TWO BODIES
One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? And who’s really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik?
TWO COINS
Black Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man’s eyes. The hashtag #Ferryman starts to trend as local people stock up on ammunition.
TWO WEEKS
Tuva Moodyson, deaf reporter at the local paper, has a fortnight to investigate the deaths before she starts her new job in the south. A blizzard moves in. Residents, already terrified, feel increasingly cut-off. Tuva must go deep inside the Grimberg factory to stop the killer before she leaves town for good. But who’s to say the Ferryman will let her go?
Red Snow was hotly anticipated by me that’s for sure and rather than devour it I’ve taken my time, such beautiful writing and a return to Tuva’s world has made for a purely joyful reading experience and having read the last couple of chapters this morning I’m sad to see it go.
Tuva really is an extraordinary character, Red Snow finds her involved with an intriguing family dynamic as she prepares to leave Gavrik behind her and move on. A suicide, a murder and a hidden agenda makes for a tough investigation for her and it is fascinating and addictive.
Turns out Dark Pines was not a fluke, once again Will Dean brings an immersive and descriptively beautiful sense of place to proceedings. Red Snow is a chilling read in more ways than one, you live it right alongside Tuva – the town of Gavrik, it’s surrounds and it’s people brought to vivid and emotional life.
The story is a dark, complex and compelling one, the plotting is superb and often unexpected. Overall Red Snow puts Will Dean right at the top of a crop of emerging talent within the literary crime fiction world- fantastic stuff, a pure pleasure from first page to last and it could be said that I’m a bit of a fan.
Highly Recommended.
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Happy Reading!
