These books based around reporter Tuva are so atmospheric. They are set in a remote location and this is upped even more by the creepy goings on in nearby town Visberg. Tuva is driving home when she hears a woman crying in the woods and finds her over a decapitated body. The villain is suitably creepy and the end is unexpected. Thanks to Netgalley for an ARC.

Will Dean has a way of gripping the reader from the outset with Bad Apples. Quite often the reader feels s/he is being taken in a certain direction to then find the outcome is not what was expected.
It seems to be a prerequisite for the main characters in today’s detective and mystery novels to have some sort of hang-ups or emotional problems and, although these make them more relatable, I sometimes find those issues overshadow the story. Dean’s central character, Tuvs, does experience difficulties arising from her deafness, but this is not overplayed. Instead, Dean uses this to weave in further complications.
The only difficulty I had with this was Dean’s abundant use of short sentences and statements that tended to cloud the fluency of my reading.
If you want a not-entirely predictable murder to read then this should suit you.
Thank you to Point Blank (OneWorld Publications) and NetGalley for this free copy in exchange for an honest review.

My goodness. Where to start?!

I have read two other of Will Dean's books this year (Dark Pines and Last Thing to Burn, both excellent) and he is fast becoming a favourite.

This book brilliantly treads the line between psychological thriller and horror, with a quiet sense of ominous threat building throughout. Some of the more disturbing imagery will certainly stay with me for a long, long time... I'm not going to say anything about the plot but will say that the setting is brilliantly described and I almost felt I could see the town of Visberg laid out before me. Perfect for this spooky time of year too.

As the second Tuva Moodyson series book I've read (wrist duly slapped for reading books out of order) I feel I am getting to know the character better, and I like her. She's not a perfect person but rather more real than many lead characters - with frustrations, flaws and weaknesses. Having read this before Red Snow and Black River, I can assure other readers that there aren't significant spoilers for those books in Bad Apples - although at least one plot point is revealed no details are provided, and I am certainly still looking forward to reading those soon.

If you think Halloween can be creepy, wait until you see how this small town in the Swedish hinterland celebrates the coming of winter. The roads are closed. A stack of apples are left to rot in the town square, filling the air with a sickly-sweet stench of decay. What follows is a wild night of debauchery in a bizarre masked festival, where the safety of visitors can’t be guaranteed. And a headless dead body is discovered, deep in the ancient forest…
Author Will Dean has definitely hit the sweet spot with his Tuva Moodyson series of Scandi crime stories. His books bound along with the fast-paced fluidity of an American thriller, but are saturated with the dense, dark detail that makes Nordic noir so creepily compelling. He captures unsettling aspects of Scandinavian customs and the complex, contradictory nature of modern Swedish society, and expresses these themes with the natural facility of a born English-speaker. The result may be a little less stylish than Scandi crime in translation, less unsettlingly alien in its thought processes, but it’s certainly more accessible for most readers.
And he’s centred his stories on an excellent character. Journalist Tuva is something of an outsider herself – profoundly deaf and dependent on hearing aids: more at home with computer gamers than polite society; hesitant to commit to a permanent relationship with a female police officer. She had a reporter’s knack for smelling a good story and getting people to open up to her – which frequently puts Tuva slap-bang in the thick of things. In the sprawling, shadowy forests, during the elk open season, this behaviour puts her in the sights of a high-powered rifle…
With a publication date perfectly timed for the ancient rites of autumn in the northern hemisphere, Bad Apples certainly explores the darker side of our sanitised modern celebrations. Dean has also crafted a genuinely ghastly scene, worthy of any Halloween horror-shocker, which will have you squirming in sympathy yet unable to tear your eyes away. You have been warned!
8/10

Will Dean is on fire with his fourth book in the Tuva Moodyson series. Tuva is settling in to her new role as Deputy Editor, now expanded to take in the town of Visberg, which is to be Tuva’s beat following a takeover of their local paper by the Gavrik Posten. Visberg is a small, mountain town and Tuva is keen to get to know the local people and the key players, the better to garner stories for the paper.

Visberg is a different kettle of fish to Gavrik. They have their own customs and festivals. It’s not a poor town by any means. But the local people aren’t keen on incomers and Tuva finds a culture of silence and suspicion.

