A deaf journalist investigates the case of an eyeless corpse in a promising debut novel set in rural SwedenA deep,dank forest, a desperate young Swedish blonde trapped in her vehicle, and a belligerent elk bearing down on herSo far,so Scandi? dim Pines has all the tropes of the subgenre – gloomy weather (the pine needles are dim and sodden and the moss is brown and the birches are naked. My sprint reads two degrees above zero”), trees, and neighbourhood weirdos,and of course elks. The surprise is that it is the debut of British writer Will Dean, who moved to rural Sweden in 2012.
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Source: guardian.co.uk