Haunted vs The Missing: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Haunted Haunted James Patterson & James O. Born · 2017 ★★★★☆ 4.5 368 pages · ≈ 6 h 49 m · Light

"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former…

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Cover of The Missing The Missing Sarah Langan · 2007 ★★★★☆ 3.9 416 pages · ≈ 7 h 42 m · Moderate

2007 Bram Stoker Award winner. A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

HauntedThe Missing
Goodreads — 4.0 (24767)
Hardcover 3.6 (16) 4.0 (1)
Google Books — 3.5 (2)
Apple Books 4.5 (689) 4.0 (5)

Reception

HauntedThe Missing
Ratings 689 24767
Editions 18 4
Film adaptations 1 —
Wikipedia attention 531 949
Pages 368 416

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