Filled with "kickass adventure and supernatural fireworks," Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels have been compared to Harry Potter with "an adult tone and attitude" (News-Star, Monroe, LA). Now, Harry Dresden must save Chicago from black magic and necromancy--all in a day's work for the city's only professional wizard.

Now in hardcover from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Dresden Files." Harry Dresdenas faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicagoas only professional wizard. But in all of Harryas years of supernatural sleuthing, heas never faced anything like this: the spirit worldas gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing troubleaand not just of the door-slamming, abooa- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someoneaor somethingais stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesnat figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.

Could a werewolf be loose in Chicago? Common sense says no. The grisly evidence says yes. So does Harry Dresden. And with his weird connections, he should know....