Things Learned This Week (2)

News from 'Social Media' this week:

It's not crime but it is Danish - I strongly recommend Love is All You Need, which is on BBC Four tonight at 10pm and stars Trine Dyrholm and Pierce Brosnan.

Luther creator, Neil Cross, is to adapt the Tom Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith for a TV series, reports Variety.

Elijah Wood signs on for the US version of Dirk Gently's Holistic Agency (though not as Dirk) - more information is at Den of Geek.

ITV confirms that Marcella, written by Hans Rosenfeldt and starring Anna Friel will start on 4 April. Further details on the ITV website.

and some sad news - the founder of Arcadia Books, Gary Pulsifer has died. (The Bookseller.

Things Learned This Week

Here are a few things I picked up on email/Twitter this week:

Ian Rankin's next Rebus will be called Rather be the Devil and will be out in November.

You can download Copenhagen Noir for free until the end of today from Akashic Books.

Ragnar Jonasson's Icelandic series is to be made into a tv series.

The Absent One based on Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen will be in UK Cinemas on 8 April according to scanoir.co.uk.

Gomorrah Season 2 will be transmitted in the UK on Sky Atlantic from 10 May.

And don't forget, if you're in the UK you can enter the (Euro Crime) competition to win a DVD of The Last Panthers.

Tweets from Severn House

A couple of recent publishing deal snippets from @KateLyallGrant (Commercial fiction editor, publisher of the Creme de la Crime imprint at Severn House):

Thrilled to have signed up David Wishart's Marcus Corvinus Roman mystery series for Creme de la Crime

Delighted to have signed up acclaimed SF writer Eric Brown whose historical crime novel takes him in an exciting new direction