Monday, January 20, 2020

Award News: Petrona Award Entries 2020

I am pleased to announce that all the 37 titles that were eligible for the 2020 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year have been entered by the publishers.

The winner of the Award will be announced at CrimeFest in June.

The rules for eligibility are:
  • The submission must be in translation and published in English in the UK during the preceding calendar year ie 1 January – 31 December 2019.
  • 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.

More details about the award and the history behind it can be found on the Petrona Award website. The winner of the 2019 Award was The Katharina Code by Jørn Lier Horst, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce and published by Michael Joseph.

The award is sponsored by David Hicks.

Entries (ie published in 2019)

[13 titles are by Female authors, 24 by Male. There are 24 translators (13 Female (23 titles) and 11 Male (14 titles)) and 6 countries are represented.]

I have tagged these titles on Goodreads.

Jussi Adler-Olsen - The Washington Decree tr. Steve Schein (M, Denmark) Quercus
Stefan Ahnhem - Motive X tr. Agnes Broomé (M, Sweden) Head of Zeus
Heine Bakkeid - I Will Miss You Tomorrow tr. Anne Bruce (M, Norway) Raven Books
Mattias Berg - The Carrier tr. George Goulding (M, Sweden) MacLehose Press
Samuel Bjork - The Boy in the Headlights tr. Charlotte Barslund (M, Norway) Doubleday

Arne Dahl - Hunted tr. Neil Smith (M, Sweden) Harvill Secker
Kjell Ola Dahl - The Courier tr. Don Bartlett (M, Norway) Orenda Books

M T Edvardsson - A Nearly Normal Family tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (M, Sweden) Pan Macmillan
Thomas Enger - Inborn tr. Kari Dickson (M, Norway) Orenda Books

Agnete Friis - The Summer of Ellen tr. Sinead Quirke Kongerskov (F, Denmark)Soho Press

Camilla Grebe - After She's Gone tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (F, Sweden) Zaffre
Johana Gustawsson - Blood Song tr. David Warriner (F, France) Orenda Books

Anne Holt - A Grave for Two tr. Anne Bruce (F, Norway) Corvus
Jørn Lier Horst - The Cabin tr. Anne Bruce (M, Norway) Anne Bruce

Stina Jackson - The Silver Road tr. Susan Beard (F, Sweden) Corvus
Ragnar Jonasson - The Island tr. Victoria Cribb (M, Iceland) Penguin

David Lagercrantz - The Girl Who Lived Twice tr. George Goulding (M, Sweden) MacLehose Press
Leena Lehtolainen - Where Have All the Young Girls Gone tr. Owen F Witesman (F, Finland) AmazonCrossing
Mariette Lindstein - The Cult on Fog Island tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (F, Sweden) HQ

Stefan Malmström - Kult tr. Suzanne Martin Cheadle (M, Sweden) Silvertail Books
Niklas Natt och Dag - The Wolf and the Watchman tr. Ebba Segerberg (M, Sweden) John Murray
Jo Nesbo - Knife tr. Neil Smith (M, Norway) Harvill Secker
Mads Peder Nordbo - The Girl Without Skin tr. Charlotte Barslund (M, Denmark) Text Publishing
Mads Peder Nordbo - Cold Fear tr. Charlotte Barslund (M, Denmark) Text Publishing
Andreas Norman - The Silent War tr. Ian Giles (M, Sweden) riverrun

Kristina Ohlsson - The Flood tr. Marlaine Delargy (F, Sweden) Simon & Schuster
Martin Osterdahl - Ten Swedes Must Die tr. Peter Sean Woltemade (M, Sweden) AmazonCrossing

Roslund & Hellstrom - Three Hours tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (M, Sweden) riverrun

Lilja Sigurdardottir - Cage tr. Quentin Bates (F, Iceland) Orenda Books
Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Absolution tr. Victoria Cribb (F, Iceland) Hodder & Stoughton
Gunnar Staalesen - Wolves at the Door tr. Don Bartlett (M, Norway) Orenda Books
Viveca Sten - In the Shadow of Power tr. Marlaine Delargy (F, Sweden) AmazonCrossing
Soren Sveistrup - The Chestnut Man tr. Caroline Waight (M, Denmark) Michael Joseph

Antti Tuomainen - Little Siberia tr. David Hackston (M, Finland) Orenda Books
Helene Tursten - Hunting Game tr. Paul Norlen (F, Sweden) Soho Press
Helene Tursten - Winter Grave tr. Marlaine Delargy (F, Sweden) Soho Press

Joakim Zander - The Friend tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (M, Sweden) Head of Zeus


Monday, January 13, 2020

New Releases - January 2020

And we're back. Please see previous post for reasons why things have been quiet around here. Thank you for the many kind messages and continuing to visit Euro Crime. Let's hope for a better year in 2020!

