Shelf Awareness
The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir has won the 2015 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year, the Bookseller reported. The novel, which will be published in the U.S. by Minotaur in February 2016, is the latest in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series.Runners up were:
The Hummingbird by Kati Hiekkapelto
The Hunting Dogs by Jørn Lier Horst
Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indridason
The Human Flies by Hans Olav Lahlum
Falling Freely as if in a Dream by Leif G.W. Persson
In a special touch, the Petrona trophy was presented to Sigurdardóttir at a gala dinner at CrimeFest in Bristol, England, by Maj Sjöwall, co-author with the late Per Wahlöö of the Martin Beck series, the touchstone for modern Scandinavian crime fiction.
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