Ice Town
the gripping and explosive new thriller featuring Tuva Moodyson
Published on 9. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-3997-1735-9 (ISBN)
Description
ONE WAY IN. NO WAY OUT.
'Deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions hinder their efforts. The tunnel is being kept open all night as an exception.'
When journalist Tuva Moodyson reads this news alert she knows she must join the search. If this teenager is found, she will be able to communicate with him in a way no one else can.
Esseberg lies on the other side of a mountain tunnel: there is only one way in and one way out. When the tunnel closes at night, the residents are left to fend for themselves. And as more people go missing, it becomes clear that there is a killer among them ...
ICE TOWN is an unputdownable new standalone Tuva novel, which will delight existing fans of the series and bring many new readers to it.
'Dean's mastery of setting and suspense remain unassailable' Financial Times
'Deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions hinder their efforts. The tunnel is being kept open all night as an exception.'
When journalist Tuva Moodyson reads this news alert she knows she must join the search. If this teenager is found, she will be able to communicate with him in a way no one else can.
Esseberg lies on the other side of a mountain tunnel: there is only one way in and one way out. When the tunnel closes at night, the residents are left to fend for themselves. And as more people go missing, it becomes clear that there is a killer among them ...
ICE TOWN is an unputdownable new standalone Tuva novel, which will delight existing fans of the series and bring many new readers to it.
'Dean's mastery of setting and suspense remain unassailable' Financial Times
Reviews / Votes
Dean sets the stage so vividly . . . that the case's resolution, when it comes, is almost secondary * Irish Times * Perfect winter reading * Sunday Independent * The heroine is Tuva Moodyson, a deaf young female reporter on the small town's local paper, who is as superbly evoked as the forest she is forced to investigate * Daily Mail * Loaded with atmosphere, brilliant on setting, and Tuva Moodyson just rocks -- Mark Billingham The tension is unrelenting, and I can't wait for Tuva's next outing -- Val McDermid Memorably atmospheric, with a dogged and engaging protagonist ... promises to be an excellent series * Guardian * Loved Tuva. More please! -- C.J. Tudor Brilliant -- Ann Cleeves Another fabulously atmospheric investigation from Will Dean's singular heroine * Heat * Dean's mastery of setting and suspense remain unassailable * Financial Times * [Tuva] is an unusual and alluring character, and Dean writes about her frightening surroundings in exact and atmospheric prose * Literary Review * Creepy, tense and so good! * Fabulous, Sun on Sunday * An electrifying read * Woman's Own * This is a franchise just waiting to explode on a television screen near you... The author's insights intothe unique psychological challenges faced by the deaf light up his highly accomplished storytelling * Daily Mail * A thrilling, chilling read for a wintry evening * Observer *
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
294 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3997-1735-9 (9781399717359)
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E-Book
11/2024
Hodder & Stoughton
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Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands and had lived in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying Law at the LSE and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden where he built a 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. His debut novel in the Tuva Moodyson series, Dark Pines, was selected for Zoe Ball's Book Club, shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize and named a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. Red Snow was published in January 2019 and won Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards, 2019. Black River was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Award in 2021. Will also writes standalone thrillers: The Last Thing to Burn, First Born, the top twenty hardback bestseller The Last Passenger and One at a Time.