Outstanding Crime Fiction from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Long-listed for the 2025 Petrona Award.
Twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.
They are:
Dead Island by Samuel Bjørk tr. Charlotte Barslund (Norway, Bantam)
Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)
The Widows by Pascal Engman tr. Neil Smith (Sweden, Legend Press)
Deliver Me by Malin Persson Giolito tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, Simon & Schuster)
The Dancer by Óskar Guðmundsson tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)
Victim by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger tr. Megan E Turney (Norway, Orenda Books)
Blood Ties by Jo Nesbo tr. Robert Ferguson (Norway, Harvill Secker)
The Sea Cemetery by Aslak Nore tr. Deborah Dawkin (Norway, MacLehose Press)
Shrouded by Sólveig Pálsdóttir tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)
The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Rämö tr. Kristian London (Finland, Zaffre)
Ghost Island by Max Seeck tr. Kristian London (Finland, Mountain Leopard Press)
Pursued by Death by Gunnar Staalesen tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books)
The longlist contains a mix of newer and more established authors including previous Petrona Award winners Pascal Engman, Malin Persson Giolito, Jørn Lier Horst, and Gunnar Staalesen.
Both large and small publishers are represented on the longlist, with Corylus Books having an impressive three entries. The breakdown by country is Norway (5), Iceland (3), Finland (2) and Sweden (2).
The shortlist will be announced on 18 September 2025.
The Petrona Award 2025 judging panel comprises Jackie Farrant, the creator of RAVEN CRIME READS and a bookseller for a major book chain in the UK, Ewa Sherman, translator and writer, and blogger at NORDIC LIGHTHOUSE, and Sonja van der Westhuizen, a book critic for print and online publications in the UK and South Africa, as well as a blogger at WEST WORDS REVIEWS.
The Award administrator is Karen Meek, owner of the EURO CRIME blog and website.
The Petrona team would like to thank their sponsor, David Hicks, for his continuing support of the Petrona Award.
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