Trailer Thursday - Amberville

Amberville by pseudonymous Swedish author, Tim Davys is now out in paperback. It's the first of an unusual trilogy, as you can see from the blurb and trailer below:

Eric Bear thinks he has escaped his violent past, but when crime boss Nicholas Dove threatens Eric's beloved wife Emma Rabbit, Eric has no choice but to do what he asks: find a way to remove Dove's name from the Death List. Problem is, no one knows if the Death List really exists. Nevertheless, Eric gathers his old team together - sadistic male prostitute Sam Gazelle, sweet but dangerous Tom-Tom Crow, and wily Snake Marek - and they set off to find the elusive list. What Eric learns will forever change the way he thinks about his life, his family, and his town.

Trailer

Update to 'More from Tim Davys'

Here's a bit more information on the publishing deal I mentioned recently for Tim Davys. From Publishers Lunch:

Pseudonymous author of Amberville, Tim Davys' next three books in his Mollisan Town Quartet, LANCEHEIM, TOURQUAI and YOK, translated from Swedish and once again involving stuffed animals behaving badly, to Jeanette Perez at Harper, for publication in March 2010, by Susanna Einstein at LJK Literary Management (world).

More from Tim Davys

Well we haven't even had the first book (in translation) from Tim Davys yet but a teaser in today's Publishers Lunch says that there's a publishing deal for his next three books. More details will probably be released to non-subscribers shortly (I hope). To remind you, Tim Davys is a pseudonymous Swedish author and his first book Amberville, which will be out next February in the US, was described thusly as:

...both a plot-twisting noir and a meditation on good and evil, featuring a highly unusual cast of stuffed animals (and no human characters) -- some of whom come to realize that their seemingly benign world is far from fluffy

Publishing Deals

From Publishers Lunch:

Pseudonymous Swedish author Tim Davys' first novel AMBERVILLE, both a plot-twisting noir and a meditation on good and evil, featuring a highly unusual cast of stuffed animals (and no human characters) -- some of whom come to realize that their seemingly benign world is far from fluffy, to Alison Callahan at Harper, in a pre-empt, by Susanna Einstein at LJK Literary Management (world; excluding Swedish).

and from The Bookseller Digital Daily at Frankfurt:

Jane Wood at Quercus has done her first deal with her daughter Caroline Wood at the Felicity Bryan Agency. Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker is the first in a series of crime novels in the style of Alexander McCall Smith, set in rural France. Wood bought UK and Commonwealth rights exc Canada.

She also snapped up a début crime novel from historian Shona Maclean. The Redemption of Alexander Seaton is set in 16th-century Scotland and is narrated by a fallen priest. Wood bought UK and Commonwealth rights exc Canada in two books from Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton, and will publish in July 2008.