Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.
Foreign Rights
| Haylen Beck | HERE AND GONE (Crown) The children of a young mother driving across America in flight from an abusive husband are taken from her and seem to vanish. Film rights for HERE AND GONE sold to Random House Studio in conjunction with Meridian Entertainment |
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| Verus Domino HarperCollins DTV Metaixmio Volt Alexandra Yediot La Nave di Teseo Czarza Owca Presenca Herg Benet Salamandra Harvill Secker |
Brazil Czech Republic France Germany Greece Holland Hungary Israel Italy Poland Portugal Romania Spain U.K. |
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| LOST YOU [August 2019] (Crown) When a young boy goes missing, his desperate mother turns to the police. They manage to track down the kidnapper, but she refuses to release the boy, claiming that she is his mother. |
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| Verus Domino HarperCollins DTV Volt Yediot La Nave di Teseo Harvill Secker |
Brazil Czech Republic France Germany Holland Israel Italy U.K. |
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| William Boyle | GRAVESEND (Pegasus) The brother of a murder victim seeks venegeance against the killer, who is just released from prison. Set in Brooklyn. A U.K. Crime Writers' Association's New Blood Dagger Nominee. |
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| Rivages Polar Verlag Polis Minimum Fax No Exit Press |
France Germany Greece Italy U.K. |
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| THE LONELY WITNESS (Pegasus) A character-driven novel of murder and mayhem, involving a woman who lives a solitary life until she sees a man killed and, instead of calling the police, begins to track the killer. |
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| Gallmeister Polar Verlag No Exit Press |
France Germany U.K. |
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| A FRIEND IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF (Pegasus) In a disparate pairing, two women in their 60's - the widow of a Mafia captain and an ex-porn star - join forces in some of the funniest and deadliest scenes in fiction. |
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| Beta Gallmeister Polar Verlag Bungeishunju Wizard Media Limited No Exit Press |
Czech Republic France Germany Japan Poland U.K. |
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| Tim Dorsey | Lovable psychopath Serge Storms and his sidekick Coleman cut a murderous path through the Sunshine State in twenty-two adventures (and counting) from the king of mayhem, New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey | |
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| Rivages - France AST - Russia Prelude Books - U.K. |
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| NO SUNSCREEN FOR THE DEAD (William Morrow) When Serge and Coleman go on an innocent quest to a retirement community to observe elders in their natural habitats and scope out a condo to live out the rest of their golden years, their journey soon becomes a Robin Hood-like crusade to recover the funds of swindled residents. |
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| Prelude Books | U.K. | |
| Jake Hinkson | DRY COUNTY [October 2019] (Pegasus) A Southern minister is driven to kill his blackmailer. |
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| Gallmeister | France | |
| Robert Jordan | WARRIOR OF THE ALTAII [October 2019] (Tor) Before his monumental WHEEL OF TIME series, Robert Jordan wrote a fantasy novel that has never been published - until now. |
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| Bragelonne Piper Verlag Luitingh-Sijthoff Fanucci Editore Zysk i s-ka Planeta Tor |
France Germany Holland Italy Poland Spain U.K. |
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| Eugenia Kim | THE KINSHIP OF SECRETS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) From the award-winning author of THE CALLIGRAPHER'S DAUGHTER, the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the U.S., the other in South Korea, and the family that kept them bound together even as the Korean War kept them apart. |
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| Bloomsbury |
U.K. |
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| Viet Thanh Nguyen |
THE SYMPATHIZER (Grove) A literary spy novel set in Saigon and Los Angeles. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the MWA Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Center for Fiction's Debut Novel Award. |
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| Arab Scientific Publishers Alfaguara Empuries Shanghai Translation Publishing Jota Belfond Karl Blessing Verlag Utopia Uitgeverij Marmer Alexandra Babel Neri Pozza Hayawaka Minumsa Tyto Alba NDSP Books Muza Elsinore - 20/20 Editura Art Corpus Laguna Absynt Planeta Tranan Marco Polo Press Epsilon Yayinlari Corsair Hemiro Ltd Nha Nam |
