Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
Gavrik, a small town in the frozen Swedish countryside, the sort of place where nothing happens. That's why Tuva Moodyson, a reporter on the local paper wants to move on.
Two weeks before she is set to leave two deaths rock the community; firstly the suicide of a local factory owner, and secondly, the murder of one of his employees. The killing has the hallmarks of a serial murder, and before long the hashtag #Ferryman is trending.
This, the second impressive novel from Will Dean. It takes Scandi-Noir and mashes it together with the Gothic sensibilities of an art-house movie. The resulting book is dark and decidedly strange in the best possible way.
Tuva Moodyson is surely set to become one of the genre's great characters. A not-quite ‘hero’ in the mould of Philip Marlow, stumbling from one bump on the head to the next, with a hangover and a set of old-world morals.
This is more a study of place and character rather than a book about murder, and the hold it exerts over the imagination. Frosty Gavrik is as brilliantly realised as forties LA were to Chandler; both have mean streets that need someone to go down; someone who is neither mean, nor afraid.
This is a book that brims with promise from a writer who has the potential to be one of the significant voices of his generation.
