, to Ciela Norma, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Czech rights to Robert McCammon’s THE BORDER and SPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD, to Classic, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Congratulations to DMLA authors nominated for a 2015 SFX Award!
Best Novel:
When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against time to save the country they love and the world itself… from itself. Lagoon expertly juggles multiple points of view and crisscrossing narratives with prose that is at once propulsive and poetic, combining everything from superhero comics to Nigerian mythology to tie together a story about a city consuming itself.
At its heart a story about humanity at the crossroads between the past, present, and future, Lagoon touches on political and philosophical issues in the rich tradition of the very best science fiction, and ultimately asks us to consider the things that bind us together – and the things that make us human.
When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against time to save the country they love and the world itself… from itself. Lagoon expertly juggles multiple points of view and crisscrossing narratives with prose that is at once propulsive and poetic, combining everything from superhero comics to Nigerian mythology to tie together a story about a city consuming itself.
At its heart a story about humanity at the crossroads between the past, present, and future, Lagoon touches on political and philosophical issues in the rich tradition of the very best science fiction, and ultimately asks us to consider the things that bind us together – and the things that make us human.
Mrs. Jeffries and the One Who Got Away (#33 in the series) debuts on the New York Times Best Seller Mass Market list!
Normally dead bodies in a graveyard are buried—but not this one. When a woman is found strangled in a North London cemetery with an old newspaper clipping clutched in her hand, Inspector Witherspoon is surprised to find that he and the victim have crossed paths before.
Alice Robinson was a respectable widow who ran a quiet Islington lodging house. None of her lodgers have any apparent motive to murder their landlady. But nagging suspicions are lodging in the Inspector’s mind—only he knows that “Alice Robinson” is not her real name. Now he’ll need the help of Mrs. Jeffries to revisit an old case that has haunted him for years and to get the real story.