New Releases - November and December 2020

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in paperback or hardback, in November and December 2020 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). 

If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.  

Anthology - Afraid Of The Christmas Lights

Anthology - The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories (ed. Maxim Jakubowski)  

Jane Adams - Old Sins #6 Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone, 1928

Margaret Addison - Murder on the Cornish Coast #10 Rose Simpson

Tim Adler - Dead Already

Rachel Amphlett - Blood on Snow #1 Detective Kay Hunter Novella

Lawrence Anholt - Festival of Death #2 DI Shanti Joyce & Vince Caine, the Mindful Detective

Tessa Arlen - Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers #2 Air Warden Mystery

Isabel Ashdown - 33 Women

Rob Aspinall - Chosen Girls (apa Homecoming)

Heather Atkinson - Blood Brothers #1 Gallowburn

Lisa Ballantyne - Once Upon a Lie

James Barrington - Cyberstrike: London (with professor Richard Benham) #1 Ben Morgan

Tom Benjamin - The Hunting Season #2 Daniel Leicester, Bologna

Simon Berthon - A Time to Lie

Helen Black - Hard as Nails #4 Liberty Chapman

Hilary Bonner - Cry Darkness

Roxanne Bouchard - The Coral Bride #2 Detective Moralès, Quebec

Graham Brack - The Noose's Shadow #4 Master Mercurius

Rebecca Bradley - See No Evil #7 DI Hannah Robbins

Gerard Brennan - Shot #1 DS Shannon McNulty

Simon Brett - Guilt at the Garage #20 Carole and Jude, Fethering, Southern coast of England

Vivien Brown - Be Careful What You Wish For

Sheryl Browne - Trust Me

Robert Bryndza - Shadow Sands #2 Kate Marshall

Susanna Calkins - The Sign of the Gallows #5 Lucy Campion, Chambermaid, 17thC

Sam Carrington - The Open House

John Carson - Starvation Lake #1 DCI Sean Bracken

Meg Carter - The Day She Can't Forget

Karen Clarke - Your Life for Mine

M A Comley - Cold Mercy #10 DI Sarah Ramsey

Catherine Cooper - The Chalet

Judith Cranswick - Blood Follows Jane Austen #7 Fiona Mason

Judith Cutler - Legacy of Death #2 Matthew Rowsley, Steward &  Mrs Faulkner, Housekeeper, Victorian Era

Michelle Davies - Shadow of a Doubt

Diane M Dickson - Body on the Shore #1 DI Jordan Carr, Liverpool

Keith Dixon - The Two Fathers #11 Private Investigator Sam Dyke

Margaret Duffy - Gillard's Sting #22 Major Patrick Gillard, MI5 & Ingrid Langley, author (ex MI5)

Bella Ellis - The Diabolical Bones #2 The Brontë Mysteries

Kate Ellis - The House of the Hanged Woman #3 Inspector Albert Lincoln, 1919

Joy Ellis - They Disappeared #7 DI Rowan Jackman & DS Maria Evans, Lincolnshire

Caroline England - Truth Games

Kjell Eriksson - The Night of the Fire #11 Detective Ann Lindell, Uppsala, Sweden

Jessica Fellowes - The Mitford Trial #4 Louisa Cannon, Maid to the Mitfords, 1919

Keith Finney - A Yuletide Mystery #6 Norfolk Cozy Mysteries

Sebastian Fitzek - The Package

Ariana Franklin (with Samantha Norman) - Death and the Maiden #5 Adelia, 'doctor to the dead', C12th

Ashley Gardner - The Custom House Murders #15 Captain Lacey, Regency Era

Jack Gatland - Letter From The Dead #1 DI Declan Walsh

D J Gatward - Best Served Cold #2 DCI Harry Grimm

Anne Glenconner - Murder on Mustique

Lisa Gray - Dark Highway #3 Jessica Shaw

Morgan Greene - Fresh Meat #2 DS Jamie Johansson

Ross Greenwood - The Ice Killer #3 DI Barton

Heath Gunn - Khan

Liam Hanson - Lies People Tell #1 Murder Squad, Cardiff

Liam Hanson - Dead People Sleep #2 Murder Squad, Cardiff

Zhou Haohui - Fate #2 Chengdu Police Department

Cora Harrison - Summer of Secrets #3 Gaslight Mystery

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - Cruel as the Grave #22 Bill Slider, Shepherd's Bush CID

