A review by hpuphd
Fire Will Freeze by Margaret Millar

2.0

The worst thing to say about this book is that its various elements fail to come together, and (second worst thing, I guess) that this disjointedness impedes the reader’s engagement. At times, the book seems a social satire, a suspense thriller, a Gothic romance, a whodunit with snow-bound travelers marooned in a house. The characters also lean toward the stereotypical. It is an early novel (1944) by Margaret Millar, who later wrote much better books, and last year or so I read three of them: The Iron Gates (1945), Beast in View (the Edgar Allan Poe award winner for best novel of 1955), and An Air That Kills (1957). Two stars mean “it was okay,” and that fits this excusable misfire by a talented novelist.