Which Books Made the Petrona Shortlist?

Just two weeks after they released the longlist of 12 nominees for the 2022 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year, organizers of that prize have released this tally of finalists:

• Fatal Isles, by Maria Adolfsson,
translated by Agnes Broomé (Sweden, Zaffre)
• The Therapist, by Helene Flood,
translated by Alison McCullough (Norway, MacLehose Press)
• Everything Is Mine, by Ruth Lillegraven,
translated by Diane Oatley (Norway, AmazonCrossing)
• Knock Knock, by Anders Roslund,
translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Sweden, Harvill Secker)
• Cold as Hell, by Lilja Sigurðardóttir,
translated by Quentin Bates (Iceland, Orenda)
• The Rabbit Factor, by Antti Tuomainen,
translated by David Hackston (Finland, Orenda)

As a news release explains, “The winning title will be announced on Thursday 8 December 2022. The winning author and the translator of the winning title will both receive a cash prize.”