Here's the latest in my regular feature, of monthly releases. It looks like a bumper month.
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Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in January 2020 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). January and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.
• Abbott, Rachel - Right Behind You #9 DI Tom Douglas
• Adams, Jane - The Good Wife #5 Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone, 1928
• Airth, Rennie - Cold Kill
• Airth, Rennie - The Decent Inn of Death #6 John Madden, Scotland Yard Policeman, Southern Counties, early 20th Century
• Alderson, Sarah - In Her Eyes
• Alexander, Tasha - In the Shadow of Vesuvius #14 Lady Emily
• Bayard, Tania - In the Company of Fools #3 Christine De Pizan Mystery
• Beevis, Keri - Deep Dark Secrets
• Black, Benjamin - The Secret Guests (as B W Black)
• Black, P R - The Beach House
• Blake, Sam - Keep Your Eyes on Me
• Bridgestock, R C - Payback #1 DI Charley Mann, Yorkshire
• Brittany, Amanda - Traces of Her
• Brooke, Amanda - The Widows' Club
• Bryndza, Robert - Nine Elms #1 Kate Marshall
• Buckley, Fiona - The Scent of Danger #18 Ursula Blanchard, an Elizabethan lady
• Bugler, Sheila - I Could Be You #1 Dee Doran, ex Journalist
• Burrows, Nathan - Finding Milly
• Carpenter, Elisabeth - The Woman Downstairs
• Carson, John - Dead Before You Die #3 DCI Harry McNeil
• Carter, J P - Little Boy Lost #3 DCI Anna Tate
• Castle, A M - The Perfect Widow
• Caves, S B - A Killer Came Knocking
• Chambers, Kimberley - Queenie
• Chase, Clare - Mystery on Hidden Lane #1 Eve Mallow, Saxford St Peter
• Clements, Rory - Hitler's Secret #4 Thomas Wilde, 1930s
• Comley, M A & Farrar, M K - Down to Sleep #2 Crime After Crime
• Curtis, Gayle - I Choose You
• Diamond, Katerina - Woman in the Water #6 DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles
• Douglas-Home, Mark - The Driftwood Girls #4 Cal McGill, Oceanographer
• Eldridge, Jim - Murder at the Manchester Museum #4 Former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson
• Engberg, Katrine - The Tenant
• Frost, Abbie - The Guesthouse
• Grant, Andrew - Too Close to Home #2 Paul McGrath
• Hamdy, Adam - Black 13 #1 Scott Pearce
• Hannah, Sophie - Haven't They Grown
• Herron, Mick - The Catch #2 Slough House Novella
• Holton, Noelle - Dead Wrong #2 DC Maggie Jamieson
• Hunter, Cara - All the Rage #4 DI Adam Fawley, Oxford
• James, Alison - The Man She Married
• James, Ed - Tell Me Lies #1 Detective Max Carter
• Johnstone, Doug - A Dark Matter #1 Skelfs family
• Kara, Lesley - Who Did You Tell?
• Keane, Jessie - The Knock
• Kelleher, Casey - Mine
• Leather, Stephen - The Runner
• Lee, Lynne - Can You See Me?
• Linskey, Howard - Alice Teale is Missing
• Lloyd, Catherine - Death Comes to the Nursery #7 Kurland St. Mary Mysteries
• Louth, Nick - The Body in the Snow #4 DCI Craig Gillard
• Lupton, Rosamund - Three Hours
• MacDonald, C C - Happy Ever After
• May, Peter - A Silent Death
• Michaels, Sam - Rivals #2 Georgina Garrett
• Mitchell, Caroline - The Perfect Mother
• Monroe, J S - The Other You
• Mundy, Elizabeth - A Messy Affair #3 Lena Szarka, Hungarian cleaner, London
• Oldham, Nick - Wildfire #24 DCI Christie
• Onda, Riku - The Aosawa Murders
• Paris, B A - The Dilemma
• Reid, Rebecca - Truth Hurts
• Riches, Marnie - Backlash
• Rogers, Gemma - Payback
• Rowland, Laura Joh - The Woman in the Veil #4 Miss Sarah Bain, Victorian Era
• Sanderson, Lesley - The Leaving Party
• Savage, Vanessa - The Woods
• Scanlon, Michael - Her Last Goodnight #3 Detective Finnegan Beck
• Scragg, Robert - All That is Buried #3 Porter & Styles, Police Officers
• Sedgwick, Helen - When the Dead Come Calling #1 Burrowhead Mystery
• Seymour, Gerald - Beyond Recall
• Sinclair, Rob - The Rules of Murder #2 DI Dani Stephens
• Spain, Jo - Six Wicked Reasons
• Speechley, Ruby - Someone Else's Baby
• Stanley, Michael - Facets of Death #7 Detective Kubu, Botswana
• Steadman, Catherine - Mr Nobody
• Stein, Jesper - Die For Me #2 Axel Steen
• Teague, Paul J - Truth Be Told #3 Morecambe Bay Trilogy
• Tudor, C J - The Other People
• Warner, H C - She
• Watts, Kerry - Her Secret Past #3 Detective Jessie Blake
• Weatherley, Anna-Lou - The Stranger's Wife
• Young, David - Stasi Winter #5 Oberleutnant Karin Müller