Marina's Reviews > Black River

Despite seeing Tuva head off to the city at the end of the last book, it’s great to find her back in Gavrik, the small town with the big crime rate. So it’s “ hej again” to Lena, Thord and Noora but not Tammy, because Tammy has gone missing!
This is the third in the series and I’ve come to expect weird and fascinating characters and a detailed and believable setting. Will Dean writes a very convincing Swede - the only way you know that this isn’t a translated novel is because he takes the trouble to explain Swedish culture. The previous books were set in the seemingly interminable winter but, in Black River, it’s summer, with round-the-clock light and a Midsommer festival full of folklore.
My only gripe is that there always seems to be some unresolved mysteries in the story.
(view spoiler)[ This time, it was the unexplained lit candle. In my review of the first book, Dark Pines, I mention an unresolved red-herring that actually crops up again here but I still didn’t feel I understood the full story . (hide spoiler)]
I rarely read series’ but I’ll stick with this one despite the unresolved plotlines, rather than because of them.