City of Bones vs Lost Light: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Police in fiction, Harry Bosch, Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Investigation
City of Bones
On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an…
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Lost Light
When he left the LAPD, Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a movie set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Lost Light has the widest readership — 1165 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| City of Bones | Lost Light | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 4.1 (122) | 4.0 (134) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (12) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1119) | 4.5 (1165) |
Reception
| City of Bones | Lost Light | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1119 | 1165 |
| Editions | 13 | 12 |
| Citations | 1 | — |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 59 | 623 |
| Pages | 396 | 364 |