QUARTEY GOES TO SOHO

DEALS

Publishers Marketplace – February 21, 2013 – Kwei Quartey’s MURDER AT CAPE THREE POINTS, a detective Darko mystery to Juliet Grames at Soho Press in a two book deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English)

That’s the official announcement heralding my new publisher, Soho Press. The first of the two novels in the deal will be MURDER AT CAPE THREE POINTS. The editing process will begin shortly and publication is targeted for March 2014. Not to worry, it will be 2014 before you realize.

Soho Press, founded in 1986 and located in the heart of downtown Manhattan (actually not very far from where I lived in New York), is an independent publisher of literary fiction. One of its imprints is Soho Crime, which publishes beautifully produced, culturally rich crime novels in settings all over the world. Almost all of the books are serial novels set in particular countries and/or cultures. This is Soho Crime’s specialty, making it a very good home for the Darko Dawson series.

Soho Crime’s long list of authors includes Cara Black, a bestselling writer known for her female, Paris-based private investigator, Aimée Léduc. Colin Cotterill, who lives in Southeast Asia, writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in Laos. In 2011, Soho Crime published the blockbuster The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis, whose Nina Borg series is set in Denmark. Stuart Neville‘s The Ghosts of Belfast won him the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Henry Chang‘s Jack Yu mystery series is set in New York’s Chinatown, where Chang grew up.

It’s gratifying to now have Detective Darko contributing to the rich mix of murder mystery settings that makes Soho Crime so special.