Looking for Rachel Wallace vs The Widening Gyre: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Spenser, Private investigators in fiction, Massachusetts, Boston, Private investigators, Mystery
Looking for Rachel Wallace
“LOCKE-OBER'S RESTAURANT is on Winter Place, which is an alley off Winter Street just down from the Common.”
When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head.
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The Widening Gyre
“I was nursing a bottle of Murphy's Irish Whiskey, drinking it from the neck of the bottle sparingly, and looking down from the window of my office at Berkeley Street where it crosses Boylstone.”
The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex…
The verdict
- Readers rate Looking for Rachel Wallace highest: Looking for Rachel Wallace 4.4 · The Widening Gyre 4.0.
- Looking for Rachel Wallace has the widest readership — 441 ratings behind its score.
- Looking for Rachel Wallace reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 4 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Looking for Rachel Wallace | The Widening Gyre | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (42) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (22) | 4.3 (14) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (441) | 4.0 (341) |
Reception
| Looking for Rachel Wallace | The Widening Gyre | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 441 | 341 |
| Editions | 10 | 13 |
| Citations | 4 | 1 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 110 | 120 |
| Pages | 219 | 183 |