GLASS KEY AWARD BEST NORDIC NOVEL

The Rap Sheet (based on an announcement in the website Thrillers and More) reports that 2020’s Glass Key was awarded in August to Swedish writer Camilla Grebe for Skuggjägaren (The Shadow Hunter). The Glass Key is presented by Crime Writers of Scandinavia to the author whose work is judged the best Nordic crime novel of last year. This was Grebe’s second Glass Key win in three years; in 2008, she won with her psychological thriller Diary of My Disappearance (aka After She’s Gone). 

Also in the running for this year's Glass Key: 

Dødfunden (Found Dead), by Gretelise Holm (Denmark) 

Den åttonde tärnan (The Eighth Bridesmaid), by Eva Frantz (Finland)

Svik (Betrayal), by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Iceland)

Kniv (Knife), by Jo Nesbø (Norway).