The Burning Room vs Who Buries the Dead: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Burning Room The Burning Room Michael Connelly · 2014 ★★★★☆ 4.0 388 pages · ≈ 7 h 11 m · Moderate

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…

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Cover of Who Buries the Dead Who Buries the Dead C. S. Harris · 2015 ★★★★☆ 4.4 356 pages · ≈ 6 h 36 m · Moderate

Investigating the brutal murder of a socially ambitious plantation owner in early 19th-century London, Sebastian St. Cyr discovers a link between the case and the 17th-century beheading of King Charles. "London, 1813.…

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The Burning RoomWho Buries the Dead
Hardcover 4.0 (110) 3.8 (15)
Apple Books 4.0 (3328) 4.5 (273)

Reception

The Burning RoomWho Buries the Dead
Ratings 3328 273
Editions 1 2
Film adaptations 1 —
Pages 388 356

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