New Releases - December 2025

I'm still a bit behind but here is what I've got on my database for December 2025. January 2026 will follow soon. I am currently working on February 2026.  

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Further to my post about writers of colour and the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, I have identified the writers of colour (that I know of) with a *** 

 

Ace, Cathy - The Case of the Devious Daughter #12 A Wise Enquiries Agency Mystery
Adams, Jane - Murder at the Folly #11 Rina Martin, Actress
Ashkanani, Tariq - The Night Watcher #1 Callie Munro ***
Atkinson, Heather - The Wolf (ebook only) #5 Raven
Baker, Ruth - The Mystery of the Christmas Mince Pies #4 Lady Mildred Ramsay, 1920s
Bassett, Isabella - A Cup Full of Poison #10 Lady Caroline, 1920s
Beckham, Bruce - Murder on the Menu #26 Detective Inspector Skelgill
Berry, Connie - A Grave Deception #6 Kate Hamilton, American antiques dealer
Blake, David - Blackfleet Broad #14 DCI Tanner, Norfolk
Briggs, J C - The Prisoner of Raven's Gaze Hall #4 Gothic House Mystery
Bright, Verity - Murder on a Frosty Night #24 Lady Eleanor Swift, 1920s
Brookes, Dawn - Cruise Fountain Finale #15 Rachel Prince
Brown, Benedict - The Yacht Party
Burke, Darcy - A Whisper of Secrecy #5 Raven & Wren
Carson, John - When Devils Dance With Saints #8 DCI James Craig
Carter, A J - Make Him Leave
Clarke, Georgina - A Kiss from the Devil #4 Lizzie Hardwicke, 1759
Conroy, Vivian - Trouble in the Alps #6 Miss Ashford
Dams, Jeanne M - Terror on the Train #27 Dorothy Martin
Dawson, Mark - Clearwater #26 John Milton
Ellis, Emmy - Random #47 Cardigan Estate
Enright, Robert - A Rush Of Blood #4 DS Jack Townsend
Field, David - The Footlights Murder #12 Esther and Jack Enright
Fitzek, Sebastian - Mimik tr. Jamie Bulloch
Ford, P F - Another Victim (ebook only) #2 Burnham Files
Ford, P F - The Letter (ebook only) #3 Burnham Files
Fowler, Deborah - Missing in St Ives #3 St Ives Mysteries
Galloway, K T - The Final Course #14 O'Malley & Swift
Gatland, Jack - Silver and the Christmas Caper #2 Sebastian Silver
Gatland Jack - His Dead Man's Hand #24 DI Declan Walsh
Giles, Stewart - The Spider #36 DS Jason Smith
Godden, Gillian - The Don #6 The Lambrianus
Golden, Helen - Nobbled at Christmas #14 A Right Royal Cozy Investigation Mystery
Golding, Julia - The Austen Intrigue #4 Regency Secrets
Handley, P L - Death on Barmouth Bridge #5 Nesta Griffiths
Harper, Izzie - Murder at the Christmas Panto #2 Canterbury Mystery
Hathaway, L B - Murder at the Silver Shoes Jazz Club #17 Posie Parker, 1920s
Hicks, Andrea - The Locket Code (ebook only) #2 Ottilie Divine
Higgs, Steve - Old Score to Settle #5 Albert Smith
Hood, D K - Watch Over Me #28 Detectives Kane and Alton
Hurst, Daniel - If He Finds Us (ebook only) #1 Shocking Standalone Short Story Series
Hurst, Daniel - The Body (ebook only) #2 Shocking Standalone Short Story Series
Hurst Daniel - He's My Man (ebook only) #3 Shocking Standalone Short Story Series
Jacobs,  Alina - Peppermint and Poison #4 Christmas in Harrogate
James, Ed - Cuts Both Ways #9 DI Rob Marshall
Kirk, JD - First Among the Dead - Constable Tyler Neish Novella
Kovach, Carla - Their Deadly Truth #18 Detective Gina Harte
Leather, Stephen - Recall: The Man Who Forgot Who He Was
Lynott, R K - Bury the Truth #1 DI Ryan Hale, Chesterfield, Derbys
Mark, David - After the Weeping #14 Detective Sergeant McAvoy of Humberside CID
Mason, Kelly - Poisoned in the Pavilion #7 Lady Ellen Investigates, 1920s
Masters, S R - The Drop
Menuhin, Karen Baugh - The Mystery of the Missing Man #16 Heathcliff Lennox Investigates
Mitchell, Dreda - Say Guilt and Innocence #4 Love and Hate ***
Organ, Emily - The Hyde Park Murder #11 Augusta Peel, 1920s
Penny, David - A Surfeit of Grief #5 Thomas Berrington, Ludlow, Tudor Era
Probyn, Jack - Noughts & Crosses #4 DI Stephanie Broadbent
Pugh,  Hilary - Trouble at Sunny Dell #2 Proudfoot and Handy
Queen, Emily - A Case of Luck & Death #13 Mrs. Lillywhite, 1920s
Randle, V J - Seven Bodies
Rawlins, CM - Death in a Treehouse #9 Maeve Morgan, Scotland, 1920s
Reeves, S A - A Woman in the Weir #5 The Bookshop Mysteries
Rosenberg, Kenneth - Budapest is Burning #6 Nathan Grant
Saywack, Shiv - Death on the Thames #2 Alexandra Raven, 1950
Shapiro, Irina - The Invite
Simpson, Carla - Deadly Revenge #15 Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe, Victorian London
Sinclair, Rob - Burning State #14 James Ryker
Skinner, P J - Poison Politics #11 Seacastle Mystery
Smith, Philip Anthony - The Silent Daughter
Speechley, Ruby - The Daughter You Left
Stratmann, Linda - Sherlock Holmes and the Widow's Key #10 Early Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Strauss, Lee - Murder at the Maharaja's Courts #28 Ginger Gold, 1920s
Strike, Ella - The Twelve Lies of Christmas #4 Kitty Goring, 1920s
Sullivan, Tim - The Basket Case (ebook only) #3 DS Cross short story
Sutton, Ann - Murder Crashes the Christmas Wedding #14 Dodo Dorchester
Tallon, Emma - The Wife's Revenge #2 Capello Family
Unge, Christian - Blood Will Tell tr. George Goulding & Sarah De Senarclens #3 Dr Tekla Berg
Yarwood, Mark - And Then They Were Gone - DCI Peter Moone Novella
Yarwood-Lovett, Sarah - An Ambush of Tigers #7 Nell Ward
Zander-Howell, Peter - The Hospital Murders #5 David Adair,

