Wolf Pack by Will Dean
When there’s a pack on the hunt, nobody’s safe...
After the traumatic events of the past year, Tuva is back as deputy editor reporting for the Gavrik Posten, but her world will never be the same.
A closed community
Rose Farm is home to a group of survivalists, heavily armed and completely cut off from the outside world.
A missing person
A young woman, Elsa Nyberg, goes missing within the perimeter of the farm compound. Can Tuva talk her way inside the tight-knit group to find her?
A frantic search
As Tuva attempts to unmask the culprit, she gains unique access to the residents. But soon she herself is in danger of the pack turning against her. Can she make her way back to safety and expose the truth?
Will Dean’s most heart-pounding Tuva Moodyson thriller yet takes Tuva to her limits, both professionally and in her personal life. Can she, and will she, make the right choice?
About the author
WILL DEAN lives in the middle of a vast elk forest in Sweden, where the Tuva Moodyson novels are set. He grew up in the East Midlands. After studying Law at the LSE, and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden and built a wooden house in a boggy clearing, where he lives with his wife and son, and it’s from this base that he reads and writes. Will Dean is the author of Dark Pines, Red Snow, Black River and Bad Apples in the Tuva Moodyson series. His debut novel in the series, Dark Pines, was selected for Zoe Ball’s Book Club and shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize. The second, Red Snow, won Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards and was longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2020, as was his third novel, Black River. The series is in development for television. Will is also the author of two stand-alone novels, The Last Thing to Burn, shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2022, and First Born, both published by Hodder. Will Dean posts regularly about reading and writing on YouTube and you can find him on Twitter, TikTok and Instagram.
Review
Although this was not my first Will Dean book this was my first Tuva Moodyson one and I loved it! ‘Wolf Pack’ was fast-paced, and intriguing from the start and I just fell for Tuva. I know I say this a lot about returning to the start of a series but I am in this case as I just want to know what happened to these characters. However, despite not reading anything that came before I still managed to pick up the story and enjoy this book. It can certainly be read as a standalone!
At the start of the book we find Tuva still reeling from the shooting of her girlfriend, policewoman Noora Ali. Albeit she it still alive, the prognosis is not good and requires full time care from her parents who are doctors. She is not aware of her surroundings and is basically in a comatose state. One of the saddest scenes in the book comes from when Tuva calls and talks to her via face time - that hit me hard! Tuva is not copying well and when she finds herself involved in this case she throws herself into solving it as a distraction from her pain. Completely and utterly understandable.
I loved the whole concept of a commune living situation with the addition of being preppers! It's something I always joke (sometimes actually meaning it! ) with my friends about a community living situation - not the prepping bit!
