Anne Mette Hancock‘s crime novel The Collector, translated by Tara Chace, has made the shortlist of outstanding crime fiction considered for the 2024 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.
The judges said: ‘This is a complex thriller of buried secrets, that beautifully wrong-foots the reader from beginning to end.’
The judges noted that they ‘are extremely grateful to the six translators whose expertise and skill have allowed readers to access these outstanding examples of Scandinavian crime fiction’.
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. The winner will be announced on 14 November 2024.