Arttu Tuominen wins Créteil en Poche 2026 prize!

We are happy to announce that Arttu Tuominen has won the Créteil en Poche 2026 prize in France, with the third book of the River Delta series, SILENCED, Tous les silences. The French edition was published by Éditions de la Martinière.

Festival International du livre au format de poche, or the International Festival of Paperback Books, was held last weekend in Créteil, France. The literary awards of the festival honor the authors and paperback books most appreciated over the past twelve months. A jury has selected the winners for each category, and the award was presented on Saturday, June 27th.

The River Delta series by Arttu Tuominen has sold over 230,000 copies in Finland alone and has been published in six different languages.

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Henning Mankell meets Stephen King! Arttu Tuominen’s unique human touch and excellence in depicting characters combined with shocking horror elements brings originality to Nordic Noir.

In River Delta series, 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. In turn, each of the officers of the unit is centered in the narration, having to face their own ghosts from the past.Each novel can be read as a standalone.

ALEC kicks off the new thriller trilogy, CRYSTAL TRILOGY, from Arttu Tuominen, taking the reader to the fells of Lapland, deep into the world of crime, addictions, and the drug trade.