New Releases - July 2024

I'm so behind I feel that I've missed quite a few this month. As ever, do let me know! 

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in July 2024 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). 64 titles this month (see above).

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 *** (NB. None this month).

Anthology - Murder in Harrogate (ed. Vaseem Khan)

Adams, Jane - Murder at the Hotel #10 Rina Martin, Actress
Allingham, Merryn - Murder at Cleve College #9 Flora Steele, Sussex, 1955
Baker, J A - The Guilty Teacher
Baker, J A - The Widower's Lie
Baker, J A - When She Sleeps
Brookmyre, Christopher - The Cracked Mirror
Browne, Sheryl - Keep Me Safe
Burke, Darcy - A Whisper of Death #1 Raven & Wren
Burnell, Sam - A Time To Deceive #3 Myles Devereux, Tudor Era
Cartwright, Jack - No More Blood #13 Wild Fens Murder Mystery
Cole, Karen - What She Did
Comley, M A - Gone... But Where? #24 DI Sara Ramsey
Conway, Andy - Death in Oslo #3 John Blackwood
Delargy, James - Into the Flames
Dempsey, Eoin - The Girl in the Basement
Eldridge, Jim - Murder at Lord's Station #6 Detective Chief Inspector Coburg & Sergeant Lampson
Ewan, C M - One Wrong Turn
Fielding, Liz - Murder in Bloom #3 Abby Finch, Cotswolds
Finnegan, Trish - Baby Blues #3 PC Samantha Barrie
Ford, P F - Death by Takeaway #11 Slater and Norman
Furniss, Jo - Dead Mile
Giles, Stewart - The Painter #28 DS Jason Smith
Godden, Gillian - The Street #1 Silvas
Hagan, Linda - Lasting Influence #8 Detective Chief Inspector Gawn Girvin
Heller, Mandasue - The Family
Hilary, Sarah - Sharp Glass
Hood, D K - Forgotten Girls #4 Detective Beth Katz
Hurst, Daniel - The Nurse's Lie #2 The Perfect Nurse
Irving, Alison - Her Best Friend's Husband
Jones, Carys - The Final Score
Jordan, Adele - Murder at Greenwich Palace #1 Shadow Cutpurses Tudor Thrillers
Klein, Brian - The Last Reich #3 Reich Trilogy
Leitch, Fiona - The Cornish Campsite Murder #7 Jodie 'Nosey' Parker, Chef
Leon, Donna - A Refiner's Fire #33 Commissario Guido Brunetti, Venice
Lewis, David - A Jewel in the Crown #1 The Secret Churchill Files

McCleave, Simon - Last Night at Villa Lucia  
MacKenzie, A J - City of Woe #2 Simon Merrivale
McLean, Rachel & Ravensworth, Millie - Death at Abbey Road (ebook only) #6 Diana Bakewell

Morrison, Lynn & Radcliffe Anne - The Sapphire Intrigue #3 The Crown Jewels Regency Mysteries
North, Lauren - I'm Her Mother
Organ, Emily - Death in Kensington #8 Augusta Peel, 1920s
Pálsdóttir, Sólveig - Shrouded tr. Quentin Bates #4 Guðgeir Fransson 

Penney, Stef - The Long Water
Penny, David - The Beasts of the City #4 Thomas Berrington, Ludlow, Tudor Era
Pitoniak, Anna - The Helsinki Affair
Probyn. Jack - Death's Angel #6 DS Tomek Bowen
Rhodes, GS - Deadly Secrets #4 DS Zoe Sanchez
Ross, L J - Panic #5 Alexander Gregory
Ryder, Jess - The Villa
Schmidt, Joachim B - Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain tr. Jamie Lee Searle #2 Kalmann 

Silva, Daniel - A Death in Cornwall #24 Gabriel Allon
Slater, K L - Message Deleted
Smith, Sally - A Case of Mice and Murder #1 Gabriel Ward, Barrister, 1901
Steadman, Catherine - Look in the Mirror
Stone, Lisa - The Murder Room
Turner, A K - Dead Fall #4 Cassie Raven, Mortuary Technician
Wallace, Joanna - The Dead Friend Project
Walter, B P - The Garden Party
Ward, Sarah - The Vanishing Act #3 Mallory Dawson, Wales
Watson, Katy - Seven Lively Suspects #3 Dahlia Lively
Whitaker, Chris - All the Colours of the Dark
Whitwell, Tracy - Cross Bones #3 Accidental Medium
Wood, Trevor - The Silent Killer #1 DCI Jack Parker

The Petrona Award 2024 - Longlist

From the press release which was embargoed until 8.00am today:

Petrona Award 2024 - Longlist 

OUTSTANDING CRIME FICTION FROM DENMARK, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 PETRONA AWARD 

Ten crime novels from Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the 2024 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. 

They are:

Tove Alsterdal - You Will Never Be Found tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, Faber & Faber)

Anne Mette Hancock - The Collector tr. Tara F Chace (Denmark, Swift Press)

Jørn Lier Horst - Snow Fall tr. Anne Bruce (Norway, Michael Joseph)

Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger - Stigma tr. Megan E Turney (Norway, Orenda Books) 

Arnaldur Indriðason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, Harvill Secker) 

Jógvan Isaksen - Dead Men Dancing tr. Marita Thomsen (Faroe Islands (Denmark), Norvik Press)

Åsa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, MacLehose Press) 

Lilja Sigurðardottir - White as Snow tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Orenda Books)

Yrsa Sigurðardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, Hodder & Stoughton) 

Karin Smirnoff - The Girl in the Eagle's Talons tr. Sarah Death (Sweden, MacLehose Press)

The longlist contains a mix of newer and more established authors including previous Petrona Award winners, Jørn Lier Horst and Yrsa Sigurðardottir. 

Both large and small publishers are represented on the longlist, with Orenda Books and MacLehose Press both having two entries, and the breakdown by country is Iceland (3), Sweden (3), Denmark (2) and Norway (2). 

The shortlist will be announced on 10 October 2024.

The Petrona Award 2024 judging panel comprises Jackie Farrant, the creator of RAVEN CRIME READS and a bookseller/Area Commercial Support for a major book chain in the UK and Ewa Sherman, translator and writer, and blogger at NORDIC LIGHTHOUSE, with additional help from Sarah Ward, author, former Petrona Award judge and current CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger judge.

The Award administrator is Karen Meek, owner of the EURO CRIME blog and website. 

The Petrona team would like to thank both our sponsor, David Hicks, for his continuing support of the Petrona Award and the CWA, in particular Maxim Jakubowski, for allowing Sarah to step in following the very unexpected death of our much missed judge and friend Miriam Owen.

The Petrona Award was established to celebrate the work of Maxine Clarke, one of the first online crime fiction reviewers and bloggers, who died in December 2012. Maxine, whose online persona and blog was called Petrona, was passionate about translated crime fiction but in particular that from the Scandinavian countries.

The award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia and published in the UK in the previous calendar year. More information on the history of the Award and previous winners can be found at the Petrona Award website.