New Releases - October and November 2025

I'm still behind but here is what I've got on my database for October - November 2025. It's a bit patchy, but I have gathered a more complete set of data for December 2025, which will follow shortly. 

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Further to my post about writers of colour and the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, I have identified the writers of colour (that I know of) with a *** 

 

Alderson, Jennifer S - Murder in the British Museum #2 Traveler's Tale of Murder
Alexander, Magda - A Murder in Trinity Lane #2 Lady Rosalynd and Wynterbourne
Alexander, Magda - The Case of the Stolen Christmas Angel (ebook only) #5 Kitty Worthington Cozy Capers
Alexander, Tasha - The Sisterhood #19 Lady Emily
Allan, Claire - People Don't Just Disappear
Atkinson, Heather - Fury
Baldwin, Ben - Code Dead #3 Sam Taylor
Beaton M C (with R W Green) - Sugar and Spite #36 Agatha Raisin, Retired PR person, Cotswolds
Bennett, S J - The Queen Who Came in from the Cold #5 The Queen
Binks, Millicent - Murder at the Scottish Ball #3 Opal Laplume
Brook, Lee - The Snow Globe Murders #24 West Yorkshire Crime
Brown, Benedict - Death on the Night Train to Verona #2 Lord Edgington Investigates Abroad
Brown, Benedict - The Alpine Christmas Mystery #3 Lord Edgington Investigates Abroad
Brown, Benedict - The Holly Village Murders #6 Marius Quin, 1920s
Cambridge, Colleen - Two Truths and a Murder #5 Phyllida Bright, housekeeper to Agatha Christie.
Cameron, Will - Murder at the Partick Bunhouse Café (ebook only) #4 DCI Mike Patterson
Chase, Clare - Mystery at Mistletoe Place #15 Eve Mallow, Saxford St Peter
Child, Lee and Andrew - Exit Strategy #30 Jack Reacher, ex MP, USA
Cleeves, Ann - The Killing Stones #9 Detective Jimmy Perez, Shetlands
Dawson, Mark - Exposure (ebook only) #10 Charlie Cooper
Dixon, Helena - Murder at Midwinter Farm #22 Miss Underhay
Ellis, Emmy - Recycle #45 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Emmy - Rapine #46 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Hannah - Artful Deceit #6 Lily Larkin
Enright, Robert - Night One - Sam Pope Novella
Ford, P F - The Scarecrow #1 The Nolan Cormac Files
Ford, P F - In the Beginning (ebook only) #1 Burnham Files
Ford, P F - A Body in the Forest #7 The West Wales Murder Mysteries
Forsyth, Frederick and Tony Kent - The Revenge of Odessa #2 Odessa
Gatward, David J - How Grimm Saved Christmas - DCI Harry Grimm Novella
Gatward, David J - Grave Omens #4 DI Gordy Haig
Giuliani, C P - The Man From Morocco #7 Tom Walsingham
Golden, Helen - A Husband is Hushed Up #2 Duchess of Stortford, 1890s
Greene, Morgan - The Carrier #4 Solomon Church
Greene, Morgan - The Widow #5 Solomon Church
Gustawsson, Johana - The Scars of Silence tr. David Warriner #2 Lidingö Mysteries
Hannah, Sophie - The Last Death of the Year: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery #6 Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard
Harper, Izzie - Murder at Bramhurst Chapel #1 Canterbury Mystery
Higgs, Steve - The Truth Will Out #3 DS Tony Heaton
Holland, Jane - The Spiritualist's Daughter #1 Savage and Cook, Victorian Era
Horst, Jorn Lier - The Lake tr. Anne Bruce #18 Chief Inspector William Wisting, Larvik
Hunter, Evie - Dirty Secrets #3 Frenchurch Falls
James, Ed - Our Debts to the Past #8 DI Rob Marshall
James, Peter - The Hawk Is Dead #22 Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, Brighton
Johnston, Anthony - The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail #4 Gwinny Tuffel, Dog sitter
Jonasson, Ragnar - Fadeout tr. Larissa Kyzer- Ari Thor prequel (novella)
Kelly, Vanessa - Murder at Donwell Abbey #2 Emma Knightley
Khan, Vaseem - Quantum of Menace ***
Kirk, JD - The Woman Downstairs
Lindqvist, John Ajvide - The Writing in the Water tr. Michael Meigs #1 Bloodstorm
Maslen, Andy - Goodbye Aziz (ebook only) - Novella
McDermid, Val - Silent Bones #8 Karen Pirie
McEwan, Lynne - The Winter Dead #6 DI Shona Oliver, Dumfries
McKenna, Clara - Murder at Cottonwood Creek #7 Stella and Lyndy, 1905
Menuhin, Karen Baugh - The Murder of Viscount Montcrief #15 Heathcliff Lennox Investigates
Middleton, Jo - Not Another Bloody Christmas #2 Anna
Mitchell, Dreda Say - Secrets and Lies #3 Love and Hate ***
Morris M S - The Raven's Call #10 DCI Tom Raven
Mukherjee, Abir - The Burning Grounds #6 Captain Sam Wyndham, Calcutta, 1919 ***
Pine, Alex - Cold Blooded Killer #6 DI James Walker, Cumbria
Pugh, Hilary - Buried in the Brambles #1 Proudfoot and Handy
Rämö, Satu - The Shadow of the Northern Lights tr. Kristian London #3 Detective Hildur Rúnarsdottir, West Coast of Iceland
Rawlins, CM - Death in a Red Suit #8 Maeve Morgan, Scotland, 1920s
Richards, J J - The Castle #5 DCI Walker, Lancashire
Richards, S J - Behind the Ivy #10 Ex-DCI Luke Sackville
Rose, Alex - The Threat
Russell, Alan - The Dead Detective
Sandler, Rosie - Murder Bears Fruit #4 The Gardener Mysteries
Scarr, Louisa - Broken House #3 PC Lucy Halliday
Sigurdardottir, Lilja - Black as Death tr. Lorenza Garcia #5 Arora
Sigurdardottir, Yrsa - The Wake tr. Victoria Cribb #2 Policeman Týr and forensic pathologist Iðunn
Speechley, Ruby - Stolen
Sten, Viveca - Hidden in Memories tr. Marlaine Delargy #3 The Åre Murders
Stone, Alex - The Missing Boyfriend
Tuomainen, Antti - The Winter Job tr. David Hackston
Ward, Sarah - The Death Lesson #4 Mallory Dawson, Wales
Watson, Sue - Wanting Daisy Dead
Wilder, L G - Operation Mantis #2 Max Voronin
Williams, Lana - The Cursed Divination #5 Field & Greystone
Wood, Michael - Worse Than Murder #13 DCI Matilda Darke

The Petrona Award 2026 - Submissions welcome

The Petrona Award 2026 has now opened for submissions. If you have an eligible title and have not yet heard from me then please leave a comment below and I'll be in touch.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the 2026 Petrona Award the following rules apply to all submissions: 

The Award is for adult fiction only. 

