An Innocent Client vs Black Water Rising: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Law stories, Legal stories, Thriller, Fiction
An Innocent Client
A preacher is stabbed to death in a Tennessee motel. The suspect is a waitress at a strip club.Defense attorney Joe Dillard's too burnt out to defend anyone he knows in his heart is guilty.Then he meets the vulnerable…
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Black Water Rising
Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he…
The verdict
- Readers rate An Innocent Client highest: An Innocent Client 4.2 · Black Water Rising 3.8.
- An Innocent Client has the widest readership — 63085 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| An Innocent Client | Black Water Rising | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (63085) | 4.0 (346) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (26) | 3.6 (14) |
| Apple Books | — | 3.5 (163) |
Reception
| An Innocent Client | Black Water Rising | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 63085 | 346 |
| Editions | 6 | 5 |
| Citations | — | 4 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 41076 | — |
| Reading it now | 32358 | — |
| Written reviews | 3320 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 148 |
| Pages | 375 | 448 |