Grave Peril (Dresden files)

By Jim Butcher

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Format: Paperback, 384 pages Published In: United States, 01 October 2001 Other Editions: Paperback, USA $16.99 $13.96 View Quantity Available: 1 24 hour shipping From The Publisher: Chicago's finest wizard-for-hire, Harry Dresden, faces the toughest foe of his career: the ghost of an evil wizard, who invades people's nightmares -- and uses other ghosts as lethal weapons... Publisher: Dutton / Signet ISBN: 0451458443 EAN: 9780451458445 Dimensions: 17.0 x 115.0 x 2.0 centimeters

Book Description:
Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you're the only professional wizard in the Chicago area phone book.
But in all Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble — and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone — or something — is purposely stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc.
But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself....

Review:
This is the third book in the Dresden Files series and one of the more important books in the series. By the end of this book the direction of the next portion of the series will be revealed to the reader. This book is a bit darker that the two previous books and the author makes steps to keep the series fresh by introducing new charaters and making some major changes to some of the existing charaters near the end of the book.

I have not read the second book, but it seems Harry Dresden has moved a step out of the poverty area, and has started to be a scarier arse kicker, with a bunch of vampire roastings, demon ghost huntings, etc.

He also has picked up a Knight of God helper, and managed to get his reporter girlfriend into a lot of trouble.

This novel starts out as ghostbusting, and escalates beyond what at first seems a fairly mundane and straightforward plot.