A Pale View of Hills vs The Monster of Florence: Which Should You Read?

A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro · 1982 ★★★★☆ 3.8 200 pages · ≈ 3 h 42 m · Moderate

In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she…

The Monster of Florence Magdalen Nabb · 1996 ★★★☆☆ 3.3 344 pages · ≈ 6 h 22 m · Moderate

Marshal Guarnaccia feels out of his league when he is assigned to help track down a serial killer, especially when he assigned to work under Simonetti, a man so dedicated to achieving a conviction that he is blinded to…