Deals

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)

Sal Scognamillo’s PATSY’S ITALIAN FAMILY COOKBOOK with recipes for delicious meals seasoned with a ‘dash’ of stories about and from the many legendary celebrities who’ve dined there, from Frank Sinatra to Ben Stiller and George Clooney, to Elizabeth Beier at St. Martin Press in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates.(world)

Author of In Need of a Good Wife and The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Kelly O’Connor McNees’ ISLAND OF THE DOVES the story of a wife’s escape to Mackinac Island by steamship in 1835 and the wealthy fur-trader’s widow who offers safe haven from the monstrous husband who pursues her to Claire Zion at Berkley by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Carolyn Dingman’s CANCEL THE WEDDING tells the story of Olivia a woman unwilling to commit to her fiancé who travels to the small town in Georgia where her mother wanted her ashes to be laid to rest, and in taking this trip learns the details of a tragic past her mother kept from her daughters and unexpectedly meets a man who helps her decide just how she wants to spend the rest of her life to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)

Thomas Christopher Greene’s THE HEADMASTERS WIFE the story of a Headmaster at an elite private school in New England whose life spirals out of control as his memories collapse into one another in this haunting psychological novel in a in a very nice deal preempt to Thomas Dunne at Thomas Dunne Books by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)

Thrity Umrigar’s I BEGINS by the best-selling author of The Space Between Us, tells the story of the improbable friendship between an Indian immigrant woman caught in a loveless marriage and the African-American therapist who helps her find her voice and independence to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)

Masha Hamilton’s fifth novel, THE ENGAGEMENT OF STRANGERS, in which a phone call to a wife reporting that her husband has been kidnapped in Afghanistan, sets in motion a swirl of events here and abroad, placing her at odds with her stepdaughter, sending her into the streets of her Brooklyn neighborhood, where she connects to a wider world of survivors, which ultimately transforms her as she becomes able to set aside an old grief and rebuild her ability to find hope to Fred Ramey at Unbridled Books by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Simon Tolkien’s ORDERS FROM BERLIN, opening in September 1940 as bombs rain on London and the country braces for invasion, with only Churchill’s bulldog defiance standing in Hitler’s way while a plot develops to assassinate Churchill and Detective Trave finds himself in a race against time to uncover the assassin before he receives his final orders from Berlin, to Peter Wolverton at Thomas Dunne Books, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Author of the best-selling memoir The Kabul Beauty School Deborah Rodriquez’s THE HOUSE AT CARNAVAL STREET, an intimate account of her journey to remake her life after being forced to leave Afghanistan, as she struggles to learn once more to celebrate life and embrace the hairdresser within among the colorful neighbors in her new home on the Mexican west coast, to Karen Kosztolnyik at Gallery, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English).

Laura L. McNeal’s DOLLBABY, a debut novel pitched as in the tradition of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, set in 1964, in which a girl from the Pacific Northwest visits her estranged grandmother in New Orleans and meets Dollbaby, the maid who guides her through the ghosts of her grandmother’s past and the racial turmoil that may tear the family apart, to Pamela Dorman at Pamela Dorman Books, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English).