This Tuva Moodyson book is a perfect Halloween read. A blend of thriller and horror, it features my favourite characters, the troll making sisters Cornelia and Alice Sorlie who are, of all things, in a pop-up shop just ready for all Hallows eve.

Surrounded by the dark and in elk hunting season, especially dangerous forests, all Tuva’s worst fears are confirmed when she is drawn towards a screaming woman to find the decapitated body of a man and the blood-soaked screaming woman.

Bad Apples is redolent with oppressive smells, sounds and the atmosphere is heavy and full of malevolence. When I was young I used to love the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley with their atmosphere of satanic ritual and abandoning all sense of propriety during the all-important Walpurgis Night, and that sense of total abandon is conjured up in Dean’s celebrations in the town of Visberg.

As we watch Tuva size up the locals as she is introduced by the former proprietor of the local paper whose beat she is now in charge of, we are aware of the stench of rotting apples in the air everywhere she goes; the strangeness of the Watchmaker and his shop, and the endless gamers in The Hive, a dark hut where I could smell the unwashed musky male bodies. Even the local pizza parlour has some strange and unpalatable toppings to turn the stomach. If you think pineapple on a pizza is weird, you should see some of these toppings!

As Tuva tries to get to know people and work out who might give her the best stories, she finds that what happens in Visberg stays in Visberg – quite literally. The town is presided over by one wealthy family, the Edlunds and a fault line runs through the town keeping them on one side and the rest of the town on the other. The Edlunds exclusively habituate the local golf club and being enabled to join is the pinnacle of achievement for any local business person.

Danger is everywhere and Tuva is constantly being pointed at one man in particular as the potential perpetrator of decapitation city. As things heat up in Visberg, we are once more in fear for Tuva; perhaps more so because she has finally found personal happiness alongside one of the great female friendships with Tammy.

Pursuing her murderer, Tammy isn’t always on the right track by any means and we know her fear of the dark forest which is only enhanced by the danger posed by the elk hunters blasting away. But Tuva is nothing if not tenacious and she puts aside her fears and allows herself to follow the evidence. Will Dean’s dark and compelling story leads her into very real trouble where I squirmed more than once as jeopardy battled with weirdness and won.

Verdict: Rich and atmospheric and with a cast of weird and wonderful characters, Bad Apples is a gripping, thrilling story with lots of drama, not a little horror and some fantastic characters that linger in the mind. It’s creepy, tense and absolutely unpredictable. Will Dean gives us pace, drama, action, thrills and weirdness as well as a central character we can’t help but love.

A return for Tuva, Will Dean’s journalist protagonist, who this time is investigating what is apparently the world’s creepiest town with the world’s oddest inhabitants. Atmospheric and unsettling, it’s a really pacy read.

I am a huge fan of Will Dean, both of his standalone novel The Last Thing To Burn and his Tuva Moodyson series of books, Dark Pines, Red Snow and Black River. Bad Apples is the latest in the Tuva series, and is every bit as dark and twisted as we have come to expect from this author. It can be read as a standalone but I would recommend going back to the beginning of the series and getting to know Tuva properly – you won’t be disappointed.

For those who aren’t familiar with the series, Tuva is a reporter for a small newspaper named the Gavrik Posten, in a small (fictional town) in Sweden. She is deaf, has a girlfriend named Noora who is a police officer, a best friend named Tammy and is pretty fearless. Being an outsider to the town, she has had to work hard to gain the trust of the locals and has been rewarded with a promotion and an expansion to the patch she covers; Visberg.

Visberg is situated at the top of a hill on a death-trap of a road from Gavrik. It is affluent, insular, filled with seriously wealthy and influential people and is very weird. Gavrik, or Toytown as Tuva calls it has its own oddities, but Visberg is in a class of its own, filled as it is with inhabitants who are all on the odd side of normal. There’s the ‘Sherriff’ who is also the town Taxi Driver, the Bosnian who fought in the Yugoslav Conflict who nobody quite trusts, the weird sisters from Gavrik who have opened a pop up shop selling trolls comprising of human and animal body parts and the Edlund family who rule the town with an iron fist.

