Rachel Slatter

Senior Commissioning Editor

Rachel is Severn House’s Senior Commissioning Editor – her second time in the company, having joined back in 2008 as a Junior Editor. She edits and acquires a wide range of genre fiction, from cosies and historical mysteries to urban fantasy and thrillers. If it’s page-turning, she wants to read it! Authors she works with include New York Times-bestsellers Wendy Corsi Staub, Simon R. Green and Barbara Hambly, and Sunday Times bestseller David Mark. She lives just outside London and enjoys cryptic crosswords, cake, and cats.

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Staff Picks

The Cry of the Hangman

Susanna Calkins

In Susanna Calkins’ latest seventeenth-century historical mystery, the sixth in the series, will printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion be publishing true accounts of murder – or starring in one?

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Rachel Slatter
Senior Commissioning Editor

“The Cry of the Hangman has a real corker of a mystery plot – twisty, accomplished and page-turning. If you like a complex puzzle that ties together neatly at the end, this is the book for you! I loved this book – and I’m excited for you to read it too.”

Scandal in Babylon

Barbara Hambly

Introducing young British widow Emma Blackstone: assistant to wildly popular movie star Kitty Flint . . . and reluctant amateur sleuth, in the first of a brand-new 1920s historical mystery series set in Hollywood's glamorous, hedonistic silent movie industry.

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Rachel Slatter
Senior Commissioning Editor

“All in all, this is a fantastic mystery and a great kick-off to a new series. I’d highly recommend it to fans of Barbara’s long-running Benjamin January mysteries and her James Asher vampire novels, as well as readers who enjoy female-fronted 1920s mysteries.”

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