The setting is present-day Chicago. The Ghost Story continues where we left: right after the ending of Chances, the previous instalment of The Dresden Files. Harry Dresden just died – initially Butcher gave the title „Dead” to the book, in the end he stuck with Ghost Story.
An assassin has killed Harry Dresden – which does not mean the wizard detective vanishes completely from the world. He is some kind of apparition now, and, notwithstanding he cannot contact the physical world and does not have his body and his magical skills anymore, he is still active. He learns that three of his friends are in peril danger, but he does not know which three of them. He needs to find it out. He also needs to know who murdered him – to save his friends and to escape from the no man’s land between the real and the spiritual world. Besides, he has to face malignant apparitions…
A Summary of Ghost Story from Jim Butcher’s official site:
When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn't doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.
But being dead doesn't stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own.
To save his friends-and his own soul-Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic...
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