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Headline is planning a major push on a flurry of thriller titles over the next two years in a bid to cement its position within the genre.
The publisher lost James Patterson to Random House last year but plans to make its new signings the bestselling "brands of the future".
Recent acquisitions made include novels by Carol O'Connell, Suzanne Brockmann, Quintin Jardine and Andy McDermott, as well as Jonathan Kellerman earlier in the year.
Several of these deals are for more than one book and in the case of Brockman, Headline has also acquired a backlist of 15 titles.
Brockman has never been published before in the UK, but the publisher claimed it "will launch her career in 2009 with the same determination that saw Karen Rose rocket to bestsellerdom".
Launch plans for Brockman are being discussed with Headline's "major retail partners". Vicki Mellor, senior commissioning editor, said she had been a "huge fan" for a long time. "I have never really understood why Suzanne has not been published by a UK House."
Mellor added: "Headline's success with authors such as Karen Rose has taught us that it's possible to build an author's sales quickly, and making a multiple-book commitment is the first step to achieving this.
"We have every confidence that Suzanne will be as big a success in the UK as she is in the US."
Jardine, who is already published by Headline, is launching a new series having killed off his previous protagonist Oz Blackstone. Featuring Oz's estranged wife Primavera, Inhuman Remains is due out in February.
Mellor has also signed up four new titles from McDermott, the first of which is due out next year. Mellor said: "With this new contract, we now have eight books and are able to build strategically and rapidly to give Andy's fans the books they want."
Kellerman's True Detectives will be published as a £17.99 hardback in March. O'Connoll's Bone by Bone is to be published in hardback on 30th December, with a big marketing push to come in July for the B-format paperback.
In a separate deal, Martin Fletcher, publisher-at-large, struck a two-book deal at auction through agent Jim Gill for the first novels by historian Ian Mortimer, who will write as James Forrester. Set in the Elizabethan era, Mortimer's fictional début Sacred Treason will be -published in 2010.