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Dark Pines: ‘The tension is unrelenting, and I can’t wait for Tuva’s next outing.’ - Val McDermid: A Tuva Moodyson Mystery 1 (The Tuva Moodyson Mysteries)

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This pine is native to Mexico, but it has been cultivated in many countries throughout the world with great success. She was the inspiration of much of Neruda's later poetry, among others One Hundred Love Sonnets (1960). As its common name suggests, the bark on whitebark pines is a whitish color rather than the typical red or charcoal-gray. A small- to medium-sized species, jack pine ( Pinus banksiana) is found in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. Any annoyance I felt was tempered by the realisation that I actually cared about the outcome – which has to be some measure of Dark Pines’ success.

I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being and become linked to the chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded.

This resinous conifer tree in the genus Pinus is a fast-growing pine that has wide, spreading foliage. The great basin bristlecone pine tree is a medium-sized conifer with a colossal trunk covered in bright orange-yellow bark. Cones from the longleaf pine species measure about 6” to 10” (15 – 25 cm) long and are reddish-brown. Naomi, the eponymous investigator, is asked to track down eight-year-old Madison Culver, who disappeared three years earlier during a trip to cut down a Christmas tree and is generally assumed to have frozen to death.

There are about 111 species of pine tree in the genus Pinus, although some taxonomy authorities offer a higher or lower count. Another unique feature of juniper cones is that they are soft and fleshy with a look and feel of small blue berries. My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. Photograph: Alamy A massive forest is the setting for Will Dean’s thriller, ‘which possesses all the necessary Scandi tropes’. Our wild botanic garden in Wakehurst has 15 of the first ever wollemi pines introduced to the UK in the Coates Wood.

This is intended to be the first in a series, and Moodyson, whose deafness is handled sensitively by Dean, is a character whose progress is worth following. The western white pine also goes by other names like the Californian mountain pine and the silver pine.

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