CWA Dagger Awards 2024 - Longlist for the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger

The CWA Dagger Longlists were announced over the weekend. The most important one to me is the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger, formerly the International Dagger for which I was a judge many years ago. 

The longlist is below and you can check out my list of eligible titles here.

Shortlists will be announced at CrimeFest on 10 May.

Longlist:

Javier Castillo - The Snow Girl tr. Isabelle Scott (Spain, M, Penguin)

Juan Gomez-Jurado - Red Queen tr. Nick Caistor (Spain, M, Macmillan)

Arnaldur Indridason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, M, Harvill Secker)

Kotaro Isaka - The Mantis tr. Sam Malissa (Japan, M, Harvill Secker)

Asa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, F, MacLehose Press)

Jenny Lund Madsen - Thirty Days of Darkness tr. Megan E Turney (Denmark, F, Orenda Books)

Cloé Mehdi - Nothing is Lost tr. Howard Curtis (France, F, Europa Editions)

Hansjorg Schneider - The Murder of Anton Livius tr. Mike Mitchell (Switzerland, M, Bitter Lemon Press)

Im Seong-Sun - The Consultant tr. An Seon Jae (Korea, M, Raven Books)

Mikhail Shevelev - Not Russian tr. Brian James Baer & Ellen Vayner (Russia, M, Europa Editions)

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Maud Ventura - My Husband tr. Emma Ramadan (France, F, Hutchinson Heinemann)

Other longlists can be viewed on the CWA Website by clicking on the individual categories.

Crime Fiction in Translation (International) Dagger Speculation (2024)

The CWA Dagger longlists were announced this weekend so I thought I'd better, rather belatedly, put together the list of eligibles for the Crime Fiction in Translation (formerly the International) Dagger 2024. I'll post the Longlist separately.

So here are 70 translated crime novels published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023, that I know about. Please let me know if I've missed any.

In the list below I've also included the country of birth and gender of the author(s) plus the translator's name and the publisher.

Stats: The breakdown by gender is 34 Male and 33 Female and 3 sets of Female and Male authors writing together. Authors are from 19 countries. The most represented country is Sweden (11) followed by France and Japan (8 each) and Iceland (7). Over 56 translators (including pairs of translators) brought you these titles, with at least 9 individuals having translated more than one. 

Maria Adolfsson - Cruel Tides tr. Agnes Broomé (Sweden, F, Zaffre)

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir - You Can't See Me tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Tove Alsterdal  - You Will Never Be Found tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, F, Faber & Faber)

Yukito Ayatsuji - The Mill House Murders tr. Ho-Ling Wong (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Samuel Bjork - The Wolf tr. Charlotte Barslund (Norway, M, Bantam)

Stella Blómkvist - Murder at the Residence tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Corylus Books)

Oliver Bottini - The Invisible Web tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, M, MacLehose Press)

Simone Buchholz - The Acapulco tr. Rachel Ward (Germany, F, Orenda Books)

Simone Campos - Nothing Can Hurt You Now tr. Rahul Bery (Brazil, F, Pushkin Press)

Javier Castillo - The Snow Girl tr. Isabelle Scott (Spain, M, Penguin)

Javier Cercas - Prey For The Shadow tr. Anne McLean (Spain, M, MacLehose Press)

Maria Rosa Cutrufelli - Tina, Mafia Soldier tr. Robin Pickering-Iazzi (Italy, F, Soho Press)

Kjell Ola Dahl - The Lazarus Solution tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, M, Orenda Books)

Maurizio De Giovanni - Winter Swallows tr. Antony Shugaar (Italy, M, World Noir)

Delphine de Vigan - Kids Run the Show tr. Alison Anderson (France, F, Europa Editions)

M T Edvardsson - The Woman Inside tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, M, Macmillan)

Anki Edvinsson - The Snow Angel tr. Paul Norlen (Sweden, F, Thomas & Mercer)

Katrine Engberg - The Island tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba - Feral tr. David Homel (Canada, F, Mountain Leopard Press)

Sebastian Fitzek - The Inmate tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, M, Head of Zeus)

Carin Gerhardsen - Black Ice tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, F, Head of Zeus)

Juan Gomez-Jurado - Red Queen tr. Nick Caistor (Spain, M, Macmillan)

Johana Gustawsson - Yule Island tr. David Warriner (France, F, Orenda Books)

Anne Mette Hancock - The Collector tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Swift Press)

Romy Hausmann - Anatomy of a Killer  tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, F, Quercus)

Keigo Higashino - The Final Curtain tr. Giles Murray (Japan, M, Abacus)

