Published by Point Blank, 22 June 2023. ISBN 978-0-86154-201-7 (PB)
Tuva Moodyson, a deaf journalist, is the assistant editor of Gavrik’s
local newspaper, The Posten . She has developed efficient tactics to deal
with her deafness, but is having to work on developing a new way of living, as
she copes with the personal repercussions of a shooting at the end of the last
book, Bad Apples
Tuva learns that a young woman, Elsa
Nyberg. has disappeared, and phones the local police station for information. The police haven’t yet received any report,
which is not unusual, and the general feeling is to wait a few days before
taking action. However, it’s possible
that Rose Farm, where Elsa worked in the café, holds the answers and Tuva sets
about looking for those answers. Rose
Farm is a curious place; as well as the
farm and the café, it has a nail salon, and is run along the lines of a
survivalist commune. The inhabitants
don’t welcome nosy visitors.
Will Dean introduces the reader
to new characters and gives a nod to familiar faces from previous stories. His world is enthralling and disconcerting,
ordinary and odd, and not a little violent.
The stories he tells are full of tension and surprises, as are the
people. The book does work as a
stand-alone, but new readers might like to take the opportunity to start this
compelling series from the beginning. ------ Reviewer:
Jo Hesslewood Other books by this author: The Tuva Moodyson series: Dark Pines ,
Red
Snow , Black
River stand-alone novel: The Last Thing to Burn, First Born and The
Last Obe.
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Will Dean grew up in
the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of
eighteen. After studying Law at LSE, and working many varied jobs in London, he
settled in rural Sweden with his wife. He built a wooden house in a boggy
forest clearing and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. Dark
Pines was his first novel.
Jo Hesslewood . Crime
fiction has been my favourite reading material since as a teenager I first
spotted Agatha Christie on the library bookshelves. For twenty-five years the commute to and from
London provided plenty of reading time.
I am fortunate to live in Cambridge, where my local crime fiction book
club, Crimecrackers, meets at Heffers Bookshop . I enjoy attending crime fiction events and
currently organise events for the Margery Allingham Society.
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