L'histoire : Harry Dresden, professional wizard, has done his best to keep his nose clean where the White Council of Wizards is concerned. Even so, his past misdeeds have cast a constant shadow of suspicion over him in the eyes of the Wardens, those wizards responsible for enforcing the Laws of Magic. Now Dresden finds himself faced with a nightmarish dilemma: Morgan, formerly his chief persecutor among the Wardens, has been wrongly accused of treason against the White Council - and has come to Harry for help. Dresden faces a... [Lire la suite]

L'histoire : Harry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down. The White Council's war with the vampiric Red Court has reached a period of tentative peace, no one has tried to kill him for almost an entire year, and the worst problem he's had lately is working out how to remove the stains on his carpeting. For once, the future looks fairly bright.But the past casts one hell of a long shadow.An old bargain has placed Harry in debt to Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, the Queen of Air and Darkness--and she's calling... [Lire la suite]

L'histoire : This time, when Harry Dresden gets a call from Murphy, it's off the record, because she has been demoted, things in SI are politically shaky, and the police have already declared a suicide. Once Harry gets a good look, though, the suicide is clearly a murder with magical intent. As he investigates, hoping as always to stop the killer before more die, evidence points to the worst possible suspect: his half brother. In another complicated case, there are a lot of very powerful players, and with the war between the White... [Lire la suite]

L'histoire : Karin Murphy is the head of SI and Harry's good friend. So when a killer vampire threatens to destroy Murphy's reputation unless Harry does her bidding, he has no choice. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler (whatever that is) and all the power that comes with it. Now Harry is in a race against time--and six merciless necromancers--to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead... Mon avis : Quel tome, mais quel tome ! Avec Dead Beat, Jim Butcher augmente encore l’addiction à sa... [Lire la suite]

Quatrième de couverture : For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey-poo for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there's something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film's producer believes he's the target of a sinister entropy curse - but it's the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways.Harry's even more frustrated because he only got... [Lire la suite]

Quatrième de couverture : Pour une fois, les affaires sont bonnes. Un peu trop même : Harry Dresden, le seul magicien professionnel de Chicago, est carrément débordé. Et voilà que surviennent quelques menus imprévus... Le champion de la Cour rouge des vampires a décidé de le tuer en duel pour mettre fin à la guerre entre vampires et magiciens. Le suaire de Turin porté disparu, Harry n'est pas le seul à sa recherche : une troupe de démons est aussi sur le coup, et ça ne les dérangerait pas, tant qu'à faire, de prendre l'âme d'Harry au... [Lire la suite]