Beverley Harvey - The Perfect Liar

Sarah Hawkswood -  River of Sins #7 Bradecote and Catchpoll, Worcestershire, C12

Matt Hilton - The Fourth Option #13 Joe Hunter

Susi Holliday- The Last Resort

Anne Holt - A Necessary Death #2 Selma Falck

Noelle Holton - Dead Perfect #3 DC Maggie Jamieson

Jorn Lier Horst - The Inner Darkness #14 Chief Inspector William Wisting, Larvik

M A Hunter - Ransomed #1 The Missing Children Case Files

Sam Hurcom - Letters from the Dead #2 Thomas Bexley, Forensic Photographer, 1904

Daniel Hurst - Til Death Do Us Part

Alison James - Her Sister's Child

Quintin Jardine - The Roots of Evil #32 Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner, Edinburgh

Maureen Jennings - November Rain #2 Paradise Cafe, Toronto, 1936

Stuart Johnstone - Out in the Cold #1 Sergeant Don Colyear

Ragnar Jonasson - Winterkill #6 Ari Thor, Policeman

Conrad Jones - Good, Bad and Pure Evil #1 Anglesey Mysteries

Will Jordan - Something to Die For #9 Ryan Drake, British CIA Agent

Jessie Keane - The Manor

Simon Kernick - Kill A Stranger

Karen King - The Stranger in My Bed

Mariah Kingdom - Death Benefit #4 Rose Bennett

T E Kinsey - The Fatal Flying Affair #7 Lady Emily Hardcastle, 1908

Bill Kitson - The Bleeding Heart Killer #11 Detective Mike Nash, Yorkshire

Roberta Kray - Betrayed

Martin Kruger - Don't Wake Me

Zoe Lea - If He Wakes

Frances Lloyd - The Kings Market Killer #6 Detective Inspector Jack Dawes

Andrew Lowe - Chase The Devil #5 DI Jake Sawyer

H B Lyle - The Year of the Gun #3 Wiggins, 1909

Simon McCleave - The Solace Farm Killings #7 DI Ruth Hunter

Jo McCready - The Festival Killer #2 RJ Rox

Val McDermid - Christmas is Murder, Short Stories

Chris McDonald - The Curious Dispatch of Daniel Costello #1 Stonebridge Mysteries

Claire McGowan - The Push

Rachel McLean - Deadly Desires #3 DI Zoe Finch, West Midlands

Catriona McPherson - Scot on the Rocks #3 Last Ditch Mysteries

Barry Maitland - The Promised Land #13 Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock, London

