Snippets about some publishing deals

These are very brief today. From Publishers Lunch email, news that a publishing deal has been struck for:

Lynn Shepherd's TOM-ALL-ALONE'S, a mystery that runs parallel to and in the "space between" two masterpieces of mid-Victorian fiction: Bleak House and The Woman in White.

Lynn Shepherd is the author of Murder at Mansfield Park.

And on twitter today, this from Severn House:

Just signed up 2 new novels in Fiona Buckley's Tudor mystery series featuring Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting & part-time spy, Ursula Blanchard.

I'm not sure if these are new books or new to UK books. Fiona Buckley has so-far written eight books in the Ursula Blanchard series.