Publishers Weekly reports that Little, Brown has signed a new five-book deal with bestselling author Michael Connelly.
PW says Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch cut the deal with Philip Spitzer.
Connelly's current novel,
The Scarecrow, is garnering rave reviews from ciritics. You can see some of the reviews
here,
here,
here and
here. The setting for the novel is a dying newspaper, which is something journalists today are all too familiar with.
Michael Connelly's next book, Nine Dragons, will be released in October.