The Bronze Key
core novel 2016 Magisterium
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (29,573 ratings, collected 2026-08-21) |
| Page count | 249 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780804122696 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Call, Aaron, and Tamara begin their third year at the Magisterium, where a fellow student dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances during a celebration. Fearing that a hidden spy inside the school is targeting him specifically, Call joins his friends in investigating the death, sneaking into restricted areas of the school to search for answers. Their inquiry leads them toward a voice-activated safe that can only be opened with the name of a twin brother of Constantine Madden that history has forgotten, tying the present danger to old, buried Magisterium secrets. As the traitor within the school continues operating unseen, extracting information and orchestrating further attacks, Call, Aaron, and Tamara race to identify the spy before anyone else close to them is hurt.
Where it sits
- Universe: Magisterium
- Series: Magisterium core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Holly Black
- Author: Cassandra Clare
Notes
- From the series record (Magisterium): A complete five-book middle-grade series co-written by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, both already credited elsewhere in this canon (Folk of the Air/Spiderwick and the Shadowhunter Chronicles respectively) for different, unrelated work; no author-record duplication involved.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Magisterium: position 3 of 5: previous The Copper Gauntlet (2015) · next The Silver Mask (2017)
Sources
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