Deal Announcement

Hannah Karena Jones's "bookish, Gen Z" cosy mystery debut is acquired by Crooked Lane!

HAZEL TURNER IS IN TOO DEEP is Hannah Karena Jones's debut, in which a laid-off mystery editor forced to take her teenage lifeguarding job back is thrust into a real-life whodunnit when she finds a dead body in her pool... Pitched as a bookish, Gen Z take on the character-led cosy mystery series like Finlay Donovan and Vera Wong, HAZEL TURNER IS IN TOO DEEP was sold in a World English deal to Faith Black Ross at Crooked Lane, for publication in summer 2027, by LBA's Hannah Schofield.