Dead Beat

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There\'s an entire world that exists alongside the everyday life of mankind. There are powers, nations, monsters, wars, feuds, alliances - everything. Wizards are part of it. So are a lot of other things you\'ve heard about in stories, and even more you\'ve never heard of. . . Vampires. Werewolves. Faeries. Demons. Monsters. It\'s all real. Harry Dresden knows full well that such creatures exist. Paranormal investigations are his stock-in-trade, and Chicago is his beat as he tries to bring law and order to a world that exists on the edges of imagination. Luckily Harry\'s not alone in this struggle. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don\'t believe in magic, there\'s a department that\'s been set up within the Chicago PD to deal with "strange" cases: the Special Investigations department. Karrin Murphy is the head of SI and a good friend of Harry\'s. So when a deadly vampire threatens to destroy Murphy\'s reputation unless Harry helps her, he has no choice. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler and all the power that comes with it - but first Harry has to determine what the Word of Kemmler is. Now Harry is in a race against time - and six necromancers - to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead.