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Books - Dead BeatThere's an entire world that exist alongside the everyday life of mankind. THere are powers, nations, monsters, wars, feuds, alliances - everything. Wizards are a part of it. So are a lot of other things you're heard about in stories, and ever more you've never heard of... Vampire. Werewolves. Faeries. Demons. Monsters. It's all real.Harry Dresden knows full well that such creatures exist. Paranormal investigations are his stock-in-trade, and Chicago is his beat as he tried to bring law and order to a worldthat exists on the edges of imagination. Luckily Harry's not alone in this struggle. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don't believe in magic, there's a department that's been set up within the Chicago PD to deal with "strange" cases: the Special Investigations department. Karrin Murphy is the head of SI and a good friend of Harry's. So when a deadly vampire threatens to destroy Murphy's reputation unless Harry helps her, he had no choice. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler and all the power that comes with it - but first Harry had to determine what the Word of Kemmler is. Now Harry is in a race against time - and six necromancers - to find the Word before Chicago experience a Halloween night to wake the dead... Dead Beat Reviews "Dead Beat is the wildest, strangest, best Dresden adventure to date, an intence adventure that promotes Harry into the front rank of urban fantasy heroes once and for all... Butcher's blending of modern fantasy with classic noid sensibilities ensures that there'S never a dull moment in what has fast become one of my favorite series." - SF Site "Take Sam Spade and give him a deadly faerie godmother, then add Harry Potter and put him on the wrong side of town while you're at it. All you'll get it a pale shadow of Harry Dresden." - The Green Man Review "The Dresden Files is on of the best recurring detective fantasies on the market today... an excellent sarcastic character." - The Best Reviews "With an incubus for a half brother and talking skull for a companion and advisor, the antiauthoritarian Harry manifests an infectious charm that will appeal to fans of Tanya Huff's Blood novels and readers who enjoy noir mysteries or supernatural crime series like Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series... offbeat humor, a hard-boiled style, and rich detail... highly recommnded." - Library Journal "Harry is simply a great character with an instantly entertaining narrative voice, and Butcher is an accomplished enough writer to make sure it spans both the amusing and distinctly dark and disturbing." - SF Crownsnest |