Local Girl Missing vs The Blue Ice: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Thriller
Local Girl Missing
More
Through swirling dawn fog, they follow the trail of discarded items at their feet: a tube of glittery lip gloss; a cell phone; a cracked make-up compact, broken chunks of ivory powder spilling into the grass. Then the…
vs
The Blue Ice
More
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…
Side by side
The verdict
- Readers rate Local Girl Missing highest: Local Girl Missing 4.5 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- Local Girl Missing has the widest readership — 580 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Local Girl Missing | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (449) |
| Hardcover | 4.8 (4) | 4.0 (3) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (580) | — |
Reception
| Local Girl Missing | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 580 | 449 |
| Editions | 1 | 30 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 179 |
| Reading it now | — | 59 |
| Written reviews | — | 31 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 46 |
| Pages | — | 246 |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Local Girl Missing or The Blue Ice?
Local Girl Missing has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Local Girl Missing 4.5/5, The Blue Ice 3.8/5).
Which is harder to read: Local Girl Missing or The Blue Ice?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Local Girl Missing: Moderate; The Blue Ice: Challenging.