A Descent Into Hell vs Dead Center: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Criminal investigation, Case studies, True Crime, Nonfiction
A Descent Into Hell
Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an…
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Dead Center
A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office—the largest, most sophisticated…
The verdict
- Readers rate A Descent Into Hell highest: A Descent Into Hell 3.8 · Dead Center 3.4.
- Dead Center is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 7 for A Descent Into Hell.
- Dead Center has the widest readership — 34 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| A Descent Into Hell | Dead Center | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.3 (34) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 2.7 (3) |
| Google Books | — | 2.0 (1) |
Reception
| A Descent Into Hell | Dead Center | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1 | 34 |
| Editions | 7 | 5 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 33 |
| Pages | 383 | 272 |