"The wildest strangest best Dresden adventure to date...Butcher's blending of modern fantasy
with classic noir sensibilities ensures that there's never a dull moment."-SF Site
Paranormal investigations are Harry Dresden's business and Chicago is his beat as he tries to
bring law and order to a world of wizards and monsters that exists alongside everyday life. And
though most inhabitants of the Windy City don't believe in magic the Special Investigations
Department of the Chicago PD knows better. Karrin Murphy is the head of S. I. and Harry's
good friend. So when a killer vampire threatens to destroy Murphy's reputation unless Harry
does her bidding he has no choice. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler (whatever that is)
and all the power that comes with it. Now Harry is in a race against time-and six merciless
necromancers-to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead...