The book opens with Tuva making her way to Visberg, the fog is like pea soup, so thick she can almost taste it. It is so heavy that all sounds are silenced, until, out of the gloom she hears a female scream. She heads off into the woods to investigate, stumbling through trees in poor visibility to find the woman who is crying and calling for help, but when she finds her she discovers far more than she bargains for.

Will Dean has, in the nicest possible way, a very twisted mind. The previous Tuva books have had their moments of creepiness and threat but in Bad Apples it is ramped up to 100. Set in October, it features an event called ‘Pan Night’, a kind of Halloween for grown ups, where anything goes. I won’t tell you about it as I don’t want to spoil the surprise, and I really wouldn’t do it justice, but is bizarre and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I attended an event with Will very recently and he talked about the fictional Pan Night and how the inspiration came from rituals and events held around the world, and, quite honestly, knowing this terrified me even more – fact really is stranger than fiction.

Against the atmospheric background of a foggy Autumn, with apples falling from trees, leaves littering the streets and the odd inhabitants of cloistered Visberg is the hunt for a murderer. Whoever is at fault has some strange proclivities and is very dangerous indeed. It is brilliantly plotted and paced, with enough intrigue and suspense to keep me turning the pages (I read it in a day), but, the star of the show is the characterisation.

Dean excels at writing believable people, even when they’re downright bizarre. He reveals enough of them for us to understand them, to explain their curious behaviour and give the reader enough suspects to try and solve the mystery ourselves. Tuva is her usual brilliant self, leading the charge to discover the killer, putting herself into ever increasing dangerous situations and setting my heart pounding. We see a different Tuva in this book, one whose sharp edges have been softened slightly but who still has a guard up. She is an exceptional protagonist whose female friendships are written with huge authenticity and compassion and I can’t wait to read more. I think this is my favourite one yet. Recommended.

I was pleased to see another book by Will Dean in his Nordic Noir series about the deaf journalist Tuva Moodyson. She has returned to work at the Gavrik Posten again, this time as deputy editor with Visberg town to report on. She gets warned off writing about Pan night in Visberg, a darker more sinister precursor to Halloween. The are a lot of very sinister characters living in the town and she gets caught up in their lives. The Troll making sisters have a pop up shop there which adds to the horror.

It’s a very exciting read and at the very end, just as I was thinking the story was concluding , it wasn’t!! I hope there is a fifth instalment in this series. A great read for Haloween.

Will Dean, what are you doing to us? Bad Apples is enthralling and addictive, I didn't want it to end. Tuva Moodyson hits back in this, the fourth instalment of the series. Tuva is the main protagonist. She's a young, feisty, intelligent and resoureful woman, clawing her way through life, not taking no for an answer. She's a journalist and digs deep to get to the bottom of the story and unveil the truth.

Tuva is back in Gavrik, though this book is mainly based in Visberg, a real place, though this version is in Sweden. Back in the forest, which thrills but also sends chills down Tuva's spine, and mine. Will Dean has the incredible ability to set a scene and make it so it's almost virtual. You can almost smell the pine of the forest, feel the crisp morning chill in the air and with Tuva's heightened sensory feelings, due to her deafness, these become even more real. She's led into the forest by a scream and finds a mans body. Tuva is now a witness and becomes deeply involved with the case. Noova is investigating too and their relationship is back on track and develops beautifully as the book goes on.

Visberg is a small hill town, near Gavrik and Lena, Tuva's boss has got her working on the Visberg Tidningen. It's a new area to Tuva and that means new locals, who don't welcome her with open arms, almost the opposite, the Swedish coolness is evident, like they have secrets. What with the feeling she's not wanted and 'Pan Night' coming up, which she's told to avoid, 'locals only' she's has mixed feelings about being there, but she needs to see for herself. Luckily it's customary to wear a mask and dress up, so no one recognises her, its like a kind of grown up Halloween with no rules or limits.

The mysteries surrounding pan night get darker than ever when a human head is found and this leads Tuva into danger but she's at the point of no return. The towns folk are cagey but scared, they have an us and them side of the town and that doesn't help and they are against each other. Weird troll carving sisters are up against generations of wealthy dentists, who run the local members only golf club. If you aren't part of that, you're clearly no one in Visberg, not anyone worth knowing according to the rich half, but are they in fact the dark half? The cliques won't talk and so Tuva struggles to find information, and suspects everyone.

