Вручение 4 ноября 2021 г.

Страна: Великобритания Место проведения: город Бристоль, Международная Конвенция криминальной литературы CrimeFest. Дата проведения: 4 ноября 2021 г.

Премия Petrona

Лауреат
Микаэль Ниеми 4.1
Невероятная история проповедника и его юного ученика, мальчика-саама Юсси. Лето 1852-го, глухая деревушка на самом севере Швеции. Юсси сбежал из дома, где голодал и страдал от побоев. Вскоре ему предстоит составить компанию ученому человеку Лестадиусу в его ботанических экспедициях, во время которых сложится их дуэт учителя и ученика. Проповедник научит Юсси различать растения, читать и писать, а также любить и бояться Бога. Лестадиус несет слово Божье саамам-язычникам. Но однажды увлечение ботаникой подтолкнет пастора и Юсси на совершенно неожиданный путь. На отдаленном хуторе пропала служанка – не вернулась из леса, где пасла коров. Там где, она пропала, на стволах деревьев обнаружены следы медвежьих когтей. Все уверены, что девушку задрал медведь-людоед. И только проповедник сомневается. Так начинается расследование, которые ведут пастор Лестадиус и мальчик-саам (неожиданная литературная реинкарнация пары Холмс-Ватсон). Увлекательнейшая детективная интрига встроена в не менее увлекательный исторический роман, и все это подано с теплой, слегка ироничной интонацией. Интересно и то, что Ларс Леви Лестадиус – реальное историческое лицо, человек, который, всю жизнь провел среди саамов и, по сути, обратил их в христианство.
Анне Хольт 0.0
The snow is falling

Selma Falck is living a nightmare. Trapped in a burning cabin on a freezing snow-covered mountain, she has no idea where she is or how she got there. Bruised, bleeding and naked, she barely makes it out in time as the flames engulf the cabin. With no signs of human habitation nearby, the temperature rapidly dropping, and a blizzard approaching, how will she survive?

She's lost in the wilderness

As Selma fights the cold, the hunger and her own wounds, she eventually forms a frightening picture of the past six months. Not only does she have to find a way to stay alive, she needs to make it back to civilization, quickly. Murder has been committed, and a great injustice must be stopped. The very future of the nation itself is at stake...

If the cold doesn't kill her, they will...
Томас Энгер, Йорн Лиер Хорст 4.0
Police officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series…

Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrøm’s home later that day, she finds the door unlocked and signs of a struggle inside. A bib with the number ‘one’ has been pinned to the TV.

Police officer Alexander Blix is appointed to head up the missing-persons investigation, but he still bears the emotional scars of a hostage situation nineteen years earlier, when he killed the father of a five-year-old girl. Traces of Nordstrøm soon show up at different locations, but the appearance of the clues appear to be carefully calculated … evidence of a bigger picture that he’s just not seeing…

Blix and Ramm soon join forces, determined to find and stop a merciless killer with a flare for the dramatic, and thirst for attention.

Trouble is, he’s just got his first taste of it…
Хокан Нессер 4.0
At fifty-nine years old, Valdemar Roos is tired of life. Working a job he hates, with a wife he barely talks to and two step-daughters he doesn't get on with, he doesn't have a lot to look forward to. Then, one day, a winning lottery ticket gives him an opportunity to start afresh.
Without telling a soul, he quits his job and buys a hut in the remote Swedish countryside. Every day he travels down to this man-made oasis, returni
Agnes Ravatn 0.0
When the tenant of a house that university professor Nina owns with her doctor husband goes missing after an uncomfortable visit, Nina starts her own investigation … with deeply disturbing results. The long-awaited new thriller from the bestselling author of The Bird Tribunal.

University professor Nina is at a turning point. Her work seems increasingly irrelevant, her doctor husband is never home, relations with her difficult daughter are strained, and their beautiful house is scheduled for demolition.

When she discovers that she and her husband still own a house she thought had been sold years earlier, things take a very dark turn. The young woman living there disappears, leaving her son behind, the day after Nina and her daughter pay her a visit.

With few clues, the police enquiry soon grinds to a halt, but Nina has an inexplicable sense of guilt. Unable to rest, she begins her own investigation, but as she pulls on the threads of the case, it seems her discoveries may have very grave consequences for her and her family.

Exquisitely dark and immensely powerful, The Seven Doors is a sophisticated and deeply disturbing psychological thriller from one of Norway’s most distinguished voices.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 4.0
On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it...

The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found, and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible.

As detective Huldar hunts the killer, and child psychologist Freyja looks for the boy's parents, the mystery unfolds: a story of violence, entitlement, and revenge.