Bad Blood vs Post-mortem: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Meurtre, True Crime, Murder
Bad Blood
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Details the shocking murders--in Terra Linda, California--of Jim and Naomi Olive by their sixteen-year-old daughter, Marlene, and her nineteen-year-old boyfriend, small-time drug dealer Chuck Riley
Post-mortem
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A jogger is running near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario when he stumbles across a near- mummified skeleton in a field. The skeletal remains are studied at the Hamilton morgue by…
Side by side
The verdict
- Readers rate Bad Blood highest: Bad Blood 3.7 · Post-mortem 3.3.
- Bad Blood has the widest readership — 2587 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Bad Blood | Post-mortem | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (2587) | 3.3 (1920) |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Google Books | 4.5 (3) | — |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (14) |
Reception
| Bad Blood | Post-mortem | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2587 | 1920 |
| Editions | 7 | 6 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 981 | 182 |
| Reading it now | 162 | 75 |
| Written reviews | 103 | 16 |
| Wikipedia attention | 226 | 17655 |
| Pages | 343 | 276 |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Bad Blood or Post-mortem?
Bad Blood has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Bad Blood 3.7/5, Post-mortem 3.3/5).
Which is shorter to read: Bad Blood or Post-mortem?
Post-mortem is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Post-mortem (276 pages, ≈ 5 h 07 m); Bad Blood (343 pages, ≈ 6 h 21 m).
Which is harder to read: Bad Blood or Post-mortem?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Bad Blood: Moderate; Post-mortem: Moderate.