This is the first chapter of Jim Butcher's Ghost Story, Book 13 of The Dresden Files. The complete audiobook will be available for download on Tuesday, July 26, when the book releases. Due to scheduling conflicts, there's a new Dresden narrator in town. You may already know John Glover from Smallville, and we think he's done a great job on Ghost Story. We hope you enjoy this sneak peek of his performance.

The eagerly awaited new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series. 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...