Dark Pines: A Tuva Moodyson Mystery 1

Chosen for the Zoe Ball Book Club

The bodies were all found out in the woods and they were mutilated in some way, and that’s about all I know. Local people don’t like to talk about it. And the ones that do aren’t worth listening to.

SEE NO EVIL

Eyes missing, two bodies lie deep in the forest near a remote Swedish town.

HEAR NO EVIL

Tuva Moodyson, a deaf reporter on a small-time local paper, is looking for the story that could make her career.

SPEAK NO EVIL

A web of secrets. And an unsolved murder from twenty years ago.

Can Tuva outwit the killer before she becomes the final victim? She'd like to think so. But first she must face her demons and venture far into the deep, dark woods if she wants to stand any chance of getting the hell out of small-time Gavrik.

The debut novel from British author Will Dean (who moved to Sweden in 2012), Dark Pines is set to be the first novel in a gripping new Scandi-noir thriller series with a strikingly memorable heroine. Poised on knife-edge throughout, as the Guardian writes this novel ‘crackles along at a roaring pace, as Dean piles on sinister locals, hideous troll figures and danger in the dripping wet forest, weaving elements of myth into the tale’. It’s a novel to devour in one breathless sitting.