Loved it

Picking up just a few months after the cliffhanger ending from Bad Apples, Tuva Moodyson's world has, indeed, changed. She's still Deputy Editor at the Gavrik Posten, still hanging out with best mate Tammy or looking after her little neighbour, Dan, when she has time, still clearing with ease all the hurdles her acquired deafness places in her path, but something is missing. Someone, actually.

Driving near the edge of Utgard Forest one day, Tuva notices something near the side of the road. It's a dog that's been badly injured. The dog's owner is not far away, and Tuva finds herself transporting man and dog back to the Gavrik vet clinic. The man isn't inclined to be talkative, but Tuva discovers he is a local named Bengt Nyberg, and he'd been out in the forest searching for his missing niece, Elsa. She'd been working at the mysterious Rose Farm but hadn't been seen for a while. Always on the lookout for a juicy local story, Tuva starts digging around and before long, her investigation takes her to Rose Farm.

For Tuva's fifth outing, Will Dean has written yet another cracking mystery that would put you off holidaying in northern Sweden. Although, to be fair, it's not quite as demented as #4 was... This time we are introduced to a small and very private survivalist group with a lot to hide. Most of the usual local supporting cast is there too; many of whom have grown or changed in some way as a result of the happenings in previous instalments. Tuva enters the dark, dark world of online forums in the name of research, and somehow manages to find herself right in the centre of the action again. And all the while she is trying to deal with a very raw, private pain.

Loved it! Please, Will Dean, keep them coming.

The audiobook is once again narrated by the superb Maya Lindh. By this point I think we have to agree that nobody else could do it. Maya = Tuva = Maya. I've no doubt that after 5 books I could read a print edition with Lindh's imagined voice in my head, but I choose not to when I can have the real thing.

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