The submission must be in translation and published in English in the UK during the preceding calendar year ie 1 January – 31 December 2025. 

The author of the submission must either be born in Scandinavia* or the submission must be set in Scandinavia*. 

The submission must have been published in its original language after 1999. 

 (E-books that meet the above criteria may be considered at the judges’ discretion (does not include self-published titles))

*in this instance taken to be Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Publishers must send a copy of the submission to each of the judges and the administrator. 

More than one submission per author can be made. 

There is no fee for entering a submission for the Petrona. 

All submissions must be received by 6 March 2026. 

The publisher agrees to receive the trophy on behalf of the winning author and to arrange for subsequent delivery to the winning author.  (new for 2026)

Favourites of 2025

A belated welcome to the blog in 2026. As you can see from my Goodreads montage below I did not have a great reading year in 2025, in terms of quantity. As I've alluded to, circumstances at home have not been conducive to reading, and so I turned to children's books in the main to keep me going. I'm hoping this year will see a return to form!

What I have been enjoying enormously are the British Library Crime Classics. Three of my top reads were their reissues of Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand, The Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson and very recently Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth (I hope we see more of hers reprinted).

Another top read (listen) was A Death in Damonds by S J Bennett read by Samantha Bond. I'm only a couple of weeks away from getting the next book on the series via the library's Borrowbox app.

It's a long way off but I'm really looking forward to the new Marple story by Lucy Foley: Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel.

Also, please note, the Petrona 2026 will be opening for business shortly. 

Euro Crime's read-in-2025 

Eurocrime's favorite books »

New Releases - August and September 2025

I've got behind again so in an effort to [begin the] catch-up here is what I've got on my database for August to September. 

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Further to my post about writers of colour and the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, I have identified the writers of colour (that I know of) with a *** 

 

