Linda's Reviews > Ice Town

Will Dean always writes books that terrify me, they are usually claustrophobic and so plausible.
In the 6th book in the Tuva Moodyson series we have a small Swedish town, Esseberg that is only accessible by a tunnel and the tunnel is shut at night cutting the town off from the outside world. In this town a young deaf boy, Peter has gone missing. Tuva, a journalists, thinks there is a good story in this and she also wants to help look for him as being deaf herself she feels she understands how he must be feeling.
From the start there is a brooding sense to the town, with its feeling of isolation under the mountains and the grand hotel that sits at the top of the mountain accessible only by a chairlift now the road has closed to there.
Soon more bodies are found in the snow and as Peter hasn’t been found, he becomes the main suspect along with Ingvar Persson the man who operates the chairlift for the skiers, and has had past convictions.
It’s a great story with the place and atmosphere playing a big part in the thrill of the book.
There are quite a few red herrings and I was completely wrong in who I thought the murderer was. It’s a page turning read.

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