Arabic Brazil Catalan China Czech Republic France Germany Greece Holland Hungary Israel Italy Japan Korea Lithuania Myanmar Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Spain Sweden Taiwan Turkey U.K. Ukraine Vietnam |
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| THE REFUGEES (Grove) A short story collection. |
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| Arab Scientific Publishers Shanghai Translation Publishing Belfond Karl Blessing Verlag Uitgeverij Marmer Babel Neri Pozza SolumBokvennen Elsinore - 20/20 Editura Art Planeta Tranan Marco Polo Press Epsilon Yayinlari Corsair Phuong Nam |
Arabic China France Germany Holland Israel Italy Norway Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Taiwan Turkey U.K. Vietnam |
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| THE COMMITTED [forthcoming] (Grove) The sequel to the author's award-winning debut novel - which opens in Paris. |
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| Alfaguara/Companhia das Letras Belfond Karl Blessing Verlag Neri Pozza Hayakawa Elsinore: 20/20 Corsair |
Brazil France Germany Italy Japan Portugal U.K. |
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| Brian Panowich | BULL MOUNTAIN (Putnam) A multi-generational story of a violent criminal family in rural Georgia in this novel and its sequel. Film rights optioned by ITV. |
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| Shanghai Translation Publishing Actes Sud Suhrkamp NN Editore Siruela Head of Zeus |
China France Germany Italy Spain U.K. |
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| LIKE LIONS [sequel] (St. Martin's) | ||
| Shanghai Translation Publishing Actes Sud Suhrkamp NN Editore Head of Zeus |
China France Germany Italy U.K. |
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| YEAR OF THE ROOSTER [Winter 2020] (St. Martin's) The stakes are huge in the violent world of cockfights, and when a child stumbles upon a way to beat the system, he becomes the target of men who will stop at nothing to win. |
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| Richard Russo | CHANCES ARE... [Summer 2019] (Knopf) A new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings together three old friends to delve into the disappearance of the woman they all loved. |
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| Host La Table Ronde Dumont Verlag Signatuur/Bruna Neri Pozza Phantom Press Alfaguara Allen + Unwin |
Czech Republic France Germany Holland Italy Russia Spain U.K. |
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| Dan Stout | TITANSHADE (DAW) A highly imaginative fantasy noir novel that follows Detective Carter, a cop searching for a killer in a city full of strange creatures and corruption. |
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| TITAN'S DAY [sequel, forthcoming] (DAW) Detective Carter returns to the streets of Titanshade to find a killer before more lives are lost. |
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| Peter Swanson | THE KIND WORTH KILLING (William Morrow) A twisty tale involving two psychopathic women who know how to get away with murder. U.K. Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger nominee. A Richard & Judy selection and an international bestseller. |
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Globo Bard Ara Llibres Chinese Friendship Publishing Znanje Paseka Anton & Ludwig Paikese Kirjastus Calmann-Levy Blanvalet Dioptra Publishing Cargo/De Bezige Bij GeneralPress Dani Books Einaudi Tokyo Sogensha Purunsoop Kontinent Alma Littera Ltd. Sakam Knigi Cappelen Damm Marginesy Presenca Litera Byblos Ltd. Laguna Aktuell Planeta Southside Stories Eurasian Jamsai Altin Kitaplar Faber & Faber |
Brazil Bulgaria Catalan China Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France Germany Greece Holland Hungary Israel Italy Japan Korea Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Spain Sweden Taiwan Thailand Turkey U.K. |
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| BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM (William Morrow) What starts with a neighborly dinner invitation spirals into madness and obsession that can only end in murder. |
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| Bookmedia Gallmeister Blanvalet Dani Books Einaudi Tokyo Sogensha Prunsoop Cappelen Damm Yabanci Yayinlari Faber & Faber |
Czech Republic France Germany Israel Italy Japan Korea Norway Turkey U.K. |
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| EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS [forthcoming] (William Morrow) A bookseller finds himself in danger when a killer starts using the shopkeeper's list of fiction's most unsolvable murders as a blueprint for violence. |
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| Cappelen Damm Faber & Faber |
Norway U.K. |
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