Anthology - Birds, Strangers and Psychos (ed. Maxim Jakubowski)
Anthology - CrimeFest: Leaving the Scene (ed. Adrian Muller)
Anthology - A Right Cozy Historical Crime (ed. Wendy H Jones)
Addison, Margaret - A Death in Kingsley Square #13 Rose Simpson
Archer, Jeffrey - End Game #8 Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick
Armitage, Richard - The Cut
Atkinson, Heather - Twisted (ebook only) #7 Blagger's Code
Austin, Stephanie - How to Get Murdered in Devon #9 Juno Browne
Banville, John - Venetian Vespers
Barnett, Tam - How to Read a Killer's Mind
Barrettt, Andrew - The Colour of Fury #4 DS Regan Carter
Baskerville, B - Dark Rock #1 Spencer Bly
Braithwaite, Oyinkan - Cursed Daughters ***
Bright, Verity - Murder at the Royal Palace #23 Lady Eleanor Swift, 1920s
Britton, Anna - Left in the Ashes #3 Detectives Martin & Stern
Clements, Rory - Evil in High Places
Craven, M W - The Final Vow #7 Washington Poe
Critchlow, Heather - Unknown #4 Cal Lovett Files
Dalgliesh, J M - Death at Neist Point #6 DI Duncan McAdam, Isle of Skye
Day, Becca - The Secret at Number 7
Day, Elizabeth - One of Us
Dean, John - Murder in the Pennines #12 Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harris
Delvey, Robyn - The Bait #2 Eve Wren
D’Silva, Renita - Two Perfect Couples ***
Dunn, Matt - The Armchair Detectives #1 The Armchair Detective Mysteries
Dunnett, Gregg - Deep Blue Lies
Edwards, Martin - Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
Ellis, Emmy - Resent #43 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Emmy - Rioted #44 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Hannah - The Sunken Truth #5 Lily Larkin
Ellis, Joy - Black Notice #11 DI Rowan Jackman & DS Maria Evans, Lincolnshire
Ellis, Kate - Deadly Remains #29 Wesley Peterson (policeman) and Neil Watson (archaeologist), Tradmouth, Devon
Evans, Matthew J - One Dark Thought #4 Chichester Crime
Falco, Michael - Murder in an Italian Piazza #3 Bria Bartolucci, Positano, Italy
Fields, Helen - Watching You #3 Dr Connie Woolwine
Finch, Paul - The Island
Francis, Felix - Dark Horse
Frankland, Maria - The Wife I Was
Galbraith, Robert - The Hallmarked Man #8 Cormoran Strike
Gatland, Jack - Silver and the Sunday Cypher #1 Sebastian Silver
Gatward, David J - Bad Deeds #21 DCI Harry Grimm
Gayle, Katie - Murder in the Winter Woods #8 Julia Bird, Cotswolds
George, Elizabeth - A Slowly Dying Cause #22 Inspector Thomas Lynley & Sergeant Barbara Havers
Giles, Stewart - The Optician #35 DS Jason Smith
Gleason, Colleen - Lady Darling Inquires After a Killer #1 Lady Darling, Victorian Era
Greig, Andrew James - Murder of Crows #3 DI James Corstophine
Guðlaugsdóttir, Guðrún - A Lethal Legacy tr. Quentin Bates #5 Alma Jónsdóttir, Journalist
> Gunnis, Emily - A Child in the Storm Hawkswood, Sarah - Feast for the Ravens #13 Bradecote and Catchpoll, Worcestershire, C12
Herron, Mick - Clown Town #9 Slough House
Hodges, David - Deceiver on the Levels #15 DC Kate Hamblin
