White Night - Jim Butcher

Advantages: Colourful and exciting writing
Disadvantages: Falls for too many of the TV cliches

I recall seeing the trailers for the television version of "The Dresden Files" and thinking it sounded like a wonderful concept; that of a wizard Private Investigator in modern day Chicago. As someone who rarely watches television, though, I never managed to see an episode. So I was delighted to find it was also available in book form. The book starts in a hurry, with the finding of a dead body which looks like a suicide. However, all is not what ...
...that only Harry Dresden, the aforementioned wizard, can see. It turns out that there is a serial killer at large in the magical community of Chicago and they're trying to taunt Dresden into getting involved. It is to get worse before it gets better for Dresden, as it seems that his brother may be the killer and so he has to find someone else behind it, or risk finding his brother implicated. Starting with the ninth book in a series wouldn't usually ... Read review