In the first acquisition of the year, Hachette Livre has announced the purchase of a controlling interest in Nina Salter’s Editions des Deux Terres, founded in 2002. The line publishes a dozen books a year, focused on literature translated into French (by the likes of Kiran Desai, Julia Glass and Kazuo Ishiguro) and bestselling thrillers from Patricia Cornwell, Jeffery Deaver, Ruth Rendell and others. Hachette call is “an opportunity to strengthen its position in the crucial segment of quality fiction and thrillers.”