Jorn Lier Horst - Snow Fall tr . Anne Bruce (Norway, M, Michael Joseph)

Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger - Stigma tr. Megan E Turney (Norway, M & M, Orenda Books)

Arnaldur Indridason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, M, Harvill Secker)

Kotaro Isaka - The Mantis tr. Sam Malissa (Japan, M, Harvill Secker)

Jógvan Isaksen - Dead Men Dancing tr. Marita Thomsen (Denmark, M, Norvik Press)

Ragnar Jonasson & Katrín Jakobsdottír - Reykjavík tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, M & F, Michael Joseph)

Katrín Júlíusdóttir  - Dead Sweet tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Hisashi Kashiwai - The Kamogawa Food Detectives tr. Jesse Kirkwood (Japan, M, Mantle)

Lars Kepler - The Spider tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, M & F,  Zaffre)

Seraina Kobler - Deep Dark Blue tr. Alex Roesch (Switzerland, F, Pushkin Press)

Camilla Lackberg & Henrik Fexeus - Cult tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M & F, HarperCollins)

Asa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, F, MacLehose Press)

Antonia Lassa - Skin Deep tr. Jacky Collins (France, F, Corylus Books)

Verónica E Llaca - Blood Ties tr. Mark Fried (Mexico, F, Mountain Leopard Press)

Jenny Lund Madsen - Thirty Days of Darkness tr. Megan E Turney (Denmark, F, Orenda Books)

Marco Malvaldi - The Art of Killing Well tr. Howard Curtis  (Italy, M, MacLehose Press)

Javier Marias - Tomás Nevinson tr. Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, M, Hamish Hamilton)

Laurent Mauvignier - The Birthday Party tr. Daniel Levin Becker (France, M, Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Cloé Mehdi - Nothing is Lost tr. Howard Curtis (France, F, Europa Editions)

Tony Mott - Deadly Autumn Harvest tr. Marina Sofia (Romania, F, Corylus Books)

Guillaume Musso - The Stranger in the Seine tr. Rosie Eyre (France, M, W&N)

Niklas Natt och Dag - 1795: The Order of the Furies tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M, Baskerville)

Jo Nesbo - Killing Moon tr. Seán Kinsella (Norway, M, Harvill Secker)

Claudia Pineiro - A Little Luck tr. Frances Riddle (Argentina, F, Charco Press)

Antoine Renand - Empathy tr. Frank Wynne (France, M, Welbeck)

Mercedes Rosende - The Hand That Feeds You tr. Tim Gutteridge (Uruguay, F, Bitter Lemon Press)

Hansjorg Schneider - The Murder of Anton Livius tr. Mike Mitchell (Switzerland, M, Bitter Lemon Press)

Max Seeck - The Last Grudge tr. Kristian London  (Finland, M, Welbeck)

Im Seong-Sun - The Consultant tr. An Seon Jae (Korea, M, Raven Books)

Mikhail Shevelev - Not Russian tr. Brian James Baer & Ellen Vayner (Russia, M, Europa Editions)

Lilja Sigurdardottir - White as Snow tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Karin Smirnoff - The Girl in the Eagle's Talons tr. Sarah Death (Sweden, F, MacLehose Press)

Gunnar Staalesen - Mirror Image tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, M, Orenda Books)

Viveca Sten - Hidden in Shadows tr. Marlaine Delargy (Sweden, F,  AmazonCrossing)

Leonie Swann - The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp tr. Amy Bojang (Germany, F,  Allison & Busby)

Kaoru Takamura - Lady Joker, Volume 2 tr. Allison Markin Powell & Marie  Iida (Japan, F, Baskerville) 

Antti Tuomainen - The Beaver Theory tr. David Hackston (Finland, M, Orenda Books)

Maud Ventura - My Husband tr. Emma Ramadan (France, F, Hutchinson Heinemann)

Ferdinand von Schirach - Coffee and Cigarettes: Scenes from a Crime Writer's Life tr. Katharina Hall (Germany, M, Baskerville)

Yulia Yakovleva - Death of the Red Rider tr. Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Russia, F, Pushkin Vertigo)

Futaro Yamada - The Meiji Guillotine Murders tr. Bryan Karetnyk (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Seishi Yokomizo - The Devil's Flute Murders tr. Jim Rion (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Hideo Yokoyama - The North Light tr. Louise Heal Kawai (Japan, M, riverrun)

New Releases - February 2024

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in February 2024 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). 70 titles this month. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment. 

