Mills & Boon's crime and thriller series

I received information on a couple of my writers loops about Harlequin Mills & Boon's new crime and thriller series, Black Star Crime, scheduled to launch August 2008. In case you haven't heard about it yet, here are some details.

According to theBookseller.com, an e-zine providing daily updates on the British publishing industry, Harlequin Mills & Boon's Black Star Crimes will initially publish five titles every two months. The series will focus more on crime fiction than romantic suspense, which is a genre Mills & Boon is more closely associated with.

According to the news brief, in the United Kingdom, the crime and thriller market has increased by 70 percent. Does anyone know how that market has performed in the United States?

To read theBookseller.com article, click here.

Patricia