Tom Marcus - Defend or Die #2 Matt Logan, MI5 Agent

Angela Marsons - Deadly Cry #13 DI Kim Stone

Andy Maslen - Shallow Ground #1 DI Ford

Deborah Masson - Out For Blood #2 DI Eve Hunter, Aberdeen

John Mayhew - Cruelty Has A Human Heart #4 DCI Will Blake

Simon Michael - Force of Evil #6 Charles Holborne, 1960s

Dreda Say Mitchell - Dirty Tricks #1 Mo Watson

Catherine Moloney - Crime in the Book Club #10 DI Gilbert Markham

Ada Moncrieff - Murder Most Festive #1 Hugh Gaveston, 1938

Anna-Marie Morgan - The Edinburgh Murders #14 DI Yvonne Giles

M S Morris - A Darkly Shining Star #5 DI Bridget Hart, Oxford

Antoinette Moses - A Public Murder #1 DI Pam Gregory

Margaret Murphy - Don't Scream #3 DCI Rickman, Liverpool

Peter Murphy - Verbal #7 Ben Schroeder, Lawyer, 1960s

Chris Nickson - To the Dark #3 Simon Westow, Thief-taker, Regency Leeds

Olivier Norek - The Lost and the Damned #1 Banlieues Trilogy

Jim Ody - Little Miss Evil #1 Tall Trees

Ollie Ollerton - Scar Tissue #1 Alex Abbott

S J Parris - A Christmas Requiem (ebook only) #3 Giordano Bruno Novella

S J Parris - The Dead of Winter, Giordano Bruno Novella Collection

C J Parsons -The Good Samaritan

Nell Pattison - Silent Night #2 Paige Northwood, sign language interpreter

N V Peacock - Little Bones

David Penny - A Tear for the Dead #9 Thomas Berrington, 1490s

Helen Phifer - The Killer's Girl #2 Detective Morgan Brookes

Ava Pierce - Stay Home

E M Powell - The Canterbury Murders #3 Stanton and Barling

Anthony J Quinn - Turncoat

Sarah Rayne - The Devil's Harmony #5 Phineas Fox

Alex Reeve - The Butcher of Berner Street #3 Leo Stanhope, Victorian era

Sara Rosett - Murder on a Midnight Clear #6 High Society Lady Detective, 1920s England

L J Ross - Cuthbert's Way #17 DCI Ryan

Priscilla Royal - Elegy to Murder #16 Eleanor, Prioress of Tyndal, 13thC, East Anglia

Chris Ryan - Zero 22 #8 Danny Black

Jess Ryder - The Night Away

Emma Salisbury - When Darkness Falls #7 DS Coupland

Alex Shaw - Total Blackout #1 Jack Tate, ex-SAS

Bilinda P Sheehan - Splinter the Bone #3 Harriet Quinn

Alex Smith - Run Rabbit Run #5 DCI Robert Kett, Norfolk

Gunnar Staalesen - Fallen Angels #22 Varg Veum, PI in Bergen, Norway

Paul J Teague - Trust Me Once #1 Morecambe Bay Trilogy 2

Paul J Teague - Fall From Grace #2 Morecambe Bay Trilogy 2

Paul J Teague - Bound By Blood #3 Morecambe Bay Trilogy 2

M J Trow - Last Nocturne #7 A Grand & Batchelor Victorian Mystery

Helene Tursten - Snowdrift #3 Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom

Luca Veste - The Game

Debbie Viggiano - The Watchful Neighbour

Alex Walters - Lost Hours #2 DI Annie Delamere, Derbyshire

Ruth Ware - One by One

Jeri Westerson - Spiteful Bones #13 Crispin Guest, ex Knight, Medieval times

J D Weston - The Silent Man #1 Harvey Stone

J D Weston - The Spider's Web #2 Harvey Stone

D E White - The Ice Daughters #2 Detective Dove Milson

Rebecca Whitney - The Hidden Girl

Paul Williams - Don't Tell

Michael Wood - Stolen Children #6 DCI Matilda Darke

Sarah Woodbury - Chevalier #2 Welsh Guard Mysteries

Adam J Wright - Silence of the Bones #2 Murder Force

Dylan Young - Trauma

David Young - The Stasi Game #6 Oberleutnant Karin Müller

New Releases - September and October 2020

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in paperback or hardback, in September and October 2020 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). [Apologies for the continuing delay with these posts. I'm working my way up to date. We've had a couple of busy months with the Petrona.]

If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment. There's been a lot of moving of dates.

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir - The Creak on the Stairs #1 Forbidden Iceland

Rachel Amphlett - Her Final Hour #2 Detective Mark Turpin

Heine Bakkeid - Scatter Her Ashes #2 Thorkild Aske

John Banville - Snow #1  Detective Inspector St John Strafford

M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot  #31 Agatha Raisin, Retired PR person, Cotswolds

S J Bennett - The Windsor Knot #1 The Queen

Graham Brack - Dishonour and Obey #3 Master Mercurius

Frances Brody - Death and the Brewery Queen #12 Kate Shackleton, Bradford, 1920s

Andrea Camilleri - The Sicilian Method #26 Inspector Montalbano, Sicily, Italy

Lee Child with Andrew Child - The Sentinel  #25 Jack Reacher, ex MP, USA

Alys Clare  - The Outcast Girls #2 World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery series

Ann Cleeves - The Darkest Evening #9 Inspector Vera Stanhope, East Yorkshire

Oliver Clements - The Eyes of the Queen #1 Agents of the Crown series

Karen Cole - Deceive Me

Martina Cole - Loyalty

Linda Coles - The Silent Ones  #3 Chrissy Livingstone

Julie Corbin - A Lie For A Lie

Ben Creed - City of Ghosts

Charles Cumming - Box 88

Emma Dakin - Crime in Cornwall #2 British Book Tour Mysteries

Anja de Jager - Death at the Orange Locks #5 Lotte Meerman, a Cold Case Detective, Amsterdam

