Dr. Dafydd Woodruff, a married British surgeon, receives a letter from a young girl claiming he is her and her twin brother's father. He knows this can't be true, as he believes he never was with her mother Sheila, a nurse at the clinic he worked at in Canada 15 years ago. He was in Canada as a penance for a botched surgery he did after a drunken night.
The book is him remembering the time in Canada and the people he met and treated. It also reviews his relationships with co-workers and others. It tells of his sexual exploits and failures. It also is in present time and his failing relationship with his wife who thinks he is lying when DNA tests say he is the father.
The ending is a twist, but not enough to save the book for me. ( )

A debut novel of suspense. I found it a little slow, but overall enjoyed the book. The chapters alternate between 2006 and 1992 for the first part. I thought this was interesting because you learned about the characters from different views.

Dr. Dafydd Woodriff is a successful surgeon in Cardiff and married to Isabel. They have been trying to have a baby with no success. He receives a letter from a 13 year old girl, Miranda saying that he is her father and the father of her twin brother. 14 years earlier Dafydd had been looking to get away from his life and spent 10 months in Moose Creek in Northern Canada. This is where the letter is from and the mother is the head nurse from the hospital where Dafydd had worked. Though he claims to never have been with Sheila, the DNA tests shows he is the father. This news hurts Dafydd's marriage and he eventually decides to go to Canada to sort things out. ( )

I'm not sure why I forced myself to finish this novel. I was not enjoying it as I read it. I disliked all of the characters, including Dafydd.

Sheila was particularly despicable. No one truly seemed to care about each other. Nor did any of the characters seem to truly understand each other. I came away from this story feeling that the characters were only acting the way they did in order to develop a forced plot.

The title of the story was Ice Trap: A Novel of Psychological Suspense. I didn't find any psychological suspense.

Kirkus Reviews described this book as "laced with erotic scenes". Where? I think it must have been describing an entirely different book.

J.S. Lance called this book "chilling and compelling". The only thing chilling in this book was its icy setting, and the only thing compelling for me was to finish this book and be done with it.

Sorry. This book did not at all leave me with a favorable impression. ( )

I wish I would have read the reviews before I read the book. ( )

Ice Trap, Kitty Sewell. 2005. I downloaded this on my kindle to take to the beach, and it was a good book to read at the beach. Dafydd Woodruff is a successful surgeon in Cardiff, Wales. He has a wife he adores and they are trying to conceive a child. Their life is turned inside out and upside down when David receives a letter from the Northwest Territory from a girl claiming to be his daughter. He knows this is impossible especially considering that she says that her mother is a nurse David found despicable. The story is told in flashbacks from David’s first stay in Canada and the present when he returns to straighten out the mess. This is a readable suspenseful novel, but not a great one. ( )