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Ice Trap
Ice Trap
Author: Kitty Sewell
ISBN-13: 9781416539971
ISBN-10: 1416539972
Publication Date: 2/5/2008
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 43 ratings
Publisher: Touchstone
Book Type: Hardcover
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Ladyslott avatar reviewed Ice Trap on + 113 more book reviews
Dr. Dafydd Woodruff's marriage is falling apart. The inability to have children has both David and his wife Isabel struggling to maintain the relationship though Isabel is bitterly disappointed in this failure. Things only take a turn from the worse when Dafydd receives a letter from a young girl maintaining that she and her twin brother are his children from a relationship 15 years earlier. Insisting that this is impossible, Dafydd is stunned when the DNA tests he demanded prove he is the father. Deciding that in order to prove his innocence Dafydd leaves Isabel and travels back to Moose Creek, in the Canadian Northwest Territories. It was here Dafydd came 15 years earlier, trying to forget the medical error he made and hoping to rebuild his confidence. Taking an interim position he has a difficult relationship with the caustic head nurse Sheila, who is now claiming he is the father of her children.

This is one of those stories, where you are almost positive that the main character is being expertly played, and you enjoy watching the cat and mouse game between Daffyd and Sheila as the psychological tension ratchets up. The barren town of Moose Creek is a perfect setting for this mystery, with its cast of eccentric characters and the bitter weather as a chilling background. Although some of the resolutions seem a little implausible, overall I enjoyed this suspense tale very much.
reviewed Ice Trap on
The mystery here is interesting, but you may figure it out before the end of the book. What makes this book really good is the way the author paints a picture of life in remote, sub-Arctic, Canada.
alleyoop0808 avatar reviewed Ice Trap on + 18 more book reviews
very interesting story. She must of lived most of this. Too real to be fiction.