Evil in the Family vs The Blue Ice: Which Should You Read?
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Evil in the Family
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‘Will keep you up at night… I can’t get enough’ ★★★★★‘Wow. Michael Wood has done it again… I definitely felt my heart rate increase’ ★★★★★A FAMILY SLAIN When Detective Inspector Foley is called out to a crime scene,…
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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…
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The verdict
- Readers rate Evil in the Family highest: Evil in the Family 4.5 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- Evil in the Family has the widest readership — 953 ratings behind its score.
- Evil in the Family runs the darker storyline; The Blue Ice stays the lighter read.
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How to choose
Scores by source
| Evil in the Family | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.5 (953) | 3.8 (449) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (19) | — |
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Reception
| Evil in the Family | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 953 | 449 |
| Editions | — | 30 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 515 | 179 |
| Reading it now | 343 | 59 |
| Written reviews | 140 | 31 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 46 |
| Pages | — | 246 |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Evil in the Family or The Blue Ice?
Evil in the Family has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Evil in the Family 4.5/5, The Blue Ice 3.8/5).