Anne Mette Hancock‘s bestselling crime novel The Corpse Flower continues to be recognised for its excellence. This ‘ingenious’ read (Daily Mail) has made the longlist for the 2023 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year alongside eleven other novels.
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.