Adult’s Fiction Rights Guide Fall 2021

- 1 3 - Haris Nikolopoulos is an ordinary thirty-something officer, who still lives with this mother and does routine work at the police department. Until for the first time, he is assigned to investigate a homicide, giving him the chance to become a detective… This will be the start of a life full of difficult cases, music and musings. Charis Nikolopoulos’ series is a riveting combination of mystery, music and everyday life in modern Greece. Guilty until proven innocent is the fourth novel of the best-selling series. For a fistful of vinyl albums (2011) | Germany: Groessenwahn Verlag They all have bad intentions (2013) The frequency of death (2016) | Shortlisted for the 2016 (de)kata Magazine Athens Prize for Literature Guilty until proven innocent (2021) Hilda Papadimitriou (b. 1957) studied Law, but was won over by music and literature. She was a record store owner for 20 years and is well known in Greece as the acclaimed translator of numerous books. Writer Ioannis Patrikios sees his career plummeting after his third book. With his inspiration gone, he starts seeing the psychiatrist Artemis Valental, who soon realizes that Patrikios is obsessed with writing a best seller focusing on a series of horrible deaths. When the police discover the body of a woman with the heart removed, Patrikios’ writer’s block dissolves and he starts writing frantically. Could there be a connection behind the gruesome murders? In their second case after Dark labyrinth (2018), Officer Tripi and her team will face the most disturbed serial killer of their careers. As the murders continue, they enter a dark tunnel of horror, without a trace of a ray of hope… Grigoris Azariadis was born in 1951. Deception is his fifth novel and he is a regular, acclaimed contributor in newspapers and sites with crime fiction critiques and critical essays. He loves the French school of crime, particularly polar and classic noir, Raymond Chandler, Jean- Patrick Manchette, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, as well as their contemporary Nordic literary descendants. A man threatens to jump from a hotel’s rooftop and lieutenant Kapetanos arrives at the scene to investigate. A stuffed jackal is discovered in the man’s room, and thus starts a conspiracy theory that nobody wants to believe is true. A killer that leaves stuffed animals as call cards, extremists infiltrating police forces, people working in the shadows… How is lieutenant Kapetanos to win, when the game was set by the enemy? Dimitris Simos was born in 1987. His debut crime novel Frogs won the first prize of the national novel competition Silver Page, and he was shortlisted for the Klepsydra’s Magazine Newcomer Award. He also works as a screenwriter and he is one of the most prominent new voices in Greek crime fiction. Also available Save me (2020) • Developed into a TV series | Best seller Pages 464 April 2021 Pages 456 June 2021 Pages 480 July 2020 - C R I M E F I C T I O N - Guilty until proven innocent Hilda Papadimitriou Ulysses’ death Dimitris Simos Deception Grigoris Azariadis