Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this
novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series. There's no love lost between
Harry Dresden the only wizard in the Chicago phone book and the White Council of Wizards who
find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks so the
Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in
the Windy City. As Harry adjusts to his new role another problem arrives in the form of the
tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend-all grown up and already in trouble. Her
boyfriend is the only suspect in what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a
horror film. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago but it's all in a
day's work for a wizard his faithful dog and a talking skull named Bob...
