An Innocent Client vs Black Water Rising: Which Should You Read?

Cover of An Innocent Client An Innocent Client Scott Pratt · 2008 ★★★★☆ 4.2 375 pages · ≈ 6 h 57 m · Moderate

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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Cover of Black Water Rising Black Water Rising Attica Locke · 2009 ★★★★☆ 3.8 448 pages · ≈ 8 h 18 m · Moderate

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…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

An Innocent ClientBlack Water Rising
Goodreads 4.2 (63085) 4.0 (346)
Hardcover 3.8 (26) 3.6 (14)
Apple Books — 3.5 (163)

Reception

An Innocent ClientBlack 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

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