Femicide: WINNER OF THE PETRONA AWARD 2023: 1 (Vanessa Frank, 1)

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After the stand-alone debut novel, Engman began writing a series about police detective Vanessa Frank, with books Tierra Del Fuego (2018), Femicide (2019), and the upcoming title The Widows, to be published in fall 2020. The Vanessa Frank series is sold in over 20 countries and has been translated into various languages, among them Spanish, Italian, German and Polish. A trecut mult timp de când nu am mai citit un roman atât de bun: personaje vii, foarte bine construite, cu un limbaj foarte colorat și o tonă de defecte ce le fac cu adevărat autentice, o acțiune fascinantă și încâlcită și mii de femei care, din dorința de a fi mai presus decât bărbații, ajung victimele unor criminali înrăiți. Recunosc că primele pagini nu mi-am atras în mod deosebit atenția, dar ce a urmat a fost o furtună de evenimente și încercări disperate de a lupta cu trecutul, prezentul și cu cel sau cei care ucid din plăcere în același timp.

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It feels incredibly significant to win this award. Several of my major idols and heroes in this genre have been recipients of it. I consider it an honour, a great honour. Writing FEMICIDE was a unique experience. The research on the incel movement was very challenging. I was pulled towards their darkness in many ways. Therefore, I also want to thank Linnea, my fiancée, for putting up with me then, as she does now. RÅTTKUNGEN är den andra boken i serien om polisinspektör Vanessa Frank. Återigen visar Pascal Engman att han är en mästerlig förnyare av den samhällsengagerande spänningslitteraturen. Eldslandet (första boken i serien om Vanessa Frank) kom 2018. In questa giungla si muove la poliziotta fra donne stuprate, madri uccise, stagiste scomparse e figlie abbandonate. Una sequela di orrori, che il cosidetto “sesso forte” dispensa a quello “debole” dalla notte dei tempi e da cui si salva solo l’ex militare, che a suo modo riabilita il genere maschile, mostrandone il meglio. La detective, Vanessa Frank, indaga sui vari casi senza lasciarsi ingannare dalle apparenze, sino a disvelare un piano molto più oscuro di quello che poteva apparire all’inizio. Pascal Engman's Femicide is a captivating thriller treading on topical subjects and providing the others with a blueprint regarding how an author can conjure up a titillating story which nonetheless corresponds to the emerging realities of our age and is meant to make the reader conscious of the newfound social ills. The author is relentless in his characterization letting the reader become privy to the inner workings of deranged minds who intend to do harm as a direct consequence of their misled views on the others and society as a whole. The violence is gratuitous at parts, but what is even more disconcerting is our exposition to the thought processes of the culprits. Vanessa is an intriguing protagonist carrying a heavy personal burden, her daughter had died while her foster daughter has moved permanently in Syria, and she makes for a decisive and prone-to-action character who moves forward the story with some brief interludes where she discloses to the people closest to her, her concerns and grievances. I really hope that publishers in the English-speaking parts of the world will wake up and translate the following Vanessa Frank installments, so far 5 books in total, as the Swedish author's pen opens new horizons in the genre's stagnant status quo.Twelve crime novels from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland have made the longlist for the 2023 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. Care Fenici, questo romanzo è sicuramente un caso editoriale interessante; basti pensare che, sin dal titolo, l’autore si propone di trattare uno dei temi più scottanti dei nostri giorni. Il femminicidio è una piaga sociale di ampia portata e di antica radice, origina da diverse cause e in diversi contesti, tanto che non è facile fare un profilo unico, se non tenendo conto del risultato finale: la morte della donna-vittima. Così, quando mi son trovata questo testo fra le mani, ho sentito forte l’impulso di capire come Engman avrebbe reso questo tema spinoso. Fresh, brilliant writing and utterly compelling. I loved it.’ – Peter James, UK No.1 bestselling author of the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series

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Apie ką knyga? Mano minėta detektyvė, tiria jaunos moters nužudymą. Vėliau nužudomos dar kelios ir įtarimai krenta ant jų, smurtauti linkusių, antrųjų pusių. ⠀ In 2021, Jake Davison, 22, shot dead five people in Plymouth – including his mother and a three-year-old girl. He then turned the gun on himself. The award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.

There is an incredible drive in [Pascal Engman’s] prose, and a wonderful sense of dramaturgy. With a light hand he throws you into his dramas. It is irresistible reading.’ – David Lagercrantz, author of The Girl in the Spider’s Web – Millennium series by Stieg Larsson But, as the data shows, this alarming community is growing everywhere, so it could just as easily have been set in London or any other city in the UK – or the world. The late Swedish author and magazine editor Stieg Larsson was the first to trace the expanding violence directed towards women in Sweden today and the first part in the notorious Millenium trilogy ( The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) was published in Sweden under the title Män som hatar kvinnor which translates into English as Men Who Hate Women. The title is also applicable to Engman's novel as it features a wide variety of characters, their social status spanning from the most affluent to the destitute and homeless, each narrating a story with multiple plot strands that unravels with a raw force, reminiscent of the best works by authors of the magnitude of Jo Nesbo and Lars Kepler. The main protagonist is Vanessa Frank who is assigned to the case of a femicide that took place in the Swedish capital and is initially perceived as the work of her boyfriend who may be incarcerated but at the time of the murder had been on leave from the prison. There are some references to Vanessa's previous case, the story of the first book in the saga (original title: Eldslandet), however Femicide can definitely be read as a standalone as it tells a totally self-contained storyline. Perhaps, those who are familiar with the previous work would be more familiar with the characters of Vanessa and Nicolas who are once more the duo of protagonists.