A review by knitter22
Broken Ice by Matt Goldman

4.0

Broken Ice was the second enjoyable installment featuring Nils Shapiro as a clever and insightful private investigator. The premise of this mystery, finding a young woman who has gone missing during the Minnesota State High School hockey tournaments, was maybe not quite as original as the one in Gone to Dust, but I did learn something about caves near St. Paul. While investigating a second young woman found dead nearby, seemingly unrelated to the first, Nils is shot through the arm with an arrow. Nils, divorced and with his own issues, still seems to be able to use his intelligence and logic to solve the investigation, despite red herrings and people that may not want him to succeed. The second book in the series was again well-plotted with well-developed characters, worthy of 3.5 stars, and I'm looking forward to starting the third book, The Shallows.

....When I was eighteen I was dumb. All of us were dumb because we could only be as smart as our life experience would allow. But in the information age, kids can be smarter than their life experience. It's a false kind of smarts, of course. It's not learned the same way. It's learned through words and images on electric screens, not through joy, pain, and shame.
Linnea's generation is not ashamed. Of anything. And shame, really, is the seed of decency. But it's not their fault. How could they be ashamed? They've grown up in a shameless world...