The Petrona Award 2017 - Submitted Entries

The Petrona Award team are meeting in a top secret location tomorrow to determine the shortlist for the Petrona Award 2017 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. The list below is all the books that were submitted. The shortlist - usually six titles - will be announced shortly after the meeting, and the winner will be announced at the CrimeFest Gala Dinner in Bristol on 20 May 2017.

What do you think should be on the shortlist?

Stefan Ahnhem - Victim Without a Face tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles
Steinar Bragi - The Ice Lands tr. Lorenza Garcia
Christoffer Carlsson - The Falling Detective tr. Michael Gallagher
Torkil Damhaug - Death By Water tr. Robert Ferguson
Torkil Damhaug - Fireraiser tr. Robert Ferguson
Kjell Eriksson - Stone Coffin tr. Ebba Segerberg
Karin Fossum - Hellfire tr. Kari Dickson
Friis & Kaaberbol - The Considerate Killer tr. Elisabeth Dyssegaard
Camilla Grebe - The Ice Beneath Her tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel
Lotte & Soren Hammer - The Vanished tr. Martin Aitken
Kati Hiekkapelto - The Exiled tr. David Hackston
Johanne Hildebrandt - The Unbroken Line of the Moon tr. Tara F Chace
Martin Holmen - Clinch tr. Henning Koch
Anne Holt - Beyond the Truth tr. Anne Bruce
Anne Holt - No Echo tr. Anne Bruce
Jorn Lier Horst - Ordeal tr. Anne Bruce
Steffen Jacobsen - Retribution tr. Charlotte Barslund
Jari Jarvela - The Girl and the Rat tr. Kristian London
Ragnar Jonasson - Blackout tr. Quentin Bates
Mari Jungstedt & Ruben Eliassen - A Darker Sky tr Paul Norlen
Mari Jungstedt - The Fourth Victim tr. Tiina Nunnally
Mons Kallentoft - Souls of Air tr. Neil Smith
Lars Kepler - Stalker tr. Neil Smith
Katja Kettu - The Midwife tr. David Hackston
Jonas Hassen Khemiri - Everything I Don't Remember tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles
Jesper Bugge Kold - Winter Men tr. K E Semmel
Camilla Lackberg - The Ice Child tr. Tiina Nunnally
Hans Olav Lahlum - Chameleon People tr. Kari Dickson
Leena Lehtolainen - Fatal Headwind tr. Owen F Witesman
Leena Lehtolainen - The Devil's Cubs tr. Jenni Salmi
Minna Lindgren - The Lavender Ladies Detective Agency: Death in Sunset Grove tr. Lola Rogers
Liza Marklund - The Final Word tr. Neil Smith
Simon Pasternak - Death Zones tr. Martin Aitken
Leif GW Persson - The Dying Detective tr. Neil Smith
Leif GW Persson - The Sword of Justice tr. Neil Smith
Agnes Ravatn - The Bird Tribunal tr. Rosie Hedger
Liselotte Roll - Good Girls Don't Tell tr. Ian Giles
Thomas Rydahl - The Hermit tr. K E Semmel
Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Why Did You Lie? tr. Victoria Cribb
Gunnar Staalesen - Where Roses Never Die tr. Don Bartlett
Viveca Sten - Closed Circles tr. Laura A Wideburg
Erik Axl Sund - The Crow Girl tr. Neil Smith
Gard Sveen - The Last Pilgrim tr. Steven T Murray
Antti Tuomainen - The Mine tr. David Hackston
Helene Tursten - Who Watcheth tr. Marlaine Delargy
Carl-Johan Vallgren - The Tunnel tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles
Kjell Westo - The Wednesday Club tr. Neil Smith
Joakim Zander - The Brother (apa The Believer) tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel