Dark Pines: 'The tension is unrelenting, and I can't wait for Tuva's next outing.' - Val McDermid : 1

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

'No discussion of deafness in crime fiction would be complete without Tuva Moodyson, Will Dean’s main character. A journalist in a small town in rural Sweden, Tuva is desperate to write the story that will make her name and get her a job in the city. Tuva’s deafness occasionally throws challenges in her way, but when she finds a link between a recent murder and a serial killer from twenty years earlier, she’s determined to dig out the truth. She does come across some negative attitudes towards her deafness, but takes them in her stride, and generally doesn’t give a damn what others think of her." - Nell Pattinson, author of Silent House