Death on Cromer Beach vs The Blue Ice: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Thriller
Death on Cromer Beach
'Ross Greenwood doesn’t write clichés. What he has written here is a fast-paced, action-filled puzzle with believable characters that's spiced with a lot of humour' Kath Middleton A brutal double murder on a Norfolk…
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The Blue Ice
Ten years after George Farnell's disappearance, two lines of poetry and a lump of mineral ore are found. It's enough to send mineral expert Bill Gansert to Norway. But word of his findings has leaked out and Gansert…
The verdict
- Readers rate Death on Cromer Beach highest: Death on Cromer Beach 4.0 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- The Blue Ice is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 8 for Death on Cromer Beach.
- The Blue Ice has the widest readership — 449 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Death on Cromer Beach | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (449) |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (1) | 4.0 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (133) | — |
Reception
| Death on Cromer Beach | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 133 | 449 |
| Editions | 3 | 30 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 179 |
| Reading it now | — | 59 |
| Written reviews | — | 31 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 46 |
| Pages | 448 | 246 |