The Blue Ice vs The Gray and Guilty Sea: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Blue Ice The Blue Ice Hammond Innes · 1948 ★★★★☆ 3.8 246 pages · ≈ 4 h 33 m · Challenging

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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Cover of The Gray and Guilty Sea The Gray and Guilty Sea Scott William Carter · 2010 ★★★★☆ 4.5 268 pages · ≈ 4 h 58 m · Moderate

"Carter's writing is on target." - Publishers WeeklyA curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable.After his wife's brutal murder in New York,…

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Scores by source

The Blue IceThe Gray and Guilty Sea
Goodreads 3.8 (449) —
Hardcover 4.0 (3) 3.5 (4)
Google Books — 3.0 (1)
Apple Books — 4.5 (2452)

Reception

The Blue IceThe Gray and Guilty Sea
Ratings 449 2452
Editions 30 2
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 179 —
Reading it now 59 —
Written reviews 31 —
Wikipedia attention 46 —
Pages 246 268

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