Odd Hours vs The Mystery Women: Which Should You Read?

Odd Hours Dean Koontz · 2008 ★★★★☆ 3.7 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

A mystery in Magic Beach, California, has lured Odd to the small town by the ocean -- but is it the call of the deep or the cry of the desperate? Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome.

The Mystery Women Jayne Ann Krentz · 2013 ★★★★☆ 3.7 378 pages · ≈ 7 h 00 m · Moderate

Targeted by a disabled former spy for the Crown who wrongly believes she is blackmailing his sister, Beatrice Lockwood offers her assistance in tracking down the real culprit and eventually falls for the spy only to…