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 Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
 Grave Peril - Jim Butcher ... Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you're the only professional wizard in the Chicago area phone book. But in all Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone loco. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble - and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone - or something - is purposely stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.Newest Review: ... and action! The humour is blacker and more prevalent and there is an underlying sense that this is a series every bit as ... more ... cleverly concieved as any Police procedural and just as well thought out. Jim Butcher has achieved a real masterstroke in his creation of Harry Dresden in a series that crosses The Rockford Files with Kolchak, The Night Stalker!
This is one of the best paranormal series around at the moment and how this hasn't gained a wider following by now is way beyond me- these books should be selling by the bucketload! In this third outing for the unlucky Dresden, we get to glimpse a bit more of his back-story and we are int...more |
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Grave Peril - Jim Butcher: Do you believe in magic? Harry Dresden does and look where t ... (550 words)
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This is the third in The Dresden Files series once again featuring Chicago's only Private Investigator/ Practicing Wizard, Harry Dresden, again embroiled in paranormal matters that are way out of his depth. Something is stirring up ghosts all across town and weakening the barriers between our world and the realm of the Nevernever, his psychotic Faerie Godmother is after Harry to fulfill a bargain he has always avoided and the bigest, baddest Vampire Queen of all Chicago is quite literally out for his blood.....what's a guy gonna do? Magic- it can get a man killed, right? For anyone who has sen the series on Sky One- forget it! These books are about a ... Read the complete review
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