It does indeed, only take one.......

If you haven't read the first three books yet, I would highly recommend that you do. Will's Dark Pines Series are simply brilliant and transport you straight to the forest on Tuva's heels. Right now it the perfect time to read this book, with autumn setting in, but quite frankly, I would never turn away a Tuva Moodyson book at any time of year.

What can I say about this series that hasnt been said already? TUVA does it again. Another wonderful thriller by Will Dean, he has me well and truly hooked in to this series at this stage.
Tuva Moodyson, finds herself back in Gavrik as she has turned down her job in Malmo to get a promotion in the small town of Gavrik in Sweden. Tuva has been promoted to deputy editor as she will cover the neighbouring town of Visberg as their newspaper editor Ragnar Falk is retiring after many years. Tuva must immerse herself in the local community of Visberg to build up their trust and to get worthy newspaper articles to bring back to her boss Lena.
Tuva finds herself thick in the action again as she discovers a woman in the forest screaming beside a headless body, the local police force of Gavrik is called quickly to the scene and thus begins Tuva's hunt for the truth of who was behind such a gruesome act. The regular characters are back on the scene again which is great to say. Officer Thord and Officer Noora (Tuva's girlfriend) find themselves chasing down clues and leads as to the identity of the victim.
Throughout the story, Tuva encounters all sorts of weird and spooky activities in this cult-like town of Visberg. Tuva dives in head first and interrogates the so called shot callers of this town of Visberg. But does Tuva make it out in one piece? Read for yourself and find out.

EXCERPT: An arm catches around my neck. I fall.

A body on top of me. Heavy. Smells of waxed jacket. A forearm to my face.

'Get off me!'

'Please,' she says.

I roll away and she is staring at me, her eyes bulging and red, her fingers bloody.

'Please.'

'Who are you?' I ask, the fog managing to drift between us, her face breaking up behind the static.

She gets to her knees and stands and I see her jeans are red. Stained. Splattered.

I pull my knife from my bag and she says, 'No' and puts her palms to her face, and she says, 'No, no, no.'

I take a deep breath of forest air, dense with spores and rotten leaves. It's thick autumn air laced with the tang of rot and decay.

'Over there,' she says, pointing into the mists.

I swallow hard and stand up and move to where she's pointing. A fallen pine, its root system flat and sprawling like a metro map. A dash of colour behind. A coat? I clamber over the pine, its rough bark scratching at my trousers like the nails of a grasping hand.

Two boots.

And two legs.

'Dead,' she says.

ABOUT 'BAD APPLES': It only takes one...

A murder

A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated

A festival

A cultish hilltop community ‘celebrates’ Pan Night after the apple harvest

A race against time

As Visberg closes ranks to keep its deadly secrets, there could not be a worse time for Tuva Moodyson to arrive as deputy editor of the local newspaper. Powerful forces are at play and no one dares speak out. But Tuva senses the story of her career, unaware that perhaps she is the story…

MY THOUGHTS: Dark. Intense. Spine chilling. Unsettling. Gory. Almost nightmarish. And set at Halloween.

I read Bad Apples, my first book by Will Dean, with a kind of fascinated horror. I was constantly on edge, at times not daring to breathe as I read.

The setting is the fictional towns of Gavrik and Visberg, a few hours north of Karlstad, a real city, in Sweden. Surrounded by the Utgard Forest, the winters are cold and dark, the animals wild, the towns sparse, insular, and isolated. Even the difference in the inhabitants of Gavrik and the even more isolated Visberg is noticeable.

The characters are outstanding and many exude an air of mystery and menace. There is a pair of elderly sisters who carve trolls, adorning them with animal parts; a clock maker with a macabre basement museum; a mother and son who run a strange storage facility; a Bosnian pizzeria owner reputed to be a war criminal; and twins who run an eerie 24 hour gaming parlour. There are many more characters who range from eccentric to downright scary, so there's no shortage of suspects, and there's plenty of red herrings to exercise those little grey cells.

But there are tender moments too, such as with Danny, the delightful and lovable small child of the warring couple who live next door to Tuva. There is definitely something about this couple, and I am sure that they will feature more in future books.

