White Night

Jim Butcher

Feb 2008 · Penguin

About this ebook

Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago’s magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Someone is targeting the members of the city’s supernatural underclass—those who don’t possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes—a message for Harry Dresden.
 
Harry sets out to find the apparent serial killer, but his investigation turns up evidence pointing to the one suspect he cannot possibly believe guilty: his half-brother, Thomas. To clear his brother’s name, Harry rushes into a supernatural power struggle that renders him outnumbered, outclassed, and dangerously susceptible to temptation.
 
And Harry knows that if he screws this one up, people will die—and one of them will be his brother...

Ratings and reviews

Not his best but, definitely one of the better books of the series. Some things come back from past books and once again you learn some more about Harry and other characters. With some light shed on past events and future arrangements this is a must read for Dresden fans.

This Dresden novel is less Seamus and more A-Team. Not that I minded the change.. Lots of violence, less self-absorbed angst, a more admirable and less whiny Dresden. Better book for it, too.

The way this plot unfolded, from Harry & company not knowing what the Hells Bells was going on through the climactic ending, I was engrossed. This book in the series displayed a slower pace, but still held my interest throughout. I like this pace!

About the author

A martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives mostly inside his own head so that he can write down the conversation of his imaginary friends, but his head can generally be found in Independence, Missouri. Jim is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera novels, and the Cinder Spires series, which began with The Aeronaut’s Windlass.