Among the Mad vs Those Across the River: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Among the Mad Among the Mad Jacqueline Winspear · 2009 ★★★★☆ 4.4 328 pages · ≈ 6 h 04 m · Moderate

It’s Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister’s office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of…

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Cover of Those Across the River Those Across the River Christopher Buehlman · 2011 ★★★★☆ 4.2 354 pages · ≈ 6 h 33 m · Moderate

Moving to rural Georgia, a failed academic plans to write a history of his family's old plantation and the horrors that occurred there but instead discovers a sense of unspoken dread among the townspeople and a…

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Among the MadThose Across the River
Hardcover 3.9 (29) 3.7 (86)
Google Books 3.0 (2) 4.0 (3)
Apple Books 4.5 (324) 4.5 (202)

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Among the MadThose Across the River
Ratings 324 202
Editions 2 7
Citations 1 —
Pages 328 354

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