Hurst, Daniel - The Ex Who Came Back
Indridason, Arnaldur - The Quiet Mother tr. Philip Roughton #3 Detective Konrad
Jakeman, Jo - The Vanishing Act
Jenkins, Victoria - It's Me or Her
Johnson, Maureen and Jay Cooper - You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder
Jonasson, Ragnar - The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer tr. Victoria Cribb #2 Helgi
Kay, Adam - A Particularly Nasty Case
Lancaster, Julie - Remember Where You've Buried the Bodies
Leadbeater, David - The Diamond Hunters 37 Matt Drake
Lloyd, Catherine - Miss Morton and the Missing Heir #4 Miss Morton, Regency England
McCleave, Simon - The Abersoch Killings #21 DI Ruth Hunter
MacDonald, Dee - A Very Bookish Murder #3 Ally McKinley
McLean, Rachel and Joel Hames - The Port #7 Cumbria Crime
Mahadevan, Rupa - Nine Dolls ***
Marsons, Angela - Little Children #22 DI Kim Stone
Marston, Edward - Murder on the Great Northern Railway #24 Det. Insp Colbeck, Scotland Yard, mid 19th Century
Mason, Kelly - The Reckless Reporter #6 Lady Ellen Investigates, 1920s
Mead, Tom - The House at Devil's Neck #4 Joseph Spector
Michallon, Clémence - Our Last Resort
Middleton, Lia - What the Wife Knew
Mitchell, Caroline - The Family at No. 1
Morton, Mandy - Six Tails at Midnight #15 The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency
Mosse, Greg - The French Bookshop Murder #1 French Village Mystery
Nesbo, Jo - Wolf Hour tr. Robert Ferguson
Norek, Olivier - The Winter Warriors tr. Nick Caistor
Osman, Richard - The Impossible Fortune #5 The Thursday Murder Club
Parks, Adele - Our Beautiful Mess
Penrose, Andrea - Murder at Somerset House #9 Wrexford & Sloane
Perry, Tasmina - Return to Paradise (ebook only)
Phifer, Helen - Gone in the Night #16 Detective Morgan Brookes
Probyn, Jack - The Bogeyman #2 DI Stephanie Broadbent
Probyn, Jack - The Burning Man #3 DI Stephanie Broadbent
Ramunno, Oriana - Smoke in Berlin tr. Antony Shugaar #2 Hugo Fischer
Rhodes, Kate - Deadman's Pool #8 DI Ben Kitto
Rhodes, Tyler - The Campsite Cadaver #1 Max's Campsite Mystery
Rubin, Gareth - The Waterfall
Ryan, OMJ - The Therapy Room
Salter, Michelle - Murder in Trafalgar Square #1 Fairbanks and Flynn
Seddon, Holly - 59 Minutes
Simpson, Carla - Deadly Murder #14 Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe, Victorian London
Smirnoff, Karin - The Girl with Ice in her Veins (Millennium VIII) tr. Sarah Death
Smith, Alexander McCall - In the Time of Five Pumpkins #26 Mma Ramotswe, PI, Botswana
Smith, Wilbur and Mark Chadbourn - House of Two Pharaohs #10 Ancient Egypt
Torrance, Gaynor - Death of the Eleven-Toed Man #2 Wye Valley Widows
Upson, Nicola - The Christmas Clue
Wallace, Freya - Dark Tides #2 DI Knox, Devon
Walter, B P - The Winter Visitor
Yokomizo, Seishi - Murder at the Black Cat Cafe tr. Bryan Karetnyk #7 Kosuke Kindaichi, PI
Young, Glenda - Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel #4 Helen Dexter, Scarborough

