Why Brit crime fiction is paying international dividends
After the Scandi noir boom, dark tales from British authors are making waves abroad. Publishers, agents and authors take up the case
When ex-paramedic Daniel Cole signed with agent Sue Armstrong, he was “delighted”. When Armstrong bagged him a six-figure, three-book deal from a British publisher he was “in shock”.
But after a fierce fight between German publishers over his debut crime novel, Ragdoll, saw him signing for a record-breaking seven figures, Cole found himself among a group of British authors toppling Scandinavian writers from their perch at the summit of bestseller lists around the world. “I just couldn’t believe it,” he says. “I was delighted to get an agent after suffering loads of rejections, and then it just went crazy.”
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