Ghost Story (Dresden Files, No. 13) by Jim Butcher (2011)
I haven’t followed this series at all, although I enjoyed the first couple of novels and the tv show. Harry Dresden is a hard-boiled, smart-ass detective magician sorcerer who solves mysteries and saves the world. Over and over. I found that wasn’t a handicap on this volume I picked up at the library on a whim. Butcher does an excellent job of continuing a story and adding in the information a new or returning reader needs.
Dresden is a memorable character - as likely to stumble into a solution as to solve it with intellect. And over the years, he’s made lots of friends and at least as many enemies. As the story opens, he’s made a grave mistake (sorry, Butcher’s gotten to me) and has to solve the mystery of his own murder - incorporeally.
There was much good back story here, non-stop action loaded with emotional implications, soul searching and discovery.
Not the most profound fiction I’ll ever read, but not a waste of an afternoon, sunny or rainy.
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