The shortlist was announced today for the 2024 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year, including six crime novels from Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The Petrona Award was established to celebrate the work of Maxine Clarke, one of the first online crime fiction reviewers and bloggers, who passed away in December 2012. All entries must be by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia, be a translation, and published in English in the UK during the preceding calendar year. The winning title will be announced on November 14. Congrats to all the finalists!
- Anne Mette Hancock - The Collector tr. Tara F Chace (Denmark, Swift Press)
- Jørn Lier Horst - Snow Fall tr. Anne Bruce (Norway, Michael Joseph)
- 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)
- Yrsa Sigurðardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, Hodder & Stoughton)