Curtis Brown Australia RIGHTS NEWSLETTER July 2014 - 'Thriller' special

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Curtis Brown Australia

July 2014

Rights Newsletter

‘Thriller’ special

Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd | Literary Agents

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| LITERARY THRILLER | 272 pp | PAPERBACK |

WHAT CAME BEFORE Anna George

It’s the Australian Gone Girl meets The Lovely Bones.

Dark, atmospheric and gripping, What Came Before is a

stunning literary thriller about the risks you take when you

fall in love.

Published by: Viking, Penguin|July 2014

Rights available: English language (excl ANZ), Translation

(excl Dutch, German), Film/TV

Agent: Tara Wynne ([email protected])

Description: 'My name is David James Forrester. I'm a solicitor. Tonight, at 6.10, I

killed my wife. This is my statement.'

In Melbourne's inner west, David sits in his car, dictaphone in hand. He's sick to his

stomach but determined to record his version of events. His wife Elle hovers over her

own lifeless body as it lies in the laundry of the house they shared. David thinks back

on their relationship – intimate, passionate, intense – and what led to this terrible

night.

From her eerie vantage point, Elle traces the sweep of their shared past too. Before

David, she'd enjoyed a contented life – as a successful filmmaker, a much-loved

aunt and friend. But in the course of two years, she was captivated and then

undone by him. Not once in those turbulent times did she imagine that her alluring,

complex husband was capable of this.

'Cleverly conceived, What Came Before is a not only a suspenseful thriller, but a

powerful indictment of domestic violence.'

Qantas, The Australian Way

Initially trained as a lawyer, ANNA GEORGE has worked in the legal world as well as the film and

television industries. She studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT, and has written feature film

scripts. She is currently working on her second novel, which is set on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. She

lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children. What Came Before(Penguin, 2014) is her first

novel.

mailto:[email protected]


| THRILLER | 344 pp | PAPERBACK |

BLOOD WITNESS Alex Hammond

One man's search for justice and redemption plunges

him into the violent world of Melbourne's underbelly. A

dark and powerful thriller from a talented new voice.

Published by: Michael Joseph, Penguin|July 2014

Rights available: US, Translation, Film/TV

Agent: Fiona Inglis ([email protected])

Description: Defence lawyer Will Harris is reluctantly drawn into a bizarre murder trial.

A terminally ill man claims to have witnessed the brutal crime – in a vision.

But the looming trial is more than just a media circus: it's Will's first big case since the

tragic death of his fiancée.

With the pressure mounting, Will's loyalties are split when his fiancée's sister is

charged with drug trafficking.

The strain of balancing both cases takes its toll and Will finds himself torn between

following the law and seeking justice.

'[A] slick, fast-paced legal thriller set in Melbourne but with a genuine international

flavour and with enough twists to surprise even the most avid fans of the genre.'

West Australian

ALEX HAMMOND was born in South Africa and emigrated to Australia with his family as a child. He

graduated with an Arts/Law degree from the University of Melbourne and worked for several leading

Melbourne law firms.

Blood Witness (Penguin) is his first novel.



| CRIME THRILLER | 390 pp | PAPERBACK |

FATAL IMPACT Kathryn Fox

From the author who has been called “Australia’s answer

to Patricia Cornwell” comes the seventh book in a crime

series featuring talented forensic physician and

pathologist, Anya Crichton.

Published by: Pan Macmillan|March 2014

Rights available: English language (excl ANZ & UK),

Translation, Film/TV


Description: When a girl's dead body is found in a toy box, forensic physician and

pathologist Anya Crichton joins the police hunt in her home state of Tasmania for

the child's missing mother and sister.

Staying with her increasingly erratic mother, Dr Jocelyn Reynolds, Anya fears the

long shadow of her sister Miriam's disappearance has finally driven her mother past

the brink of sanity. But Anya soon discovers that Jocelyn is keeping a deadly secret.

When tests conclude a virulent strain of food poisoning was responsible for the

child's death, the outbreak begins to spread. Anya pairs up with Internal Affairs

detective Oliver Parke to unravel the sinister connections between the fatal

epidemic, a covered-up study, the shady deals of a multinational corporation and

the alleged murder of a local scientist. Anya has strayed into a high-stakes game so

dangerous the players will kill to keep it quiet. With time running short, Anya must

uncover the truth before she is silenced - permanently.

