City of Lost Souls

Its place in The Mortal Instruments

City of Lost Souls is book 5 in the The Mortal Instruments series. It follows City of Fallen Angels. It is followed by City of Heavenly Fire. See the full The Mortal Instruments reading order.

Clary Fray's ordinary New York teenage life ends the night she watches a boy get murdered in a nightclub -- and then watches his body disappear, because nobody else in the room could see him at all. Clary is dragged into the hidden world of Shadowhunters, warriors who hunt demons and keep the balance between the mundane world and the supernatural one, and discovers she's one of them, with a mother who's spent her whole life hiding that fact. As Clary trains alongside the enigmatic Jace Wayland and uncovers a…