Cold as Ice

Book Playlist

Cold as Ice Playlist

by Carolyn Keene

14 tracks

balanced

Jun 23, 2026

This playlist captures the chilly mystery and thrilling suspense of Nancy's winter weekend at Emerson College during the Winter Carnival. The instrumental selections evoke icy landscapes, tension, and the quiet determination of investigation, while the vocal tracks explore themes of innocence, friendship, deception, and resolution, mirroring the book's emotional and narrative arcs in a diverse blend of indie, ambient, post-rock, and cinematic genres.

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Track List

14 songs

1

All Through the Night

Emancipator · Safe in the Steep Cliffs

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2

Call

Julianna Barwick · Pacing

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3

Signal

Heliosphere · Binary EP

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4

Frozen Lake

VOILÀ · Frozen Lake

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5

Fragment II

Library Tapes · Fragment

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6

All Quiet On The Western Front

Volker Bertelmann · All Quiet On The Western Front (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)

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7

The Mighty Rio Grande

This Will Destroy You · S/T

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8

What Have I Done

Anna Ternheim · Leaving On A Mayday (Deluxe Edition)

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9

Cold Feet

Fink · Fink’s Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol. 1

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10

Paper Aeroplane

Angus & Julia Stone · Memories Of An Old Friend

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11

Afterlife

Sharon Van Etten · Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

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12

Friend or Foe

t.A.T.u. · Dangerous and Moving

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13

Back In My Body

Maggie Rogers · Heard It In A Past Life

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14

Don’t Look Back

Luminary Flux · Dream Department

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