'Fox is a medical practitioner who has used her interest in forensic medicine to turn

thriller writer and is one of the best in the international forensic genre'

The Weekend Australian

KATHRYN FOX works as a family doctor, freelance medical journalist and editor. She has a special

interest in forensic medicine and is a member of the Association of Forensic Physicians. Her debut crime

novel Malicious Intent, featuring forensic pathologist Anya Crichton, was published by Pan Macmillan in

2004 and has been sold in the UK, Germany, France, Slovakia and Bulgaria. Since then, Kathryn has

written six more novels in the Anya Crichton series, including Without Consent, Skin and Bone, Bloodborn,

Death Mask, Cold Grave and Fatal Impact. She is currently working on a book with James Patterson in

the Private Oz series.


http://www.kathrynfox.com/


| PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER | 304 pp | PAPERBACK |

THROUGH THE CRACKS Honey Brown

A leafy street. A quiet neighbour. The darkest of crimes…

From “the best writer of psychological suspense in

Australia”.

Published by: Michael Joseph, Penguin|Apr 2014

Rights available: English language (excl ANZ), Translation,

Film/TV


Description: Adam Vander has grown tall enough and strong enough to escape his

abusive and controlling father. Emerging from behind the locked door of their

rambling suburban home, Adam steps into a world he's been kept isolated from.

In the days that follow, with the charismatic and streetwise Billy as his guide, Adam

begins to experience all that he's missed out on. As the bond between the boys

grows, questions begin to surface. Who is Adam really? Why did his father keep him

so hidden? Was it just luck that Billy found him, or an unsettling kind of fate? And

how dangerous is revealing the shocking truth of Adam's identity?

It's a treacherous climb from the darkness. For one boy to make it, the other might

have to fall through the cracks.

'Honey Brown's latest book is a slow-burning drama about child abduction. With

strong characterisation and a plot that drip-feeds its secrets, it's a winning formula.'

The Sunday Age

HONEY BROWN lives in country Victoria with her husband and two children. She is the author of: Red

Queen, The Good Daughter, After the Darkness and Dark Horse. Red Queen was published to critical

acclaim in 2009 and won an Aurealis Award, and The Good Daughter was longlisted for the Miles

Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award in 2011. After the Darkness was

selected for the Women's Weekly Great Read and for Get Reading 2012's 50 Books You Can't Put Down

campaign. Her fifth novel, Through the Cracks, was published in 2014.



| THRILLER | 304 pp | PAPERBACK |

THE SPY James Phelan

Introducing Jed Walker – the new Jack Reacher!

Published by: Hachette|Dec 2014


Audio, Film/TV (pls confirm)

Agent: Pippa Masson ([email protected])

Description: A sinister group code-named Zodiac has launched devastating global

attacks. Twelve targets across the world, twelve code-named missions. Operating

distinct sleeper cells, they are the ultimate terrorist organisation, watching and

waiting for a precise attack to activate the next group. It is a frightening and

deadly efficient way to stay one step ahead. And cause the most chaos.

For ex-CIA operative Jed Walker, chaos is his profession. On the outer, burned by his

former agency, he is determined to clear his name. Stopping Zodiac is the only

way. Desperate to catch the killers and find the mastermind, he can't afford to lose

the next lead, but that means that sometimes the terrorists have to win. Ultimately, it

all comes down to Walker: he's the only one who can break the chain and put the

group to sleep . . . permanently. It's exactly eighty-one hours until deadline.

'Jed Walker is right there in Reacher's rear-view mirror.'

Lee Child, international bestselling author.

JAMES PHELAN is a Melbourne-based writer. He has studied and taught writing at a post graduate level,

and has been a novelist since the age of 25. His first book was the author interview collection Literati:

Australian Contemporary Literary Figures Discuss Fear, Frustrations and Fame (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).

His Lachlan Fox thriller novels are Fox Hunt (Hachette, 2006), Patriot Act(2007), Blood Oil (2008), Liquid

Gold (2009), and Red Ice (2010). His Alone trilogy of Young Adult post-apocalyptic novels are

titled Chasers (Hachette, 2010), Survivor (2011) and Quarantine (2011).

James has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines, having worked at The Age from 2000-

2006, and has contributed to short story anthologies and serialised novels, including: Picture

This (Penguin, 2010), Watchlist (Audible/Vanguard, 2010), and the Get Reading! anthology (2011).

