When there’s a pack on the hunt, nobody’s safe.
A closed community.
Rose Farm is home to a group of survivalists, completely cut off from the outside world. Until now.
A missing person.
A young woman goes missing within the perimeter of the farm compound. Can Tuva talk her way inside the tight-knit group to find her story?
A frantic search.
As Tuva attempts to unmask the culprit, she gains unique access to the residents. But soon she finds herself in danger of the pack turning against her – will she make her way back to safety so she can expose the truth?
After the horrifying cliffhanger at the end of Bad Apples, I had to start Wolf Pack immediately to see what had happened. Poor Tuva, this author is extremely cruel to her, I wonder if she is ever going to be allowed to be happy?
Well, not yet it seems because, while her private life is hanging in the balance, her work life also takes a sinister turn when a local girl goes missing on the patch of the Gavrik Postern and Tuva is pulled again into a mystery that she doesn’t seem able to just report on from afar. They obviously do things very differently in small town Sweden because I can’t imagine the police here being very keen on reporters meddling in investigations the way Tuva does. Still, here the local police seem to welcome her help as she infiltrates a secretive group of survivalists who don’t really trust outsiders.
I really enjoyed the exploration of Tuva’s reaction to the aftermath of the events of the last book. Her emotions and inner thoughts are laid bare for all to see and feel so authentic and immediate. I also enjoyed the insight into the preppers and their way of thinking and the dive into the internet and what goes on in areas most of us would never visit. I’m not sure I was 100% sold on the ending of the mystery – it felt possibly a little hurried and not totally convincing to me – but the rest of the story more than made up for it.
I’m giving myself a little break before I tackle Ice Town but I’m looking forward to getting to it later in the year. I can’t stay away from Tuva for too long!
Wolf Pack is out now in all formats and you can buy a copy here.
About the Author
Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying law at the LSE, and working many varied jobs in London, he settled in rural Sweden with his wife. He built a wooden house in a boggy forest clearing and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes.
DARK PINES, the first in the Tuva Moodyson series, was published to huge critical acclaim in 2018, was shortlisted for Not the Booker prize, selected for Zoe Ball’s TV Book Club and named as a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. RED SNOW and BLACK RIVER were both longlisted for Crime Novel of the Year at the Theakston Old Peculier Awards in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and RED SNOW was also shortlisted for the Independent Voice Award at the Capital Crime Amazon Readers Awards 2020.
Will’s first standalone novel, THE LAST THING TO BURN, was a word-of-mouth sensation reviewed positively by readers and media alike. It was shortlisted for Thriller Book of the Year at the Fingerprint Awards 2022, Crime Novel of the Year at the Theakston Old Peculier Awards 2022 and the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2022, and was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2022.
THE CHAMBER, the latest standalone thriller from Will Dean, was published in the UK by Hodder in June 2024. Simon & Schuster will publish in the US in August 2024.
Connect with Will:
Twitter: @willrdean
Instagram: @willrdean