While Dean may lack the finesse of Mr King, he still knows how to create an atmosphere.

I haven't read any of the previous books in this series, but that is something I intend to remedy. I didn't have any problem with continuity, and Bad Apples is easily read as a stand-alone.

Bad Apples ends on a cliffhanger, but I am sure that there is more to come.

⭐⭐⭐⭐.3

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THE AUTHOR: Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. He was a bookish, daydreaming kid who found comfort in stories and nature (and he still does). After studying Law at the LSE, and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden. He built a wooden 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.

DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Oneworld Publications, Point Blank, for providing a digital ARC of Bad Apples by Will Dean for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.

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I am a huge fan of the Tuva series so was very happy to get stuck into this, the fourth in this excellent series.

Tuva is back in her old stomping ground after having taken a promotion at the newspaper. It also means she can keep an eye on her best friend Tammy, who is still recovering after the events of the last book and can nourish her blossoming relationship with local police officer Nora.

As part of her promotion, she has extended coverage of the surrounding area, including the creepy neighboiring village of Visberg. On her first venture out there she makes a grim discovery and is quickly drawn into the dark and disturbing dealings of this insular town.

She finds herself dealing with folklore, strange traditions, family secrets and some very odd residents. If I was her, I would have kept on driving straight through and never gone back! But tenacious Tuva is never going to let the threat of harm get in the way of her solving a mystery and getting a good story!

With characters old and new, very few of whom I would trust as far as I could throw them (bar Tuva & Tam!), this was another excellent instalment in this series and after that ending, I am very eager to see what happens next!

Much as I enjoyed Will Dean's recent standalone, it is always good to have a new Tuva Moodyson story, and this is excellent. The Swedish setting, the characters and the fascinating plot all combine to make for another very satisfying read. Tuva is back where she belongs, having been promoted in her journalism career, and the story she is investigating is dark and violent. When she discovers a headless corpse in the forest, she is led into a frightening case with a strange collection of individuals which occasionally strays into the realms of incredibility, but this is a great read and very well written.

This is the 4th book in the Tuva Moodyson series, but you don't have to have read the others to enjoy this (I hadn't).
In the deep forests outside the spooky hill town of Visberg, Tuva, deputy editor of the local newspaper, comes across a headless torso.
Working closely alongside the local.police, Tuva gets to know the strange and eclectic residents of Visberg on her quest for the big story.
She encounters Visberg's cultish Pan Night, a debauched pre-Halloween festival celebrating the apple harvest and ultimately finds out what has been happening in Visberg. Truly unexpected to me!
I finished this book in two days, it was that good. An atmospheric mix of spooky and funny, with an excellent main character in Tuva.
Highly recommended. Now I must go and buy the three previous books in this series!

As with the previous three books in this fantastic series this was five stars all the way. Until the end. Until the cliffhanger. Nope, sorry. Not in a series. Not as gratuitous a cliffhanger as the one the author left this book on. Nearly bad enough for me to sack the series off completely. In fact the only thing that has probably saved the author from my total wrath is the fact that I read so many books that it won't be long until I have completely forgotten about it having a cliffhanger let alone what it was!
But I'm still dropping a star...
So Tuva has returned home, to Gavrick, to her old job - well, plus a promotion to deputy editor. She has a new beat to cover, now including the nearby but remote town of Visberg. A strange place all told as Tuva will soon find out. Its remoteness has allowed it to pretty much rule itself and the inhabitants, well, let's just say they have some weird habits... But they tick along mostly well. Until Tuva comes across a body in the woods. Actually, that description is quite apt as it is missing its head! Bit graphic. So once again Tuva is front and centre in an investigation into a heinous crime and she once again employs her journalistic credit and skills to assist the police...
This is book four and it does refer back to things that have happened in previous books so I would recommend you do start from book one and read in order. The story itself is self-contained (cliffhanger apart) so could be read stand alone but you'll miss out on character backstory and development if you do this. They're all cracking reads too...
I really love Tuva as a character, Feisty and yet also vulnerable. She's been through a lot but she has also learned from it and has grown as a character as the series has gone on. Good thing too really given where she lives and what has happened there over the past few books! I also love the dark places and weird storylines the author puts her into, and through. And we don't get much weirder than what is happening herein. Quite chilling and, well I'm a bit phobic so it was doubly dark for me. But it's well told with no superfluous padding or waffle so it gets on with itself very well.
So, all in all, cliffhanger aside (yes I am that angry about it I will mention it just one more time) a cracking addition to an already well established series. Roll on next time... (see I can live with it really). My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

The 4th book in the Tuva Moodyson series and I’m so happy Will Dean has created another location for Tuva to investigate.

