Mortal Stakes vs The Professional: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Spenser, Extortion, Boston, Private investigators, Mystery, Fiction
Mortal Stakes
Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing fast balls or…
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The Professional
A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw &…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Professional has the widest readership — 8259 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Mortal Stakes | The Professional | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (8259) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (23) | 3.9 (15) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (403) | 4.0 (355) |
Reception
| Mortal Stakes | The Professional | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 403 | 8259 |
| Editions | 8 | 8 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 1497 |
| Reading it now | — | 530 |
| Written reviews | — | 666 |
| Wikipedia attention | 128 | 76 |
| Pages | 330 | 289 |