I Bought Another Harry Dresden Book

I bought a new book the other day. I just had to have it. At least partly because I really, really like the cover illustration. It’s so film noir. And there’s something about an enigmatic man with unkempt hair in a long dark coat...


I know, I know, J., I said I wasn’t going to buy books any more just because they have very cool cover illustrations. It’s a setup for disappointment. Books with great covers rarely live up to the expectations that I develop about them.

But in this case my purchase is surely justified since Dead Beat happens to be book #7 in a series of books written by Jim Butcher about a Chicago private eye named Harry Dresden who is also a wizard and I love these books! I just finished book #5, Death Masks, and will probably start book #6, Blood Rites, soon.

I often do read two or three books at the same time if they’re very different from each other. But in this case Havana Bay is close enough in setting and mood to the Harry Dresden books that I have to wait until I finish Havana Bay before starting Blood Rites. Otherwise I’ll get hopelessly confused and start mixing up plot details and secondary characters.