How long does it take to read The Burning Room?
The Burning Room by Michael Connelly takes about 7 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 17 of Harry Bosch
Previous: The Black Box Next: The Crossing
About 7 hours 7 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 388 pages, about 106,700 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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 body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random.
Subjects: Murder, Police, Investigation, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Fiction, Harry Bosch
