A review by sinds
The Ice House by Minette Walters

3.0

There were some good, intriguing things about this book: the three women's friendship and how they all had each other's backs, the intertwining mysteries, the growth of the one police officer. But I did not appreciate the author using queerness as bait: there is so much homophobia in this towards the three women, but the homophobia is never actually reckoned with, in part because the women all end up being straight after all. (I know this is part of the time period in which this was written, but still.) I also found the writing style a bit stilted which made this tough to get into, but that may also be the time period.