His latest novels are a thriller introducing a new character, Jed Walker, The Spy (Hachette, 2013), and a

13-book Young Adult series The Last Thirteen (Scholastic, Sept 2013 and monthly in 2014).


http://www.jamesphelan.com.au/


| HISTORICAL TRUE CRIME | 416 pp | PAPERBACK |

THE PECULIAR CASE OF THE

ELECTRIC CONSTABLE Carol Baxter

The electrifying story of a criminal Quaker, a poisoned

mistress, and the dawn of the information age in Victorian

England.

Published by: Oneworld UK|Sep 2013

Rights available: Translation, Film/TV pls confirm


Description: John Tawell was a sincere Quaker but a sinning one. Convicted of

forgery, he was transported to Sydney, where he made a fortune. When he

returned home to England, he thought he would be welcomed, but he was

shunned. Then on New Year's Day 1845 Tawell boarded the train from Slough to

London Paddington. Soon, men arrived chasing a suspected murderer – but the

train had departed. The Great Western Railway was experimenting with a new-

fangled device, the electric telegraph, so a message was sent: a 'KWAKER' man

was on the run. The trial that followed became a sensation.

Told with narrative verve and rich in historical research, this is a delicious true tale of

murder and scientific revolution in Victorian England.

'A fascinating history, mystery and portrait of a complex contradictory man.'

Daily Mail

CAROL BAXTER is the prize-winning author of three popular histories with a criminal bent – An Irresistible

Temptation, Breaking the Bank and Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady – all of which have been

published to critical acclaim. Previously, she was General Editor of the Biographical Database of

Australia and, before that, Project Officer of the Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record, in

which roles she edited many records relating to convicts transported to Australia to serve out their

sentences. These helped her to discover the subjects for her tales of true crime. She is a Fellow of the

Society of Australian Genealogists and an adjunct lecturer at the University of New England (NSW). A

full-time writer and speaker, she lives in Sydney.


http://www.carolbaxter.com/


| CRIME/MYSTERY | 448 pp | PAPERBACK |

UNDERLAND Ed Chatterton

A cop from Liverpool might just be the only one who can

prevent a killing that would shock the world … The

second book in the D.I. Frank Keane series.

Published by: Random House|Aug 2013

Rights available: US, Audio, Film/TV


Description: At first glance, the horrifically bloody crime scene in suburban Liverpool

looks like a straightforward murder-suicide. The husband kills the wife and then

himself. Simple.

Or it would be if it wasn't for the dead couple's missing teenage son, Nicky.

With Nicky's holiday job on a Hollywood movie being shot in the city bringing

unwanted press attention, newly promoted DCI Frank Keane knows that time is

running out to find the missing boy. The only question is: is Nicky victim or killer?

When it comes, the answer is worse than anyone expects.

The deaths in Liverpool are just the start of a twisted international killing spree by an

ambitious psychopath with a point to prove.

As the odds, and the stakes, stack up, Keane has no option but to mount an

unorthodox operation on unfamiliar and dangerous territory.

MARTIN CHATTERON has been writing and illustrating books since 1983. His work has been sold

around the globe, from China to the US. He has illustrated well over a hundred books as well as

writing more than twenty of his own. In 2008 his book The Brain Finds A Leg was shortlisted for

the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. His children’s series called Mort has been published by

Random House, and a puzzle book called Find Santa’s Pants was released by Little Hare.

Martin’s first adult crime thriller as Ed Chatterton entitled, A Dark Place to Die was published by

Random House (and by Arrow, Random House UK). The second book in the D.I. Frank Keane

series, Underland, followed (released in the UK under the title Down Among the Dead Men).




SHALLOW BREATH Sara Foster

Set across five continents, Shallow Breath is a compelling

novel of dashed dreams and second chances. But most of

all it is a story about love, and what it really means to be

free.

Published by: Random House|Dec 2012


Audio, Film/TV


Description: Two years ago, Desi Priest made a horrific mistake and destroyed her

family.

Now, she is coming home to make amends: to her daughter, Maya, who's nurturing

her own dangerous plan; to her brother, Jackson, who blames himself; and to her

close friend, Pete, who has spent years shielding her from a devastating truth.

But as Desi returns to her beloved house by the ocean, there is a stranger waiting

for her. Someone who needs her help. Someone whose arrival will reveal a chain of

secrets hidden for over twenty years.

And one by one the family will be forced to confront the possibility that they have

somehow got things terribly, tragically wrong …

‘An engaging novel that is sure to haunt you, this is an absorbing read.’

