Publishing Deals - Marklund, Mariani

I reported earlier this year that Transworld are publishing Liza Marklund's books in the UK and in today's Publishers Lunch Weekly it seems that she's getting the US treatment as well:

Scandinavian crime writer Liza Marklund's THE RED WOLF, NOBEL'S LAST WILL, LIFETIME and A PLACE IN THE SUN, to Emily Bestler at Atria, in a four-book deal, by Niclas Salomonsson at Salomonsson Agency (US).

and also Scott Mariani's who is already published in the UK, will soon be published in the US:

Scott Mariani's THE MOZART CONSPIRACY, pitched in the tradition of Robert Ludlum and Dan Brown, following recurring character former British Special Air Service officer Ben Hope as he gets caught up in a centuries-old mystery surrounding the death of Mozart, along with its follow-up THE DOOMSDAY PROPHECY... for publication in spring 2011.

New Reviews: Cain, Frimansson, Jones, MacBride, Mariani, Nadel

A new competition is running (open to all!); win a copy of My Last Confession by Helen Fitzgerald.

Here are this week's globe-trotting reviews:

Paul Blackburn reviews Assassin by Tom Cain, the third of the 'Sam Carver' thrillers;

Maxine Clarke reviews Island of the Naked Women by Inger Frimansson writing that it is "a strong candidate for my "best of" list for this year";

Laura Root reviews The Salati Case by Tobias Jones the first of a new PI series set in Italy;

Craig Sisterson reviews Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride the fifth in the DS McRae series set in Aberdeen;

Amanda Gillies reviews The Doomsday Prophecy by Scott Mariani which is the third in the Ben Hope, ex-SAS, series

and Terry Halligan reviews the latest in the Turkish Cetim Ikman series from Barbara Nadel - River of the Dead - which is now out in paperback.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.