By a Spider's Thread vs The Girl in the Green Raincoat: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Baltimore, Women private investigators, Private investigators, Fiction
By a Spider's Thread
The winner of every major literary award in crime fiction, Laura Lippman brings back her complex and vulnerably human Baltimore P.I., Tess Monaghan, in a tense, expertly spun tale of a family torn asunder by forces it…
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The Girl in the Green Raincoat
Bedridden while in the last two months of her pregnancy, Tess Monaghan watches a young woman in a green raincoat walk her dog in the park across the street, until one day she sees the dog running loose, and becomes…
The verdict
- Readers rate By a Spider's Thread highest: By a Spider's Thread 3.8 · The Girl in the Green Raincoat 3.5.
- The Girl in the Green Raincoat is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 6 for By a Spider's Thread.
- By a Spider's Thread has the widest readership — 5504 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| By a Spider's Thread | The Girl in the Green Raincoat | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (5504) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 3.0 (10) |
| Google Books | — | 1.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (89) | 3.5 (190) |
Reception
| By a Spider's Thread | The Girl in the Green Raincoat | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 5504 | 190 |
| Editions | 16 | 8 |
| Want to read | 2159 | — |
| Reading it now | 663 | — |
| Written reviews | 442 | — |
| Pages | 367 | 169 |