How long does it take to read The Ice House?
The Ice House by Minette Walters takes about 6 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 349 pages, about 95,975 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The people of Streech village have never trusted the three women living up at the Grange, not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly vanished. A decade later a corpse is discovered in the grounds of the Grange and Phoebe's nightmare begins. Having identified the body, the police are determined to charge her with murder.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Murder, Investigation, Police, Female friendship
