Cross vs Paradise Valley: Which Should You Read?

Cross Ken Bruen · 2008 ★★★★☆ 4.1 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Moderate

A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate how the brutal death reflects the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalized. No further action is taken. Then the sister of…

Paradise Valley C. J. Box · 2017 ★★★★☆ 4.5 443 pages · ≈ 8 h 12 m · Moderate

"For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. And she…