In this haunting and chilling thriller, Tuva works a little farther afield in a somehow even more isolated town. Visberg, or the town on the hill.

It’s just before Halloween and strange things are afoot when Tuva stumbles across a headless body in the snow.

As ever the headstrong and feisty Tuva is straight on the case in a story that takes her on her darkest journey so far, in a book full of scares and creeps galore.

The atmosphere is palpable and with returning characters plus some new ones this felt like a series given a bit of a refresh

Red Herrings and Cliff Hangers a plenty, this is a devilishly crafted and scare filled story that assaulted my senses as the denouncement was revealed.

The finale was breathtaking and this is a book that firmly gives me faith in a series I have previously struggled with - Very Good.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Will Dean's latest Tuva Moodyson story Bad Apples is a fantastic, chilling, creepy, Hallowe'en thriller. It is a great read!

In this chapter of Tuva's life, she returns to Gavrik to take up the post of deputy editor of the local newspaper where she previously worked. The closure of the paper in the neighbouring town extends the remit of the Gavrik Posten and introduces a new cast of unusual characters who could all have been involved in the recent murder of Arne Persson.

Dean creates a wonderfully atmospheric environment deep in the Swedish forest, where any one of the unusual characters are potential suspects. Tuva's relationships with her friends, colleagues and local police help her manage the stress and uncover clues to help identify the killer. The cunning plot unfolds at a good pace; at each sitting, I was compelled to read further into the book than I had planned. A great read!

After reading and loving The Last Thing To Burn by Will Dean a few months ago, I was desperate to read another book by the author. So I delved right into Bad Apples, not realising that it is the fourth book in the series. But now I’m once again hooked on his stories, and I know that this is a series that I need to continue with.

I absolutely love Dean’s striking writing with his unnerving descriptions and dark imagery, and this book really got me in the Halloween mood. It’s creepy, gloomy, gruesome and intriguing, and you can really get a sense of the Noir atmosphere with the dark and chilling weather, misty and eerie forests, and the tight but questionable small community.

It really feels like you’ve been dropped into the story with the roads blocked to prevent you from leaving. Because not only is there a murder that needs solving, but the cultish locals all seem to be in on something, too.

My only criticism is that I couldn’t picture Tuva Moodyson in my head, but that’s my own fault for skipping three books. I began thinking of her as a Swedish Vera, but soon realised that she must be a lot younger. I also couldn’t understand her job role as she seems to be the only one investigating this crime while the actual detectives take a backseat. I was also a little confused as to why people were answering her enquiries when they seemed fed up with the intrusion of the media, which she, in fact, is.

However, these are things that I hope to get a better knowledge of when I read the first three books, which I am definitely going to do soon. And whatever the answers are, I already know that Tuva Moodyson is going to be a character that I love!

This is my introduction to Will Dean's writing. I don't think I really believed an Englishman could write 'real' Scandi noir. How wrong I was! Now I can indulge myself with Will's backlist.
Tuva Moodyson is a great investigator. As a reporter she is not hindered by any of the limits of police procedure. The plot has many gothic touches. Visberg is inhabited by a troupe of hideous misfits.
Pan Night is a ritual as full of horror and eroticism as anything in The Wicker Man.
A chilling and cunningly plotted thriller that captivated my imagination and left me gasping for more.

It was the first Tuva Moodyson book I read and it's brilliant. It's dark, creepy, terrifying at times and somehow it sometimes reminded me of Midsommar.
The claustrophobic and closed community, the folk horror elements and the gripping plot made me love this story that I couldn't put down.
Tuva is a fascinating, complex and interesting characters: she's strong but we are also shown her fragility and doubts.
Will Dean can surely write a page turner and I will surely read other books in this series.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine