City Of Bones: The Mortal instruments (Book – 1) Later Printing Edition is the first in the Mortal Instruments Urban Fantasy series for young adults. Summary Of The Book City Of Bones: The Mortal instruments (Book – 1) begins with Clarissa Fray (Clary Fray) visiting an all ages club, the Pandemonium Club. She and her best friend Simon Lewis are enjoying themselves when she witnesses a shocking incident. A group of teenagers covered in strange tattoos, enter the club and kill another boy. Shocked, Clary wonders what to do when she discovers that no one else seems to have noticed anything. Everything at the club appears normal and she is the only one who can see the kids who killed the boy. Even the body of the boy has vanished. The teenagers see her looking at them, and appear shocked that she can see them. Clary Fray cannot understand what she just saw. Before she can make any sense of this incident, her mother disappears, and Clary herself is almost killed by a bizarre creature. One of the mysterious kids she saw at the club helps her, and she discovers that he and his friends are Shadowhunters, a group of warriors dedicated to protecting the earth from demons. The boy whom they killed at the club was a demon. The young shadowhunter who helped Clary introduces himself as Jace, and she also meets the other two teenagers, Isabelle and Alec. All of them are puzzled at how Clary can see them, for mundanes, as normal humans are known in the Shadowhunter world, cannot see them. Clary, helped by Jace and her friend Simon, now embarks on a journey to find her mother and discover why she can see the Shadowhunters. It is a journey that will reveal many secrets to her about herself and others, secrets that can change her life forever. City Of Bones: The Mortal instruments (Book – 1) has been adapted into a feature film, released in 2010.