Plot: In the forest of an isolated Swedish town during hunting season, with gunshots ringing left, right and centre, a body is found. And this isn’t a first: the town was home to the “Medusa” murders in the 1990s where bodies turned up with their eyes missing. Tuva is a deaf reporter who hates the forest and longs to return to the city, but this is a story that could make her career. Are the murders connected and can she find the root of it all?

My thoughts: I know a lot of people love this and it’s been very popular, but I’m sorry – I just wasn’t a massive fan! Normally I love isolated landscapes like this but I think I struggled to identify with someone who found the setting in the forest scary rather than somewhere to explore and who longed to be back in the city, and that’s so much unlike me. I can totally understand the fear of a murderer being out there in the woods, but most of the time the fear was of the woods themselves not the murderer. I also love a good murder mystery or crime thriller, but this didn’t hold enough intrigue for me – I ended up not even all that fussed about knowing who the murderer was! I tried hard to take my time and get into it at first but I ended up rushing through parts as I got further in as I just wasn’t really connecting. I can understand why people like it, but sadly just not for me!
There were of course some good parts: the medley of characters throughout were certainly interesting, from the sisters who make trolls in the woods to the strange taxi driver with a young son. I also enjoyed having a main character who differed from the usual, being a deaf reporter but not forcing this as a plot device.