Review 202: The Ice House

The Ice House by Laura Lee Smith
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A Scottish immigrant Johnny married well to a daughter of an ice plant owner. They get the plant and run it, now, years later are now facing shutdown due to a huge OSHA fine. Of course they are fighting it, but the lawyers haven’t found much to go on yet. Johnny and Pauline suspect there are people across the street dealing drugs, maybe making meth and caused the accident. So far there is nothing to prove this theory.

Meanwhile Johnny collapses due to a brain tumor, now he has to take it easy for two weeks before the surgery, no working. Perfect time to head to Scotland for a few days to see about patching things up with his son Corran, who now has little baby Lucy to look after. Corran's wife is in prison for drug trafficking and he is trying to keep clean. Working on the oil rigs in the North Sea helped, no way to get anything there, plus it's good money. But who will look after Lucy.

Although a little on the longer side, it didn’t feel like there was padding and something to be taken out, the story just unfolded naturally and that was the number of pages it needed to be said.

I enjoyed the book, decent book.