The Color of Death vs The Quick Red Fox: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Color of Death The Color of Death Trey Gowdy & Christopher Greyson · 2025 ★★★★☆ 4.5 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Moderate
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From the number-one New York Times bestselling author and FOX News host Trey Gowdy comes a dark mystery debut about a murder in a small South Carolina town. Assistant DA Colm Truesdale must pick up the pieces of his own…

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Cover of The Quick Red Fox The Quick Red Fox John D. MacDonald & Lee Child ★★★★☆ 4.0 Unknown
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The Quick Red Fox (1964) is the fourth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. In it, McGee is hired to aid a fictitious Hollywood star named Lysa Dean who is being blackmailed with revealing photographs.

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

The Color of DeathThe Quick Red Fox
Hardcover 3.2 (2) 3.8 (14)
Apple Books 4.5 (418) 4.0 (248)

Reception

The Color of DeathThe Quick Red Fox
Ratings 418 248
Editions 5 —
Wikipedia attention 213 191
Pages 288 —

Questions readers ask

Which is rated higher: The Color of Death or The Quick Red Fox?

The Color of Death has the higher combined reader rating across sources (The Color of Death 4.5/5, The Quick Red Fox 4.0/5).

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