Leona Deakin - Lost #2 Dr Bloom

Sarah A Denzil - You Are Invited (ebook only)

Sarah A Denzil - They Are Liars

Caroline Dunford - A Death in the Hospital #15 Euphemia Martins

Colin Falconer - Angels Weep #3 Detectives Charlie George and Clare Reeves

Caz Finlay - Head of the Firm #3 Bad Blood

Trish Finnegan - Blue Bird

Keith Finney - Dead... Again  #5 Norfolk Cozy Mysteries

Tana French - The Searcher

Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood  #5 Cormoran Strike

Elly Griffiths - The Postscript Murders #2 Harbinder Kaur

Rona Halsall - The Ex-Boyfriend

S M Hardy - Evil Never Dies #2 Dark Devon Mysteries

Matt Hilton - Collision Course #7 Grey and Villere, Louisiana

Debbie Howells - The Vow

Anna Lee Huber - A Pretty Deceit #4 Verity Kent, England, 1919

Graham Hurley - Limelight #4  Enora Andresson

Peter James - I Follow

Stuart James - Stranded

Michael Jecks - Death Comes Hot #5 Jack Blackjack, Tudor Era

Louise Jensen - The Stolen Sisters

Carys Jones - The List

Mariah  Kingdom - Death Duties #3 Rose Bennett

Danuta Kot - Someone Who Isn't Me

Volker Kutscher - The March Fallen #5 Detective Inspector Rath, Berlin, 1929/30s

Anna Legat - A Conspiracy of Silence #5 DI Gillian Marsh

Nick Louth - The Body on the Island #6 DCI Craig Gillard

Nina Manning - The House Mate

David Mark - Suspicious Minds

Allan Martin - Death in Tallinn

Priscilla Masters - A Game of Minds #3 Dr Claire Roget, Forensic Psychiatrist

Jo McCready - The Hunted #1 RJ Rox

Chris McGeorge - Inside Out

Jack McSporran - Payback #3 Maggie

Zoe Miller - The Perfect Sister

Liz Mistry - Unbound Ties #7DI Gus McGuire

Vera Morris - The Ship of Death #4 Anglian Detective Agency series

Gretta Mulrooney - Never Came Home #2 DI Siv Drummond

Amy Myers - Death and the Singing Birds #3 Nell Drury, chef-sleuth, 1920s

Jo Nesbo - The Kingdom

Hakan Nesser - The Secret Life of Mr Roos  #3 Inspector Barbarotti

Stuart Neville - The Traveller and Other Stories #1Short Stories

Carlene O'Connor - Murder at an Irish Christmas #6 Siobhan O'Sullivan, Kilbane, County Cork

Nick Oldham - Bad Timing #25 DCI Christie

Sólveig Pálsdóttir - The Fox (ebook only)

Jill Paterson - Murder At The Beaufort #1 Phoebe Chadwick

Vikki Patis - The Wake

David Pearson  - Murder in a Safe Haven #10 Detectives Lyons and Hays, Galway

Andrea Penrose - Murder at Queen's Landing #4 Wrexford & Sloane

Anne Perry - A Christmas Resolution

Christoffer Petersen - Arctic Rebel #2 Guerrilla Greenland

Alex Pine - The Christmas Killer #1 DI James Walker, Cumbria

Jack Probyn - The Community: Episode 2 #8 CID Case

Melanie Raabe - The Shadow

Ian Rankin - A Song For The Dark Times #23 Inspector Rebus, Edinburgh

Agnes Ravatn - The Seven Doors

Nicola Rayner - You and Me

Heather Redmond - A Christmas Carol Murder

Kate Rhodes - Pulpit Rock #4 DI Ben Kitto

Imogen Robertson with Tom Watson - The House

Peter Robinson - Not Dark Yet #27 Insp. Alan Banks, Yorkshire

Pauline Rowson - Death In The Harbour  #2 Inspector Alun Ryga, Dorset

Caro Savage - Villain

Max Seeck - The Witch Hunter

Lilja Sigurdardottir - Betrayal

K L Slater - The Girl She Wanted

Alexander McCall Smith - How to Raise an Elephant #21 Mma Ramotswe, PI, Botswana

Fiona Veitch Smith - The Art Fiasco #5 Poppy Denby, 1920s Reporter

Emma Tallon - Ruthless Girl #7 Anna Davis

Stuart Turton - The Devil and the Dark Water

Rosie Walker - Secrets of a Serial Killer

Sue Watson - First Date

S R White - Hermit

Claire Whitfield - People of Abandoned Character

Edward Wilson - The Portrait of a Spy as a Young Man #7 Catesby

Robert Wilton - Poison in Paris #2 Harry Delamere

The Petrona Award 2020 - Winner

 

