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Orion signs crime series from Bingham

23.02.11 | Graeme Neill

Orion has signed up a series of crime novels from author Harry Bingham, who
 has previously written fiction and non-fiction for HarperCollins.

Deputy publishing director Bill Massey made the deal for UK and Commonwealth rights in three crime novels through Bill Hamilton at A M Heath. The series will feature character DC Fiona Griffiths, described as "a young woman with a shadowy father, a mysterious illness, and a peculiar empathy for the dead".

Massey said: "Harry Bingham has always been a tremendously compelling storyteller and now he's come up with a crime series with genuinely bestselling potential. Fiona Griffiths is the most original character I've come across in years and I think readers are going to be completely beguiled by her."

The first title, Talking to the Dead, will be published in spring 2012.

• Graeme Neill
• Harry Bingham
• Orion
• Rights deal