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Allen, Hania - The Maze #6 DS Dania Gorska
Allingham, Merryn - The Library Murders #8 Flora Steele, Sussex, 1955
Alsterdal, Tove - Deep Harbour tr. Alice Menzies #3 Detective Eira Sjödin
Baker, J A - The Perfect Parents
Barnes, Kerry - Needs Must
Beaton, M C - Death of a Spy #37 PC Hamish Macbeth, Lochdubh, Scotland
Bennett, S J - A Death in Diamonds #4 The Queen
Bickford, David - The Informer #2 Katya
Black, Katherine - A Most Unusual Demise #1 The Most Unusual Mysteries
Blake, Matthew - Anna O
Brent, Katy - The Murder After the Night Before
Burrowes, Grace - A Gentleman in Pursuit of Truth #4 The Lord Julian Mysteries
Coles, Catherine - Death at Lovers' Leap #3 Martha Miller
Costello, Iris - The Story Collector
Craig, James - The Lesson #18 Inspector John Carlyle
Davison, Anita - Murder in the Library #2 Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet, 1915, London
Dixon, Helena - Murder at the Island Hotel #15 Miss Underhay
Donovan, Rose - Murder in a Mask #3 Partners in Spying, 1930s
Dounaeva, Lorna - The Wife's Mistake
Ellis, Joy - The Colour of Mystery #2 Ellie McEwan
English, Rachael - Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?
Ford, P F - Death by Plane #2 Slater and Norman
Ford, P F - Death by Night #3 Slater and Norman
French, Nicci - Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
Gatland, Jack - Stealth Strike #5 Tom Marlowe
Giles, Stewart - Evil on the Island #12 DI Liam O'Reilly
Gillespie, Mark - The Lost Girl
Godfrey, Jennie - The List of Suspicious Things
Greene, Morgan - The Hiss of the Snake #3 DI Jamie Johansson Files
Gudmundsson, Oskar - The Dancer tr. Quentin Bates
Hood, D K - Dark Hearts #3 Detective Beth Katz
Hussey, William - Jericho's Dead #2 Killing Jericho
Jones, Dylan H - Hear Her Scream
Kent, Tony - The Shadow Network #5 Dempsey and Devlin
Koomson, Dorothy - Every Smile You Fake
Lees, Georgina - True Crime
Logan, TM - The Dream Home
Lowe, Ali - The School Run
Marsh, Beezy - Queen of Diamonds #3 Alice Diamond, the Queen of the Forty Thieves, London, 1946
Martin, Allan - The Dead of Oban #4 Inspector Angus Blue
Matsumoto, Seicho - Point Zero tr. Louise Heal Kawai
McDonough, Patrice - Murder by Lamplight #1 Dr Julia Lewis, Victorian Era
McLean, Rachel with Millie Ravensworth - Death on the Thames #4 Diana Bakewell
Miller, C L - The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder #1 Antique Hunters
Murrin, Orlando - Knife Skills for Beginners
Nicholl, John - The Holiday
Noel, Sarah F - An Audacious Woman #5 Tabitha & Wolf
North, Lauren - The Teacher's Secret
O'Connor, Carlene - Murder at an Irish Chipper #10 Siobhan O'Sullivan, Kilbane, County Cork
Oswald, James - For Our Sins #13 Detective Inspector McLean, Edinburgh
Paris, B A - The Guest
Phifer, Helen - Her Lost Soul #2 Detective Maria Miller
Ridpath, Michael - Whale Fjord #7 Magnus Jonson, homicide detective, Iceland
Rigby, Sally - Death's Shadow #13 DCI Whitney Walker & Dr Georgina Cavendish
Robotham, Mandy - The Hidden Storyteller
Ryan, OMJ - Deadly Inferno #11 DCI Jane Phillips, Cheshire
Salisbury, Emma - One Good Reason (ebook only) #1 DS Chris Ashcroft, Manchester
Shapiro, Irina - The Highgate Cemetery Murder #1 Tate and Bell
Sivers, Dave - Price to Pay #7 Archer and Baines
Smithson, L D - The Escape Room
Tallon, Emma - Her Feud #7 Scarlet Drew
Tickler, Peter - The Tickler's Jam Murders
Tierney, Marie - Deadly Animals
Tope, Rebecca - The Borrowdale Body #13 Persimmon Brown, Florist, Lake District
Trow, M J - Moon Rising #12 Christopher Marlowe
Wignall, Kevin - The First Death of Winter
Winters, Mary - Murder in Masquerade #2 Amelia Amesbury, Agony Aunt, Victorian era
Wolf, Rachel - Five Nights
Woods, Karen - The Truth
Yuzuki, Asako - Butter tr. Polly Barton

New Releases - January 2024

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in January 2024 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). 110 titles this month. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment. 