The Petrona Award 2025 - Winner

 

Winner of the Petrona Award 2025 announced

The winner of the Petrona Award 2025 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year is: 

THE CLUES IN THE FJORD by Satu Rämö translated from the Finnish by Kristian London and published by Zaffre.

Satu Rämö will receive a trophy, and both the author and translator will receive a cash prize.

The Petrona team would like to thank David Hicks for his sponsorship of the Petrona Award.

The judges’ statement on THE CLUES IN THE FJORD:

THE CLUES IN THE FJORD is a sophisticated and atmospheric police procedural with a pleasingly unpredictable dark and twisty plot, set against the backdrop of the raw and untamed beauty of rural Iceland. 

Providing the local detective with a Finnish side-kick allows the author to contrast Icelandic and Finnish traits, adding authenticity to an original story. The intriguing back-stories of both characters leave the reader anticipating the next instalments.

In the ever increasing Icelandic crime fiction scene, Satu Rämö has carved out a unique position between traditional mysteries and the darker end of crime fiction.

Statements from the winning author, translator and publisher:

Satu Rämö:

I am deeply honoured to receive this award, and I want to thank the jury and the organizers of the Petrona Award. I also want to acknowledge the incredible writers nominated alongside me. To be included among such talented writers is a reward in itself. Your words have inspired me a lot!

This award reminds me of a conversation I had with a reader, a ninety-five-year-old woman, who shared how the book, the first part in the Hildur crime book series, THE CLUES IN THE FJORD, made her feel. She told me that she knows she is getting very old but after reading this book, she hoped she would live long enough to read the sequel, to know what happened to the two little girls who got lost on their way from school. When the sequel came out, I sent it to her and called her after a few weeks. She was still as happy and joyful as last time, waiting for the next book in the series to come out...

It is the readers who keep stories alive. Thank you for reading. I want to thank you also, my British publisher Zaffre and my translator Kristian London. Great teamwork! Thank you jury from the bottom of my heart, this award means so much to me.

Kristian London:

When I first took on translating Satu Rämö’s THE CLUES IN THE FJORD, the book’s incredible success in Finland suggested it had a high chance of connecting with audiences abroad as well. I’m gratified to see this is the case. It has been a privilege to act as an intermediary between Rämö’s imagination and those of her English-speaking readers as they enter Hildur’s world of human quirks and foibles, familial traumas and inheritances. For me, the work’s slow power springs from its true protagonist: that isolated land in the North Atlantic that serves as the setting, and the terrain and culture and people we’re introduced to through an outsider’s keen eyes. Many thanks to the Petrona Award jury for this honor.

Kasim Mohammed (editor at Zaffre):

Being Satu's English-language publisher is a real honour. She has such an eye for crafting stories about real people, and a real heart to her writing that is hard to find these days. Bringing authors' dreams to life is a privilege and moments like this are wonderful to experience. To know Satu's work is resonating with so many readers, worldwide, brings the team here at Bonnier so much pride. Thank you to the Petrona Award jury for this honour - we will treasure this as we continue to publish Satu!  

The judges

Jackie Farrant - creator of RAVEN CRIME READS and a bookseller for a major book chain in the UK.

Ewa Sherman - translator and writer, and blogger at NORDIC LIGHTHOUSE.

Sonja van der Westhuizen - book critic for print and online publications in the UK and South Africa, as well as a blogger at WEST WORDS REVIEWS.

Award administrator

Karen Meek – owner of the EURO CRIME blog and website.

Further information can be found on the Petrona Award website.

On social media, please use #PetronaAward25.

Petrona Award 2025 - Update

With many apologies but due to unforeseen circumstances the winner of the Petrona Award 2025 will now be announced on 23 October 2025, rather than 16 October 2025.