Proven Guilty

Title: Proven Guilty
Author: Jim Butcher
Published: 2006 in book form but this was an audio book
Genre: Noir urban fantasy
Pages: 406 says Wikipedia.


Aah! It's the 8th Dresden Files -book already! This time, movie monsters are coming alive at a horror movie convention called SplatterCon!!! Molly Carpenter, daughter of Harry's friend Michael, comes to him pleading for help and bail money. Her friend Nelson is wrongly arrested for an assault which, on a closer look, seems almost supernatural. They end up at the convention, where both Molly and Nelson are working at, and shit promptly hits the fan.

Of course, that's not all that Harry needs to concern himself with. There's a war going on, continuing from the earlier books. There's fairy court politics and schemes, and there's wizard council politics and schemes Harry has to pay close attention to these days. He's also kind of smitten on his old friend, to make sure that things don't become too easy for the poor guy. Your basic everyday wizard stuff, a wild rollercoaster ride narrated by James Marsters. Mmm. James Marsters... I think that my favourite bit was when the baddies were trying to sell Harry on Ebay. I remember sitting in a train when it got to that point, and giggling to myself.

Wikiquote has only one tiny quote from this one, the opening line:


"Blood leaves no stain on a Warden's cloak." In Proven Guilty, this gets tested again and again.