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Alexander, Magda - The Case of the Stray Stickpin #2 Kitty Worthington Cozy Capers
Armstrong, Jess - The Curse of Penryth Hall
Bailey, Jaye - The Killing Pages #3 DCI Luke Wiley
Barnes, Charlotte - A True Crime
Baylis, Edie - Trusting Blood #3 Scarred
Bettany, Jane - Murder at the Book Festival #2 Violet Brewster
Black, Katherine - A Most Malicious Messenger #2 Most Unusual Mysteries
Blake, Sam - Three Little Birds
Boland, Shalini - The School Reunion
Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the Phantom Skiers #13 Brother and sister sleuths, Blotto and Twinks
Brook, Lee - The Echoes of Silence #14 West Yorkshire Crime
Brookes, Dawn - Murder in a Care Home #5 Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe
Bull, Jessica - Miss Austen Investigates #1 Miss Austen Investigates
Butler, D S - Before the Dawn #8 DS Karen Hart, Lincolnshire
Clements, Rory - Munich Wolf
Comley, M A - Revenge Streak #22 DI Sara Ramsey
Connelly, Lucy - Death at a Scottish Wedding #2 Dr Emilia McRoy
Critchlow, Heather - Unburied #2 Cal Lovett Files
Croft, Kathryn - The Girl in Room 12
Dalgliesh, J M - The Talisker Dead #3 DI Duncan McAdam, Isle of Skye
de la Motte, Anders - The Mountain King tr. Alex Fleming #1 Criminal inspector Leonore Asker
Devlin, Cara - Nature of the Crime #6 Bow Street Duchess
East, Philippa - A Guilty Secret
Ellis, Emmy - Reflect #24 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Emmy - The Blade Killer #8 DI Bethany Smith
Ellis, Emmy - The Sledgehammer Killer #9 DI Bethany Smith
Ellis, Joy - An Aura of Mystery #1 Ellie McEwan
Enright, Robert - Blood Money #13 Sam Pope
Ferraro, Nicolás - My Favorite Scar tr. Mallory Craig-Kuhn
FitzGerald, Helen - Halfway House
Galloway, K T - Still Waters #8 O'Malley & Swift
Goodwin, Sarah - The Yacht
Grace, Fiona - A Scandalous Death #2 The Maid and the Mansion
Graham, R L - Death on the Lusitania
Grayson, C J - Taken From Her Home #1 Detective April Fisher
Greig, Andrew James - The Girl in the Loch #1 Private Investigator Tearlach Paterson, Scotland
Griffiths, Elly - The Last Word
Hall, Araminta - One of the Good Guys
Hall, Traci - Murder at a Scottish Castle #5 Paislee Shaw, Nairn, Scotland
Hannah, Mari - The Longest Goodbye #9 Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels
Hindle, Tom - Murder on Lake Garda
Hood, D K - A Song for the Dead #21 Detectives Kane and Alton
Howard, B M - Blood of the Knights #3 Gracchus & Vanderville
Hunter, E V - A Story to Strangle For #4 Hopgood Hall Murder Mysteries
Hurst, Daniel - The Couple's Revenge
Jackson, Gillian - The Dead Husband
James, Evelyn - Death at the Sun Club #31 Clara Fitzgerald
Jenkins, Victoria - Your Perfect Life
Jensen, Oskar - Helle and Death
Johnston, Anthony - The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead #2 Gwinny Tuffel, Dog sitter
Jordan, G R - Death of the Witch (ebook only) #2 Siobhan Duffy
Kidd, Michelle - Three Broken Bodies #5 DI Jack MacIntosh
Kildare, Kitty - Death at the Fireside Inn #1 Veronica Vale, 1920s
