Holly vs The Burning Girls: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Holly Holly Stephen King · 2023 ★★★★☆ 4.0 448 pages · ≈ 8 h 18 m · Moderate

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died.…

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Cover of The Burning Girls The Burning Girls C. J. Tudor · 2019 ★★★★☆ 4.0 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

HollyThe Burning Girls
Goodreads — 4.0 (55165)
Hardcover 4.0 (369) 3.8 (132)
Apple Books 4.0 (2624) 4.0 (221)

Reception

HollyThe Burning Girls
Ratings 2624 55165
Editions 11 9
Film adaptations 1 1
Wikipedia attention 7597 3467
Pages 448 352

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