Killing Floor vs Owls Don't Blink: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: American Detective and mystery stories, Thriller
Killing Floor
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody.…
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Owls Don't Blink
Cool & Lam Mystery #6 (1942) New York lawyer Emory Hale hires Los Angeles duo Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to find person-of-interest Roberta Fenn in New Orleans. For a client Hale refuses to name. Because there's…
The verdict
- Readers rate Killing Floor highest: Killing Floor 4.1 · Owls Don't Blink 3.9.
- Owls Don't Blink is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 8 for Killing Floor.
- Killing Floor has the widest readership — 359815 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Killing Floor | Owls Don't Blink | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (359815) | — |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (1) | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (4943) | 4.0 (17) |
Reception
| Killing Floor | Owls Don't Blink | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 359815 | 17 |
| Editions | 64 | 9 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 182837 | — |
| Reading it now | 24831 | — |
| Written reviews | 16336 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 9781 | 523 |
| Pages | 475 | 277 |