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Dead Beat

Dead Beat

VampireFantasy
Pages
528
Published
2006
Language
English

Synopsis

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, faces a new supernatural crisis. He must confront dark magic and necromancy to protect the city. It's another day on the job for the wizard who always finds himself in the thick of danger.

Prose complexity
4/10

Collected in

Book cover of The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

Vibe

AdventurousTenseMysteriousGritty
QuestReluctant Hero

Genres

Vampire Fantasy Mystery Urban Fantasy Contemporary Literature Paranormal

About the author

J
Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971, in Independence, Missouri) is an American author best known for The Dresden Files, a long-running urban fantasy series following wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden. He also wrote the six-book Codex Alera series and the steampunk-inspired Cinder Spires series. Butcher wrote the first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front, as an exercise for a writing course in 1996, at age 25. He now lives in the mountains outside Denver, Colorado.

Characters

Harry DresdenProtagonist
Donald MorganSupporting
BobSupporting
Waldo ButtersSupporting
LascielSupporting
All characters in Dead Beat

Frequently asked questions

  • Can I start reading the series with this book?

    While the author designed this title to serve as an entry point for new readers because it was the first in the series to be published in hardcover, it is the seventh installment in the narrative. Starting here means missing significant character development and established lore that informs the events of this story.

  • Is this book part of a larger collection?

    This novel is frequently bundled with the preceding book, Blood Rites, in a single-volume omnibus edition titled Wizard at Large.

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