Dry Ice Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, and our BookBrowse Review of Dry Ice.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

1. What are some examples of the secrets the characters in Dry Ice keep from one another? What purpose do these secrets serve in the novel?
   


2. Is it significant that the book’s first scene is that of a cemetery worker digging a grave?
   


3. When Sam Purdy comes to Alan’s office to seal it off as a crime scene, Alan invites him in, against his better judgment. Was Sam trying to take advantage if his friendship with Alan? What would you have done in this situation?
   

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