Winner of 2020 Petrona Award announced – a first for Finnish crime

The winner of the 2020 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year is:

LITTLE SIBERIA by Antti Tuomainen, translated from the Finnish by David Hackston and published by Orenda Books.

As well as a trophy, Antti Tuomainen receives a pass to and a guaranteed panel at CrimeFest 2022. Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston will also receive a cash prize.

The judges’ statement on LITTLE SIBERIA:

Antti Tuomainen’s LITTLE SIBERIA stood out on the shortlist for all of the judges. From its arresting opening, in which a meteorite unexpectedly lands on a speeding car, to its very human depiction of a pastor grappling with private and theological crises, this is a pitch-perfect comic crime novel with considerable depth and heart.

The first Finnish crime novel to receive the Petrona Award, LITTLE SIBERIA is a particularly fitting winner for 2020 – a year in which life was turned upside down. A celebration of resilience, fortitude and simply muddling through, it is a novel for our times.

David Hackston’s fine translation captures LITTLE SIBERIA’S depictions of an icy northern Finland and its darkly comic tone, skilfully showcasing the writing of one of Scandinavia’s most versatile and original crime authors. LITTLE SIBERIA is published by Orenda Books, one of the UK’s foremost independent publishers, which consistently champions international and translated crime fiction.

Comments from the winning author, translator and publisher:

Antti Tuomainen (author):

To make a long story short, I have to make it long first. A few years ago, after publishing five very dark and very noir books, I felt there was an element within me I had to bring into my writing: humour. Before my first darkly funny book The Man Who Died was published I was very nervous. Was I making a big mistake? One of those career choices you read about in artists' biographies under the chapter title 'The Fall'? Not that anyone would write about me, as I would be forgotten, found much later in a basement room, alone, perished in the middle of a last 'humorous' sentence … Happily, I was wrong, and not for the first time. Which seems to bring us to Little Siberia. It is my eighth book and now the recipient of the prestigious Petrona Award. When I set out to write a darkly comical crime novel with a priest as main character, I knew I was taking a leap – again. Alas, here we are. I want to thank David Hackston and Karen Sullivan, both incomparable and indispensable, as without them all the jury would have had was a book in Finnish with no idea who sent it. I send my warmest thank you to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Oh, and that shorter story: after fifteen years of writing and nine books, it seems I'm finally an overnight success.

David Hackston (translator):

I'm extremely honoured to receive the Petrona Award 2020, not least because of the illustrious, formidable company on the shortlist. Many congratulations to all the authors and especially to my fellow translators – my co-conspirators in bringing Nordic writing to English-speaking readers. My thanks to the panel and a huge, heartfelt thank you to Orenda Books, without whom none of this would be possible. Of course, behind every good translation is an excellent original text, and in this respect Antti Tuomainen is the gift that keeps on giving. Kiitos, Antti; thanks for the laughs thus far. Long may it continue.

Karen Sullivan (Orenda Books):

We are honoured and absolutely thrilled by the news that Little Siberia has won this prestigious award – quite possibly the only designated award for Scandinavian crime fiction in English – and it feels fitting that in such a difficult year, Antti's beautifully written, funny, philosophical and exquisitely plotted thriller has been chosen. Antti has pushed the crime genre in so many exciting directions, and I applaud the judges for making such a bold and perfect choice. It can be no easy feat to translate Finnish and yet David Hackston has once again produced an elegant, pitch-perfect translation, and we are so delighted that his work has been rewarded in this way.

The judges would also like to highly commend THE SILVER ROAD by Stina Jackson, translated from the Swedish by Susan Beard and published by Corvus (Atlantic Books).

The Petrona team would like to thank our sponsor, David Hicks, for his generous and continued support of the 2020 Petrona Award.