Kinder, Gomery - London Lies Bleeding #1 Justin Martello
Kitson, Bill - Death Sentence #17 Detective Mike Nash, Yorkshire
Kovach, Carla - On a Quiet Street
Lane, Anna Sayburn - The Soho Jazz Murders #2 Marjorie, 1920s
Lewis, J G- Unholy Sanctuary #10 Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mystery
MacLeod, Shéa - Lady Rample and the Lady in the Lake #12 Lady Rample, 1930s
Mancini, Ruth - The Woman on the Ledge
Marlow, Natalie - The Red Hollow #2 William Garrett, Birmingham
Marston, Edward - Murder in Transit #22 Det. Insp Colbeck, Scotland Yard, mid 19th Century
Martin, Faith - Murder by Candlelight
Maslen, Andy - The Seventh Girl #1 Detective Kat Ballantyne
Mason, Simon - Lost and Never Found #3 DI Ray Wilkins, Oxford
McCleave, Simon - The Drowning Isle #4 DCI Laura Hart, Anglesey
McIlroy, Alice - The Glass Woman
McLean, Rachel & Joel Hames - The Mine #2 Cumbria Crime
Morrison, Lynn - The Roman Riddle #5 Dora and Rex, 1920s
Mróz, Remigiusz - Final Appeal tr. ??? #1 Joanna Chylka, Lawyer
Murphy, Martina - The Reckoning #3 DS Lucy Golden
O'Brien, Jenny - Roses for the Dead #2 Detective Alana Mack
Organ, Emily - Murder on the Thames #6 Augusta Peel, 1920s
Pearce, Biba & L T Ryan - The Frost Killer #4 Dalton Savage
Probyn, Jack - Death's Kiss #4 DS Tomek Bowen
Quinn, Cate - The Clinic
Reed, HJ - A Fatal Pact#3 DI Crow
Reynolds, Amanda - The Screenwriter
Richards, Mark & E S Richards - The Hanged Woman #6 Michael Brady, Yorkshire
Richell, Hannah - The Search Party
Rigby, Sally - The Hidden Graves of St Ives #2 Detective Lauren Pengelly & Detective Matt Price
Robertson, C S - The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
Rose, M L - Looking For You #6 DCI Rohan Roy
Rosett, Sara - Murder in the Alps #8 High Society Lady Detective, 1920s England
Russell, Leigh - Poppy Takes the Lead #3 Poppy Mystery
Ryan, Sadie - The Proposal
Ryan, Sadie - The Secretary
Salter, Michelle - Murder at Merewood Hospital
Saxon, Diane - The Good Twin
Seymour, Gerald - The Best Revenge #4 Jonas Merrick
Skuse, C J - Thorn In My Side #4 Sweetpea
Stacey, L H - The Accident
Sullivan, Tim - The Teacher #6 DS Cross, Bristol
Tait, Victoria - Vanilla Chai and a Vanishing Victim #3 Waterwheel Café
Taylor, Stephen - Won't Stay Dead #10 Danny Pearson
Thorogood, Robert - The Queen of Poisons #3 The Marlow Murder Club
Vickery, Sam - The Child at My Door
Vingtras, Marie - Blizzard tr. Stephanie Smee
Weatherley, Anna-Lou - The Housewife's Secret #7 Detective Dan Riley
Webb, Kate - Laying Out the Bones #2 Detective Inspector Matt Lockyer, Wiltshire
Wells, Kate - Stranger in the Village #2 Jude Gray
Welsh, Louise - To the Dogs
Westerson, Jeri - The Twilight Queen #2 King's Fool
Wilkinson, Diana - The Girl in Seat 2a
Wilson, Edward - Farewell Dinner for a Spy #8 Catesby
Wingate, Marty - A Body on the Doorstep #1 London Ladies' Murder Club
Wingate, Marty - A Body at the Séance #2 London Ladies' Murder Club
Wray, C J - The Excitements
Wyer, Carol - A Soul for a Soul #5 DI Kate Young, Staffordshire
Young, Debbie - Driven to Murder #9 Sophie Sayers

