Headline has signed a further two-book cosy crime deal with author Glenda Young.

Fiction editor Clare Foss acquired world English language rights to Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel and another book from Caroline Sheldon at the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency, and the first book will be published in 2025.

The Scarborough-based cosy crime series, featuring Helen Dexter and her greyhound Suki, was shortlisted for the New Kid on the Block Award for Best New Series in the Dead Good Reader Awards 2022.

Sheldon said: “Readers will be happy to join Helen and the loved greyhound Suki on two more adventures in the beautiful seaside setting of Scarborough. ’Woman’s Hour’ described Glenda Young’s novels as having ’female characters right at the heart’, and Helen absolutely ticks that box.”

Young added: “I’m over the moon to have signed another cosy crime contract with Headline. I can’t wait to write again about my fantastic amateur sleuth Helen Dexter and the atmospheric Seaview Hotel in Scarborough. I’d like to thank Headline for all their support and confidence in me.”

Foss said: “Glenda is a wonderful storyteller, whose keen eye for detail and warm sense of humour bring her characters to life, and it’s clear that Scarborough is her ’happy place’.”

As well as crafting crime novels, Young is also the author of eight sagas, all of which have been published by Headline. The Toffee Factory Girls, the first in a new trilogy set in a Durham toffee factory during the First World War, will be published in 2024.