Publishing News - Markaris and Maitland

From The Bookseller:

As part of its EuroCrime series, Arcadia has also paid a good four-figure sum for UK and Commonwealth rights in The Major Shareholder and Che Killed Himself by Greek writer Petros Markaris. Rights were obtained from Susanne Bauknecht at Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, with publication slated for 2009.

UK rights to Barry Maitland's forthcoming novel No Trace, in the same genre, have also been acquired by Arcadia from David Higham on behalf of Wenona Byrne at Australian Literary Management, with a four-figure sum once more changing hands. The book will appear in 2008.

No Trace has already been published in Australia and the US.

The column also has details of a new book by Emma Tennant which has Princess Di coming back from the dead to minister to Prince Harry...

Barry Maitland

Barry Maitland was born in Scotland, brought up in London but now lives in Australia. The latest in his Brock and Kolla series, Spider Trap, gets its US premiere next month. It was first published in Australia last August and as yet does not have a UK publication date.

Synopsis: Skeletons are discovered in wasteland behind Cockpit Lane, a poor black area of inner South London, and DCI David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes Branch are called in to investigate.
The discovery that the victims died during the Brixton riots, over twenty years before, leads Brock and Kolla on a dark and dangerous journey into the heart of the West Indian community in London. It's a journey in which past and present come together in an intricate web of deception and intrigue as Brock encounters a formidable old antagonist, Spider Roach. In a desperate search to find a crucial piece of evidence, Brock and Kolla unwittingly set in train a series of events that erupt in a shocking, violent conclusion.

Barry Maitland's next book, out in Australia in October is apparently a non Brock and Kolla, called 'Bright Air'.

New Review on Euro Crime

I've just uploaded Karen Chisholm's review of 'Spider Trap' by Barry Maitland. This series is now published first in Australia. The previous book in the series, 'No Trace' is due out in the US in October. Not sure about a date for a UK release though.