New Releases - December 2023

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in December 2023 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). 66 titles this month. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment. 

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Adler, Dominic - Red Labyrinth
Alexander, Magda - A Murder at Brighton #8 Kitty Worthington
Ashley, Jennifer - Mrs. Holloway's Christmas Pudding (ebook only) - Below Stairs Novella
Atkinson, Heather - Bonds of Loyalty (ebook only) #5 Blagger's Code
Barker, Robert F - Breathe Free #7 DCI Jamie Carver
Bellamy, G J - Primrose Hill #5 Sophie Burgoyne
Blaedel, Sara & Mads Peder Nordbo - Dissolved tr ???
Boland, Peter - Death at the Dog Show #3 Charity Shop Detective Agency
Brett, Simon - Waste of a Life #3 Ellen Curtis, Declutterer
Brook, Lee - The Shadows of Yuletide #12 West Yorkshire Crime
Brook, Lee - The Shadows of the Past #13 West Yorkshire Crime
Campling, Michael - A Must-Have Murder #5 Devonshire Mysteries
Carson, John - Blunt Force Trauma #20 DCI Harry McNeil
Cartwright, Jack - A Winter of Blood #1 DCI Cook, Lincolnshire
Carver CJ - A Treachery of Friends
Cockburn, Tormod - This Emerald Veil #6 Mysterious Scotland
Comley, M A - The Good Die Young #11 DI Sally Parker
Connally, Celeste - Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord #1 Lady Petra Inquires
Cookman, Lesley - Murder by Christmas #25 Libby Sarjeant, middle aged actress/investigator, Kent
Coombs, Alex - Murder on the Menu #1 Old Forge Cafe Mystery
Davies, Abby - The Girl Who Heard Maggots
Edvinsson, Anki - The Snow Angel tr. Paul Norlen #1 Detectives von Klint and Berg
Eldridge, Jim - Murder at the Louvre #10 Former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson
Ellis, Emmy - Rusty #23 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Emmy - The Meat Hook Killer #7 DI Bethany Smith
Finney, Keith - Double Cross #7 Norfolk Cozy Mysteries
Gatland, Jack - Pretend To Be Dead #17 DI Declan Walsh
Giles Stewart - The Cellar #26 DS Jason Smith
Godden, Gillian - The Bad Boy #5 The Lambrianus
Gray, Clio - The Juggler's Box #2 Bookfinders
Gustawsson, Johana - Yule Island tr. David Warriner
Harrison, Cora - Murder in the Mist #5 Gaslight Mystery
Higashino, Keigo - The Final Curtain tr. Giles Murray #10 Detective Kaga
Hurst, Daniel - The Doctor's Mistress #3 The Doctor's Wife
James, Ed - Hope To Die (ebook only) #10 DI Fenchurch, London
Jecks, Michael - One Last Dance Before I Die #1 Detective Rod Cottey, Shanghai Municipal Police
Jordan, G R - A Giant Killing #1 Siobhan Duffy
Jordan, G R - Winter Slay Bells #29 Highlands and Islands
Júlíusdóttir, Katrín - Dead Sweet tr. Quentin Bates #1 Sigurdís, Police officer
Kelly, Ruth - The Escape
King, Casey - Exposed #2 Dublin Thrillers
Kirk, JD - This Little Piggy #2 DI Heather Filson
La Plante, Lynda - Alibi #7 Trial and Retribution
Lindsay, Douglas - We Were Not Innocent #5 DI Buchan
Mark, David - The Burning Time #12 Detective Sergeant McAvoy of Humberside CID
McLean, Rachel & Millie Ravensworth - Death at Tower Bridge #3 Diana Bakewell
McNeill, Robert - Don't Cry, Darling #7 DI Jack Knox
McPherson, Catriona - Hop Scot #6 Last Ditch Mysteries
Menuhin, Karen Baugh - The Belvedere Murders #11 Heathcliff Lennox Investigates
Morgan, Anna-Marie - Murder on Arthur's Seat #1 DI McKenzie
Noel, Sarah F - An Inexplicable Woman #4 Tabitha & Wolf
North, Ely - Gothic Fog #6 DCI Finnegan, Yorkshire
Penketh, Anne - The Brittany Murders #1 The Brittany Murders
Perks, Heidi - The Last Resort
Raymond, Andrew - Blood Money #5 Novak and Mitchell
Rhodes, GS - Someone Else's Skin #10 DI Benjamin Kidd
Shindler, Will - The Cold Case #5 DI Alex Finn & DC Mattie Paulsen, London
Simpson, Carla - Deadly Obsession #6 Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe, Victorian London
Sinclair, J R - Embers of Summer #3 DI Joseph Stone
Stacey, L H - The Safe House
Sten, Viveca - Hidden in Shadows tr. Marlaine Delargy #2 The Åre Murders
Stone, Dan - Ultimate Deceit #2 Jack Kane
Tuti, Ilaria - Daughter of Ashes tr. Ekin Oklap #3 Teresa Battaglia
Wilde, Darcie - The Secret of the Lady's Maid #2 Useful Woman
Wilkinson, Kerry - After the Sleepover #2 Sleepover
Woolf, James - Indefensible

New Releases - November 2023

Now arriving on [the blog] platform 1, the heavily delayed November Arrivals. Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in November 2023 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). 109 titles this month. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment. 

