Tuva Moodyson is the deaf, bisexual protagonist of Will Dean's Scandinoir series starting with the novel Dark Pines.

Tuva, a British-Swedish journalist works for a small local paper in an equally small Swedish town while she waits for her mother to finish dying in a hospice nearby. Terrified of the surrounding spruce forests due to her father's death during an encounter with an elk, Tuva works hard at suppressing her trauma despite daily reminders of it, which only comes up once she starts investigating a serial killer in the woods.

Due to her father's death and her mother's emotional retreat in its aftermath, Tuva is a closed off, somewhat grim person. Despite that she longs for human connection, forming several close relationships with residents of the town, one of which treads that familiar queer line between attraction and a desire to be cared for by a warm, emotionally available older woman. Honest and upfront about herself Tuva, perhaps unconsciously, expects the same from the people around her, truly shocked when none of the people she was so sure about turned out to be what they seemed.

Hard working and practical, Tuva places an unhealthy emphasis on her job to the exclusion of her own well being. Despite the opportunity to live and work in several larger, slightly more prestigious, and, crucially, less forested areas while still living close enough to her mother to visit regularly, Tuva chose Gavrik. It allowed her a mentorship under a prestigious writer who could springboard her career when she finally had the chance to leave. 

Then, despite her fear of the forest around her qualifying as a full-blown phobia, she still chose to report on the Medusa case because of its potential to make her career, even though it meant spending an inordinate amount of time there. And, like all good noir journalists and detectives, even once she was threatened by the killer she refused to back off.