#BlogTour: Black River by Will Dean @willrdean @annecater @PointBlankCrime #BlackRiver #WillDean #RandomThingsTours

Book Synopsis:

Black River is an electrifying return for relentless reporter Tuva Moodyson, from the author of Dark Pines and Red Snow.

FEAR                                                           

Tuva s been living clean in southern Sweden for four months when she receives horrifying news. Her best friend Tammy Yamnim has gone missing.

SECRETS

Racing back to Gavrik at the height of Midsommar, Tuva fears for Tammy s life. Who has taken her, and why? And who is sabotaging the small-town search efforts?

LIES

Surrounded by dark pine forest, the sinister residents of Snake River are suspicious of outsiders. Unfortunately, they also hold all the answers. On the shortest night of the year, Tuva must fight to save her friend. The only question is who will be there to save Tuva?

Black River is available in ebook and hardback now. The ebook is currently only 99p. You can purchase your copy using the link below.

My Review:

I’m such a huge fan of this series which are always fantastic, addictive reads. I was a little worried at the end of the last book when Tuba moved away from quickly and slightly strange Gavrik so I was happy to see her back there even though it wasn’t for a happy reason.

I actually thought we’d seen all the strange characters we could in Gavrik but Snake River is somewhere that literally made my skin crawl when Tuva first visits it. The potential for strange and dodgy things to happen there is huge, especially some of the weird characters there. Sally, also known as The Breeder as she breeds snakes, was my favourite character from there as she made me smile but also shudder due to her strange quirks, especially the descriptions of the snake skin she glues to her nails.

The author does a great job of setting the scene in the book and I enjoyed being back in Gavrik. The small time claustrophobic atmosphere helped create a lot of the tension and mystery in the story as everyone knows each others business but no-one is willing to talk about it which made me suspicious of everyone. The midsummer madness was a fascinating addition to the plot as it brings with it a lot of problems that I hadn’t fully considered before, including insomnia which made for interesting character motivation and means the police don’t think take Alison’s disappearance seriously which I found very intriguing.

Once again the author has written a wonderful book that whilst not fast paced is very addictive and I found hard to put down. The author’s fantastic writing style just drew me into the book and made me feel that I was Tuva, experiencing everything from her point of view which I thought very clever. I’m very excited to read more from this series now, especially as the book ended on a clifthanger as such.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Point Blank for my copy of this book.

About The Author:

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, 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. The second Tuva Moodyson mystery, Red Snow, was published in January 2019 and won Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards, 2019.