Publishing Deal - Robin Blake

The Bookseller reports that Macmillan New Writing have signed up Robin Blake:

Pan Macmillan has acquired two books in a historical mystery series from author Robin Blake.

The series is set in Lancashire in the 1740s and features Coroner Titus Cragg and Dr Luke Fidelis. The first book is provisionally titled Awake in the Night, and sees Cragg & Fidelis investigating the death of the local squire’s wife. The book will be published in hardback in January 2011 and the sequel will follow in 2012.