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Dead Beat

The Dresden Files, Book 7

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Dead Beat

By: Jim Butcher
Narrated by: James Marsters
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When a killer vampire threatens to destroy head of Special Investigations Karrin Murphy's reputation, unless Harry delivers the powerful Word of Kemmler to her, he has no choice. Now Harry is in a race against time to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead.

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"Butcher's latest maintains the momentum of previous Dresden outings and builds the suspense right up to a rousing conclusion." ( Booklist)

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Best so far..

James Marsters is a fantastic narrator, I felt this performance was more fluid than some of his past efforts. I'm dedicated to hearing all of the Dresden files.

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The ball really gets moving in this book

This is the first book that starts the series rocketing into greatness. The past books are all great individually, but in this one; new characters have their roles fleshed out and begin to provide the story a lot of weight. I love listening to this series from this book onwards.

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James Marsters is Harry Dresden.

I've enjoyed all of the Dresden Files to date in ebook form (waiting on the next one) and Mr Marsters' voice in now the one I hear when reading them again. He has increased his range of voices for different characters since doing Storm Front and now it can be easy to forget that it is a single narrator.
I particularly enjoyed the sequence with Sue (and that is as much as I'm going to say about it, those that know probably agree with me, those that don't are in for a treat).

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Butters is the best sidekick!

#teambutters
An easy listen. The story draws down on the established world building. It’s fun to have the greater wizarding community involved.
Pleasant change to not have the abrasive Murphy in the story for once.

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Favourite So far

This was my favourite book of the series so far. Great pace.
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Excellent audio-book

Beautifully narrated by James Masters, Dead Beat by Jim Butcher, is an enjoyable & exciting ride from start to finish. Enjoy! :-)

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Favourite

Enjoying the Dresden Files. This is my favourite Harry Dresden book so far. 8 to go.

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Polka will never die!

My favourite in an excellent series. Marsters does a fantastic job of bringing the characters to life, even as the characters give life to rampant hoards of undead.

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Glitch?

Loved it, though there seems to be a glitch part way through that scrambles up one sentence.

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Need a reality change?

Beautiful way to roll in another reality which seems necessary sometimes currently.
Get throughly immersed in someone else's crazy battles

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