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Ace, Cathy - The Corpse with the Opal Fingers #13 Welsh-Canadian Professor Cait Morgan, Criminologist
Adams, Jane - Murder At the Wedding #9 Rina Martin, Actress
Atkinson, Heather - A Savage Feud #2 The Savage Sisters
Austin, Stephanie - A Devon Midwinter Murder #7 Juno Browne
Bailey, Elizabeth - The Hanging Cheat #10 Lady Fan
Barnes, Kerry - Callous #3 Georgie Deacon
Bateman, E C - Murder Most Antique #2 Felicia Grant, Stamford, Lincs
Beaumont, Charles - A Spy Alone #1 Oxford Spy Ring
Belsham, Alison - The Innocent Angels #3 Detective Lexi Bennett
Benedict, Alexandra - The Christmas Jigsaw Murders
Benjamin, Tom - Last Testament in Bologna #5 Daniel Leicester, Bologna
Bjork, Samuel - The Wolf tr. Charlotte Barslund #4 Holger Munch & Mia Kruger, Oslo Police
Blake, David - Bluebell Wood #10 DCI Tanner, Norfolk
Bolton, Sharon - The Fake Wife
Bond, Martha - Murder in the Grotto #2 Lottie Sprigg Country House
Bowen, Rhys - The Proof of the Pudding # 17 Lady Georgiana Rannoch ('Georgie'), 1930s Britain
Bright, Verity - Murder on the Cornish Cliffs #16 Lady Eleanor Swift, 1920s
Broadfoot, Neil - Unmarked Graves #6 Connor Fraser, Stirling
Brolly, Matt - The Railroad #2 Lynch and Rose
Brook, Lee - The West Yorkshire Ripper #11 West Yorkshire Crime
Brown, Benedict - The Christmas Bell Mystery #12 Lord Edgington Investigates
Browne, Sheryl - We All Keep Secrets
Burrowes, Grace - A Gentleman in Challenging Circumstances #3 The Lord Julian Mysteries
Caine, Michael - Deadly Game #1 DCI Harry Taylor
Carver, Will - Upstairs at the Beresford #2 The Beresford
Casey, Jane - The Outsider Castillo, Javier - The Snow Girl tr. Isabelle Scott #1 Miren Triggs
Chase, Clare - Mystery at Saltwater Cottages #11 Eve Mallow, Saxford St Peter
Chester, Fliss - Death on the Scotland Express #4 Cressida Fawcett, 1920s
Comley, M A - To Catch a Killer #11 DI Sam Cobbs
Cutler, Judith - The Dead Hand #5 Matthew Rowsley, Steward & Mrs Faulkner, Housekeeper, Victorian Era
Dalgliesh, J M - The Dead Man of Storr #2 DI Duncan McAdam, Isle of Skye
Dawson, Lucy - The Night She Lied
Dennison, Hannah - Dagger of Death at Honeychurch Hall #10 Kat Stanford
Dixon, Helena - Murder at the Highland Castle #14 Miss Underhay
Doherty, Paul - Murder Most Treasonable #22 Brother Athelstan
Dowd, Victoria - Murder Most Cold #5 Ursula Smart
Durrant, Helen H - The Ravenswood Murders #2 DCI Alice Rossi
Dylan, Rhys - No One Near #10 DCI Evan Warlow
Ellis, Joy - The Bag of Secrets #6 Matt Ballard
Enright, Robert - The Dead Of Night #1 DS Jack Townsend
Everett, F L - Murder in a Country Village #2 Edie York, 1940s
Farrar, M K - The Night Prowler #12 DI Erica Swift
Farrar, M K - Under the Surface #2 Law of Sandtown
Farrington, C J - Last Stop on the Murder Express #3 Olga Pushkin
Fielding, Liz - Murder Under the Mistletoe #2 Abby Finch, Cotswolds
Fraine, A L - Blood Red Ford #5 Detective Loxley, Nottinghamshire
Frost, Chris - The Killer's Christmas List
Gatland, Jack - Find The Lady #4 Ellie Reckless
Gatward, D J - Dark Harvest #16 DCI Harry Grimm
Gibney, Patricia - The Altar Girls #13 Detective Lottie Parker
Giles, Stewart - The Electrician #25 DS Jason Smith
Greenwood, Ross - Death at Paradise Park #2 DS Ashley Knight, Norfolk
Grimwood, Jack - Arctic Sun #3 Tom Fox
Gunnis, Emily - The Girls Left Behind
Hambling, Michael - Vicious Crimes #12 DCI Sophie Allen
Harper, Izzie - Murder in the Hot Air Balloon #4 The Wootton Windmill Mysteries
Hedgecock, Liz & Harmon, Paula - Death on the Towpath #4 Booker & Fitch
Holliday, SJI - The Party Season
Horst, Jorn Lier - Snow Fall tr. Anne Bruce #16 Chief Inspector William Wisting, Larvik
Hunt, Rosie - Murder on the Coast #5 Lady Felicity Quick, 1920s
Hurst, Daniel - My Daughter's Husband #2 My Daughter's Boyfriend
