In Butchers latest "New York Times" bestseller, professional wizard Harry Dresden investigates a series of deaths after he uncovers a conspiracy within the White Council of Wizards that threatens not only him, but those closest to him.

In Butchers latest "New York Times" bestseller, professional wizard Harry Dresden investigates a series of deaths after he uncovers a conspiracy within the White Council of Wizards that threatens not only him, but those closest to him.

Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago's magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times * bestselling series.*

Someone is targeting the members of the city's supernatural underclass--those who don't possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes--a message for Harry Dresden. Harry sets out to find the apparent serial killer, but his investigation turns up evidence pointing to the one suspect he cannot possibly believe guilty: his half-brother, Thomas. To clear his brother's name, Harry rushes into a supernatural power struggle that renders him outnumbered, outclassed, and dangerously susceptible to temptation. And Harry knows that if he screws this one up, people will die--and one of them will be his brother...