House of Windows vs The Vanishing: Which Should You Read?

House of Windows John Langan · 2009 ★★★★☆ 3.8 260 pages · ≈ 4 h 49 m · Moderate

When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son, but the tale she weaves, of her…

The Vanishing Wendy Webb · 2014 ★★★★☆ 3.9 344 pages · ≈ 6 h 22 m · Moderate

"Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. So when a stranger appears on her doorstep with a job offer, she finds herself accepting the mysterious yet…