Aftermath vs The Devil's Star: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Serial murder investigation, Serial murders, Police, Mystery, Fiction
Aftermath
“Maggie Forrest wasn't sleeping well, so it didn't surprise her when the voices woke her shortly before four o'clock one morning in early May, even though she had made sure before she went to bed that all the windows in the house were shut fast.”
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Number 35 The Hill is a house in an ordinary street, owned by an apparently ordinary young couple. When constables Janet Taylorand Dennis Morrisey are sent to the house following a report ofa disturbance, they stumble…
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The Devil's Star
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Detective Harry Hole: an angry and off-the-rails detective who wants to play the game by his own rules. A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid…
1 film adaptation
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The verdict
- Readers rate The Devil's Star highest: The Devil's Star 4.5 · Aftermath 4.1.
- Aftermath has the widest readership — 10328 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Aftermath | The Devil's Star | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (10328) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.5 (4) | 4.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (152) | 4.5 (559) |
Reception
| Aftermath | The Devil's Star | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 10328 | 559 |
| Editions | 32 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 2941 | — |
| Reading it now | 973 | — |
| Written reviews | 497 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 196 | 3089 |
| Pages | 464 | — |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Aftermath or The Devil's Star?
The Devil's Star has the higher combined reader rating across sources (The Devil's Star 4.5/5, Aftermath 4.1/5).
Have both books been made into films?
Aftermath: no film adaptation on record; The Devil's Star: 1 film adaptation.