Exclusive: Selected off the Black List\u2019s fiction site, crime thriller Then He Was Gone from Isabel Booth is set to be published early next year by Crooked Lane Books.<\/p>\n
The first book from the Black List\u2019s 2024 foray into chapter and verse to score a deal, the debut novel from the author will hit shelves and sites on February 24, 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really delighted to discover that The Black List existed; it has already been a valuable resource for me as an acquiring editor,\u201d said Crooked Lane editor Marcia Markland today of the two-decade and counting Franklin Leonard created site for scripts and so much more. \u201cImagine how excited I was when I found and read the manuscript of Then He Was Gone, one of the best thrillers I\u2019ve read in years. I suspect her work will be quickly snapped up by film producers as well. Move over, Harlan Coben<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Selected off the Black List\u2019s fiction site, crime thriller Then He Was Gone from Isabel Booth is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[6946,6947,489,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-78349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-directors","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-films","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}