Post-mortem vs The Burning Room: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder
Post-mortem
A jogger is running near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario when he stumbles across a near- mummified skeleton in a field. The skeletal remains are studied at the Hamilton morgue by…
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The Burning Room
In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Burning Room highest: The Burning Room 4.0 · Post-mortem 3.3.
- Post-mortem is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 7 for The Burning Room.
- The Burning Room has the widest readership — 3328 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Post-mortem | The Burning Room | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.3 (1920) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (110) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (14) | 4.0 (3328) |
Reception
| Post-mortem | The Burning Room | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1920 | 3328 |
| Editions | 6 | 1 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 182 | — |
| Reading it now | 75 | — |
| Written reviews | 16 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 17655 | 487 |
| Pages | 276 | 388 |