Isaka, Kotaro - The Mantis tr. Sam Malissa
Isaksen, Jógvan - Dead Men Dancing tr. Marita Thomsen #4 Hannis Martinsson
James, Ed - A Shadow on the Door #4 DI Rob Marshall
James, Jane E - The Son-in-Law
Jardine, Quintin - The Cage #35 Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner, Edinburgh
Kaya, Kerry - Justice #3 The Tempests
Kemp, Martin - The Game
Kernick, Simon - The First 48 Hours
Kobler, Seraina - Deep Dark Blue tr. Alex Roesch #1 Rosa Zambrano, Lake Zurich
Kovach, Carla - Her Deadly Promise #12 Detective Gina Harte
Kray, Roberta - Cheated
Kyriacou, Eleni - The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
Lawler, Liz - My Husband's Lies
Leadbeater, David - The Devil's Reaper # 34 Matt Drake
Lyle, H B - Spy Hunter #4 Wiggins, 1909
Lynch, Rachel - The Rich
Mariani, Scott - The Tudor Deception 28 Ben Hope, Ex-SAS
Marsons, Angela - Bad Blood # 19 DI Kim Stone
McDermott, Alan - Ocean of Wrath #6 Eva Driscoll
McLean, Rachel & Ravensworth, Millie - Death in the West End #2 Diana Bakewell
Messina, Lynn - A Murderous Tryst #11 Beatrice Hyde-Clare, Regency era
Meyrick, Denzil - Murder at Holly House #1 Inspector Frank Grasby, 1950s
Mitchell, Caroline - The Islanders
Mosse, Greg - Murder at Bunting Manor #2 Maisie Cooper
Murphy, Kitty - Death in the Holidays #3 Dublin Drag
Nadal, Jay - Secrets to Die For #10 DI Karen Heath
Natt och Dag, Niklas - 1795: The Order of the Furies tr. Ian Giles #3 Jean Mickel Cardell
New, Jacqueline - Scars of the Past #1 DCI McNeill, Edinburgh
Oliver, Kelly - Arsenic at Ascot #4 Fiona Figg
Pearson, David - The Empty Safe Mystery #2 Wexford Homicides
Ramsay, Danielle - My Best Friend's Secret
Rankin, Ian - The Rise (ebook only) - Novella
Reid, TG - Night Comes Falling #6 DCI Bone
Roberts, Adam - The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate
Rowson, Pauline - The Hayling Island Murders #17 DI Andy Horton and his sidekick Barney Cantelli, Portsmouth
Scarrow, Simon - Rebellion #21 Macro and Cato, Roman soldiers
Smith, Alex - Unholy Saints #14 DCI Robert Kett, Norfolk
Smith, Fiona Veitch - The Pantomime Murders #2 Miss Clara Vale, 1929
Stacey, L H - The House Guest
Stevenson, Charlotte - The Serial Killer's Son
Tyler, L C - A Well-Earned Death #9 John Grey, lawyer, 1657
Upson, Nicola - Shot With Crimson #11 Josephine Tey, real-life crime writer
Walden, Celia - The Square
Walter, B P - Notes on a Murder
Ward, Sarah - The Sixth Lie #2 Mallory Dawson, Wales
Williams, T A - Murder on the Matterhorn #5 Armstrong and Oscar
Wood, Tom - Blood Debt #11 Victor, Assassin

Ten Years of the Petrona Award

Over on the Petrona Award website we've been marking 'Ten Years of the Petrona' and revisiting the first ten winners. What a fantastic set of books and a great present for the crime fan in your life - ranging from dark humour to historical, police procedural to private eye, psychological thriller to semi-amateur investigators, there's something for everyone.

Why not check out the classic reviews and new articles on the Petrona website.

Liza Marklund for LAST WILL, translated by Neil Smith

LINDA, AS IN THE LINDA MURDER by Leif G.W. Persson, translated by Neil Smith 

THE SILENCE OF THE SEA by Yrsa Sigurđardóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb,

THE CAVEMAN by Jørn Lier Horst, translated by Anne Bruce

WHERE ROSES NEVER DIE by Gunnar Staalesen, translated by Don Bartlett,

QUICKSAND by Malin Persson Giolito, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles

THE KATHARINA CODE by Jørn Lier Horst, translated by Anne Bruce

LITTLE SIBERIA by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston

TO COOK A BEAR by Mikael Niemi, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner

FATAL ISLES by Maria Adolfsson translated by Agnes Broomé