Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
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Dead Beat

Author: Jim Butcher

Narrator: James Marsters

Unabridged: 15 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/15/2010

Synopsis

“The wildest, strangest, best Dresden adventure to date...Butcher’s blending of modern fantasy with classic noir sensibilities ensures that there’s never a dull moment.”—SF Site
 
Paranormal investigations are Harry Dresden’s business and Chicago is his beat, as he tries to bring law and order to a world of wizards and monsters that exists alongside everyday life. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don’t believe in magic, the Special Investigations Department of the Chicago PD knows better.
 
Karrin Murphy is the head of S. I. and Harry’s good friend. So when a killer vampire threatens to destroy Murphy’s reputation unless Harry does her bidding, he has no choice. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler (whatever that is) and all the power that comes with it. Now, Harry is in a race against time—and six merciless necromancers—to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead...

About The Author

Jim Butcher is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and the Cinder Spires novels. He lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrik on June 11, 2020

4.5/5 stars We human don’t deserve dogs, but how about Tyrannosaurus? “Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.” Dead Beat, the seventh book in The Dresden Files series, revolves around the......more

Goodreads review by Chris on July 16, 2009

Book Twenty-five Dead Beat by Jim Butcher "Hell's Bells" count - 13 While I was on my long commute to work (not so bad, as it affords me more reading time), I wondered what the Harry Dresden from Storm Front would have made of the Harry Dresden from this book. I imagine he probably would have been scar......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on April 22, 2019

Best Dresden yet. CAN WE GET CONSISTENT QUALITY PLEASE?!?!......more

Goodreads review by TS on August 01, 2020

4.5 stars. The best book in the series so far, and this is saying a lot given that necromancy is not one of my favourite UF themes. Butcher managed to make necromancy more fascinating than usual by bringing in mysterious dark lore into the story. Moreover, he upped his character work yet again, both......more

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time) on September 01, 2016

Harry Dresden fans, do you know you can get special Dresden character tea blends like this Butters one?? Just food, er, drink for thought. Wonder what he tastes like. Corpses?? I'm 100% in love with the audiobooks for this series. James Marsters gets better and better with each book, and I'm addicted......more

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Praise for the Dresden Files

“Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Fans of Laurell  K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”—Midwest Book Review
 
“Superlative.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”—Cinescape
 
“Butcher...spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally-charged setting. The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.”—Booklist (starred review)
 
“What’s not to like about this series?...It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves.”—SF Site
 
“A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing, firefights, explosions, and plenty of magic. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel’s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner.”—Library Journal
 
“What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden, wizard, tough guy and star of [the Dresden Files].”—The Washington Times

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