Book’d Out

SARA FOSTER is the bestselling author of three psychological suspense novels. Her first novel, Come Back

to Me, was published in Australia in 2010 and reached the Sydney Morning Herald top ten Australian

bestsellers list, while Beneath the Shadows, reached No. 4 on the Australian Sunday Telegraph bestsellers

list in 2011, and was also published in the USA and Germany. Her third book, Shallow Breath, was

released at the end of 2012.

Sara lives in Western Australia with her husband and two young daughters. She divides her time

between writing, book editing and being a mum. Her passions include the natural world, photography

and travel.


http://www.sarafoster.com.au/


COMING SOON



ALREADY DEAD Jaye Ford

Jaye Ford's cracking crime fiction features ordinary

women in extraordinary and believable situations, asking

the viewer/reader 'What would YOU do?' Adrenalin-driven

with twists, turns and hot romance.

Published by: Random House|due out Sep 2014


Audio, Film/TV

Agent: Clare Forster ([email protected])

Description: Journalist Miranda Jack is finally attempting to move on from the death

of her husband by relocating up the coast with her young daughter, Zoe. Then a

single event changes everything.

On a Monday afternoon as she waits at traffic lights, a stranger jumps into her car

and points a gun at her chest.

Forced to drive at high speed up the motorway, Miranda listens to the frantic,

paranoid rants of Brendan Walsh, a man who claims he's being chased and that

they're both now running for their lives.

Two hours later her ordeal is over in the most shocking fashion. Miranda is safe but

she can't simply walk away – not without knowing the truth about that terrifying

drive.

As a journalist Miranda has always asked questions. But this time the questions are

dangerous – and the answers might get her killed.

Psychological thriller writer JAYE FORD is quickly making a name for herself in the crime genre with her

spine-tingling novels featuring gutsy female characters in Australian settings. Translated and published

around the world, Jaye’s novels, all published by Random House, include Beyond Fear (winner, Best

Debut and Reader’s Choice in the Davitt Awards), Scared Yet?, Blood Secret and Already Dead (due

out in September 2014).

Jaye is a former print, radio and television journalist and was Australia’s first female presenter of a live

national sports show. She later ran her own public relations business before turning to crime fiction.


http://www.jayefordauthor.com/


| ACTION THRILLER | 448 pp | PAPERBACK |

THE ALEXANDRIA CONNECTION Adrian d’Hagé

Nimbly weaving politics, history and science through a

rip-roaring plot, from Afghanistan to Washington, Sydney

to London, The Alexandria Connection is a spectacular

and stylish ride.

Published by: Michael Joseph, Penguin|due out Nov

2014

Rights available: Film/TV

Agent: Clare Forster ([email protected])

Description: In the shifting desert sands of Egypt, rumours abound of a lost papyrus

that will reveal the true purpose of the Pyramids of Giza.

Could these ancient monoliths be the source of a new kind of energy, one that

comes at no cost to the planet? CIA agent Curtis O’Connor and archaeologist

Aleta Weizman are determined to find out.

Close by, a shadowy and powerful group known as Pharos meets in Alexandria, its

membership a closely guarded secret. Its first order of business: to orchestrate

chaos on international financial markets with a series of spectacular terrorist attacks

on the world’s fossil-fuel supplies.

And in Cairo, amid the anarchy of Tahrir Square, thieves have broken into the

famed Museum of Antiquities and stolen one of the world’s priceless artifacts: the

mask of Tutankhamun. Is the audacious theft linked to the Pharos Group?

‘A fast-paced and thrilling read.’

West Australian

ADRIAN d’HAGÉ was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and the Royal Military College

Duntroon. His military service included command of an infantry battalion, director of joint operations

and Head of Defence Public Relations. In 1994 Adrian was made a Member of the Order of Australia. As

a Brigadier, he headed Defence planning for counter-terrorism security for the Sydney Olympics,

including security against chemical, biological and nuclear threats.

Adrian's literary career began with The Omega Scroll, introducing his character Curtis O’Connor. This

best-selling book was voted one of the top 50 books of the year, and has been published in ten

countries. The Beijing Conspiracy dealt with biological terrorism and what might happen if smallpox and

Ebola are genetically engineered. The Maya Codex explored an ancient document with a terrible

warning for civilisation. The Inca Prophecy sees Curtis O’Connor on the run from his own employer, the

CIA. The Alexandria Connection (forthcoming) also features Curtis O'Connor and the strong female

character, archaeologist Aleta Weizman.


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