City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments 1)

For readers aged 16+ and those who love a mystical plot.

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray decided to go to the New York nightclub "Pandemonium," she hardly expected to witness a murder—and even more so, a murder committed by three teenagers. Covered in strange tattoos, they wielded bizarre weapons. And the corpse simply dissolved into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the killers are invisible to everyone but Clary, and there's nothing, not even a drop of blood, to prove that a person was killed. And was the deceased even human?

That's how Clary first met the Shadowhunters—warriors dedicated to eradicating demons on Earth. She met Jace—a Shadowhunter who looked a bit like an angel but acted like a jerk. Within a day, Clary is drawn into Jace's world: her mother disappears, and she herself is attacked by a demon. But why are demons interested in such ordinary mundanes as Clary and her mother? And why did Clary suddenly manifest the Sight? That's what the Shadowhunters would like to know…