Staalesen is an expert at making his characters just complex enough that the reader can empathise with the human condition in the majority of them.

Femicide: the latest BESTSELLING THRILLER from Scandinavia Femicide: the latest BESTSELLING THRILLER from Scandinavia

The novel had massive success in Denmark and was adapted into the award-winning film “King’s Game” by Nikolaj Arcel, starring Anders W…. It's been ten years of the Petrona Award: 2013 - 2023, and to mark the occasion we will be revisiting the first ten winners.This is the second installment in the lauded Vanessa Frank series and the first book of Engman to be translated into the English language despite the fact that the Vanessa Frank novels have found their way in other big markets such as the German, the Spanish, and the Italian. Starting from next Thursday, we will be posting classic reviews from former and current Petrona Award judges as well as some new material from 'friends of the Petrona'. KALMANN is a beautifully written, absorbing, character-driven tale set in a rich Icelandic landscape. The judges selected the shortlist from a particularly strong pool of candidates with the shortlisted titles ranging from police procedural and private investigator to historical.

Femicide by Pascal Engman | Waterstones

Och den så kallade incel-rörelsen, En rörelse som betyder ofrivilligt celibat, heterosexuella män som lever utan partner, har haft lite eller ingen erfarenhet alls av sex och kärlek. With its multifaceted characters, X is a profound suspense novel about a person’s strongest driving forces. Nicolas, is an ex-soldier who she had worked with on another case, and while Vanessa feels they have many things in common, Nicolas will be moving to London very soon.

There were 43 entries for the 2023 Petrona Award from six countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland). Emelie had received threats from her partner Karim Laimani who is in prison, when she told him she wants to move on. Dėl to apimama labai daug įvairių nusikaltimo kampų, bet neišvengiamai tas žvilgsnis darosi toks truputį chaotiškas, kaleidoskopiškas. I am delighted that the jury has recognised his talent and that my translation seems to have done it justice!

The Petrona Award

The pacing is breathless, the prose lean and the hard-boiled narrative unravels in a perfect procession of action, emotion and tension. The Vanessa Frank series is sold in over 20 countries and has been translated into 19 languages including English, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. Em suma, Femício é um thriller fantástico e emocionante, que agarra o leitor desde a primeira página.A escrita, juntamente com os capítulos curtos e personagens extremamente bem construídas tornaram esta leitura viciante. Apart from their wealth the police find no connection between the victims and the released victims won’t speak a word. A young woman is found murdered in her apartment in the same week her violent ex-boyfriend is released from prison.