As I'm up in the frozen north of England this week, it seems rather appropriate to be reviewing a book entitled 'Ice'. Sadly though, this 'Ice' turned out to be more slush than anything else. There was a time when Linda Howard was up there with the likes of Nora Roberts and Anne Stuart when it came to contemporary romantic suspense and her earlier books had led her to be an almost automatic buy (or borrow) for me but around the time of the millenium, it was as though she'd taken a wrong writing direction because something happened to her writing style which has seen her going downhill ever since. With 'Ice', I'm afraid she's reached an absolute nadir in my ...  Read the complete review