Grave Peril

Harry Dresden makes his living as a wizard for hire in Chicago, and the work has never been gentle. Over the years he has run up against giant scorpions, lustful vampires and savage werewolves, and he has the scars to show for it. In this third Dresden Files novel, though, the trouble comes from somewhere new.

The city's dead have turned on the living. Ghosts are turning up all over Chicago, and these are no harmless spirits rattling doors or moaning in the dark. They are anguished, violent and capable of killing. Harry soon suspects they are not acting on their own: someone, or something, is deliberately provoking them and aiming their rage at the living.

What unsettles him most is how personal it feels. Too many of the victims are connected to him, which suggests the attacks are about more than random haunting. Harry has to learn who is behind the unrest and what they want before the pattern closes in on him. If he fails, he may end up joining the restless dead himself.