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Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands and had lived in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying Law at the LSE and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden where he built a house in a boggy clearing at the centre of a vast elk forest, and it's from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. His debut novel in the Tuva Moodyson series, Dark Pines, was selected for Zoe Ball's Book Club, shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize and named a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. Red Snow was published in January 2019 and won Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards, 2019. Black River was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Award in 2021. Will also writes standalone thrillers: The Last Thing to Burn, First Born, the top twenty hardback bestseller The Last Passenger and One at a Time.
Dean sets the stage so vividly . . . that the case's resolution, when it comes, is almost secondary * Irish Times * Perfect winter reading * Sunday Independent * The heroine is Tuva Moodyson, a deaf young female reporter on the small town's local paper, who is as superbly evoked as the forest she is forced to investigate * Daily Mail * Loaded with atmosphere, brilliant on setting, and Tuva Moodyson just rocks -- Mark Billingham The tension is unrelenting, and I can't wait for Tuva's next outing -- Val McDermid Memorably atmospheric, with a dogged and engaging protagonist ... promises to be an excellent series * Guardian * Loved Tuva. More please! -- C.J. Tudor Brilliant -- Ann Cleeves Another fabulously atmospheric investigation from Will Dean's singular heroine * Heat * Dean's mastery of setting and suspense remain unassailable * Financial Times * [Tuva] is an unusual and alluring character, and Dean writes about her frightening surroundings in exact and atmospheric prose * Literary Review * Creepy, tense and so good! * Fabulous, Sun on Sunday *
