Die Trying vs The Wrong Case: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Montana, Missing persons, Private investigators, Fiction
Die Trying
When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.
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The Wrong Case
Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of Meriwether, in the pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Wrong Case is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 9 for Die Trying.
- Die Trying has the widest readership — 4094 ratings behind its score.
- The Wrong Case runs the darker storyline; Die Trying stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Die Trying | The Wrong Case | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (688) | 4.0 (1951) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (487) | 3.8 (4) |
| Google Books | 3.5 (4) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (4094) | 4.0 (17) |
Reception
| Die Trying | The Wrong Case | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 4094 | 1951 |
| Editions | 42 | 1 |
| Citations | — | 3 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 1515 |
| Reading it now | — | 71 |
| Written reviews | — | 148 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2733 | — |
| Pages | 500 | 272 |