PETRONA AWARD: BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR LONGLIST

The 2022 Petrona Award Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year Longlist: Crime fiction from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Maria Adolfsson – Fatal Isles tr. Agnes Broomé (Sweden, Zaffre)

Kjell Ola Dahl – The Assistant tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books)

Katrine Engberg – The Butterfly House tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, Hodder & Stoughton)

Helene Flood – The Therapist tr. Alison McCullough (Norway, MacLehose Press)

Óskar Guðmundsson – The Commandments tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books Ltd)

Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger – Smoke Screen tr. Megan Turney (Norway, Orenda Books)

Ruth Lillegraven – Everything Is Mine tr. Diane Oatley (Norway, AmazonCrossing)

Sólveig Pálsdóttir – Silenced  tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books Ltd)

Anders Roslund – Knock Knock tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel   (Sweden, Harvill Secker)

Lilja Sigurðardóttir – Cold as Hell tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Orenda Books)

Gustaf Skördeman – Geiger tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, Zaffre)

Antti Tuomainen – The Rabbit Factor tr. David Hackston (Finland, Orenda Books)

Cartoon of the Day: Memoir

 

Whitstable Pearl: Season 2

Whitstable Pearl will return for Season 2 on Monday, November 28 on AcornTV, with two episodes. Two episodes will debut weekly.

This series is based on The Whitstable Pearl Mysteries by Julie Wassmer. There are more Whitstable Pearl novels in the series, so hopefully there will be more seasons of Whitstable Pearl. I really enjoy the series. Pearl is a restauranteur and former police detective who because of her first case, becomes a P.I. All this in a charming British seaside town. 

You can still watch Season 1 of Whitstable Pearl on Acorn TV in the UK and the US.

Whitstable Pearl Season 1 follows Pearl Nolan (Kerry Godliman), who runs a successful seafood restaurant in her hometown of Whitstable in Kent but really misses being a detective. When she comes across the dead body of her friend Vinnie, she sets herself up as a PI and teams up with out-of-town detective DCI Mike McGuire (Howard Charles) to solve Vinnie’s death and other murders in the picturesque seaside town. 

 

2022 MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! SWEEPSTAKES

2022 Masterpiece Mystery! Sweepstakes

Enter once through December 6, 2022 for a chance to win. 

One (1) Grand Prize: Costume sketch from Miss Scarlet and The Duke autographed by actor Kate Phillps, costume designer Momirka Bailovic, and Creator, Writer and Executive Producer Rachel New; 

a hardcover  Magpie Murders book autographed by author Anthony Horowitz; Seasons 1 and 2 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke, Season 1 Annika, and Magpie Murders on DVDs from ShopPBS.org; 

plus one pair of adorable socks featuring Edward Gorey artwork from the MASTERPIECE Mystery!opening. 

Nine other eligible entrants will have the chance to win the same selection of DVDs from ShopPBS.org, a pair of Mystery! socks, and an unsigned paperback book of Magpie Murders. 

If you have mystery-loving friends and family who’d be eager to enter, please forward this email! [Sweepstakes open to adult residents of the fifty United States only.] 

Read the full Official Rules. 

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Cartoon of the Day: Book Cover

DAY OF THE DEAD CRIME FICTION

What holiday could be more fitting to Crime Fiction than El Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead? You'll love this list. Be sure and check my updated Halloween Crime Fiction list for other mysteries that start on Halloween and include Day of the Dead.  

DAY OF THE DEAD CRIME FICTION

Day of the Dead by Kristi Belcamino
Scrapbook of the Dead by Mollie Cox Bryan
The Day of the Dead by John Creed
Trick or Treason by Kathi Daley

Lou Lou and Pea and the Mural Mystery by Jill Diamond and Lesley Vamos (Children's)
Day of the Dead by Brenda Donelan
A Cemetery, a Cannibal, and the Day of the Dead by CC Dragon
The Day of the Dead by Nicci French
The Day of the Dead: the Autumn of Commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni
Day of the Dead by Drew Golden

Days of the Dead by Barbara Hambly
Sugar Skull by Denise Hamilton
Dios De Los Muertos by Kent Harrington
The Wrong Goodbye by Chris Holm
Death Arts by Melanie Jackson
Day of the Dead by J.A. Jance
Depth of Winter by Craig Johnson
Devil's Kitchen by Clark Lohr
Weave Her Thread with Bones by Claudia Long
Day of the Dead by Manuel Luis Martinez
Bread of the Dead by Ann Myers
Oink by Judith Newton
Day of the Dead by Mark Roberts

The Day of the Dead  by William Spear  
The Day of the Dead by Bart Spicer
The Day of the Dead Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Any titles missing?

Want to watch a fun movie about the Day of the Dead? 

The James Bond movie Spectre starts on the Day of the Dead. 

And one of my favorites, although not a mystery, is Coco!