2009: THE PLOTS THICKEN …

The schedule of Lovesey titles in 2009 is one of the busiest ever:

JANUARY: The UK edition of Murder on the Short List, Peter’s latest short story collection, is published by Severn House. Among them is the winner of the 2007 Crime Writers Association Award, “Needle Match”. The US edition appeared in 2008 and is available from Crippen & Landru.

JUNE: Soho Press (USA) publish the first paperback edition of The Headhunters, “a thoroughly delightful detective story, old-fashioned in the way that reminds us why we started reading and loving mysteries in the first place … Try him. You’ll love him.” (Otto Penzler in The New York Sun)

JUNE: Soho Press (USA) publish new editions of two favourite Sergeant Cribb titles, Abracadaver and Mad Hatter’s Holiday. The first two in the Cribb series, Wobble to Death and The Detective Wore Silk Drawers, were issued in 2008.

AUGUST: Sphere, the UK imprint of Little, Brown, publish The Headhunters in paperback.

SEPTEMBER: Skeleton Hill, the new Peter Diamond novel, the tenth in this series set in Bath, is published in the UK by Sphere and in the US by Soho. The Peter Diamond series was optioned for television by ITV in 2008.