Arttu Tuominen nominated for two awards in France!

Arttu Tuominen’s success in France continues as two of his books receive prestigious award nominations!

Silenced (Tous les silences) has been shortlisted as one of the eight novels for the Prix Le Point du Polar Européen, an annual award recognizing the best crime or thriller novel by a European author.

Jeopardy (La Revanche) has been listed as one of the ten finalists for the Prix du Meilleur Polar Points, further solidifying Tuominen’s reputation as a force in Nordic crime fiction.

Huge congratulations to Arttu! Winners will be announced early April at the Quais Polar festival!

“Arttu Tuominen, one of the rising stars of Nordic crime fiction. […] A captivating noir novel.”
– Le Figaro

The RIVER DELTA series by Arttu Tuominen has seen commercial success and garnered praise from readers and critics alike, both at home and abroad. In Finland alone, the series has sold over 230,000 copies. And to cement his status, Arttu Tuominen was voted top crime author by The Finnish Whodunnit Society in 2024.

Arttu Tuominen’s work has been compared to Henning Mankell, Jø. Nesbo and Stephen King. The series has risen to Spiegel Bestselling list in Germany and he was the first Finnish writer to be awarded with the Danish Palle Rosenkrantz Award, for book #2, JEOPARDY. He was also shortlisted for the Glass Key Award in 2021.

Set in the city of Pori by the Gulf of Bothnia, a Finnish police unit has to solve crimes that force them to consider their own acts and values. The series has sold to 6 territories, and each book can be read as a standalone.

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“Arttu Tuominen’s thrillers are characterized by their solid style and skillful twists. Add to that the fact that Tuominen chooses current, socially engaged themes in his books. His work is among the best from Scandinavia.’
– Claudia van der Werf, Editor, De Fontein

River Delta #1: The Oath (2019): A Touching crime novel about secrets and guilt. Commissioner Jari Paloviita works on a murder case where the prime suspect is on old friend he feels indebted to.

River Delta #2: Jeopardy (2020): The grenade attack on the restaurant claims casualties – and at the same time threatens to expose Chief Commissioner Herik Oksman’s life-long secret.

River Delta #3: Silenced (2021): Pori police detectives Jari Paloviita, Linda Toivonen and Henrik Oksman are faced with an exceptionally cruel series of international crimes against elderly citizens.

River Delta #4: Shamed (2022): An investigation into a girl’s murder takes the police into the world of predators on the Internet and becomes personal for Linda Toivonen, whose daughter knew the victim.

River Delta #5: The Liberator (2023): The charred body of a man is discovered on a sports field in Pori. The victim had been doused with petrol and set on fire. Suspicions are directed at a group of young adults known to have harassed rough sleepers in the past.

River Delta #6: The Stager (2024):  On a remote forest farm a cruel killing is revealed. A family – mother, father, and their daughter – have all been murdered and embalmed, staged to watch television with their dog dead quiet by their feet. The killer is nicknamed Stager.