Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

It’s not until the last moments of the book that Harry Dresden wonders if someone is trying to kill him. But readers of Fool Moon, the second book in the Dresden Files series, will wonder it nearly right away.

Despite still being upset with Harry for giving her just enough information about the Nevernever to believe in it, but not enough to face its creatures in her mundane job as a cop, Special Investigations’ lead Karrin Murphy calls Harry to a crime scene with all the horrifying hallmarks of a werewolf perp. The problem is that there are multiple kinds of werewolves in this magicked up version of Chicago and Harry isn’t sure which kind is out killing people.

While the number of shape shifters and the evidence are piling up nothing seems to fit and the Chicago PD’s efforts are hampered by Murphy being under an IA investigation, a group of FBI agents playing dominance games with the crime scenes, a local mob boss who thinks he’s the next target trying to force Harry into protecting him, not to mention the humans’ stubborn refusal to take the supernatural seriously.

Fool Moon has a complexity that is not typical found in urban fantasy. Not only are there hints at the past that are never expounded on, but there are also hints at a mysterious person or persons being behind the villains of the first book, and this book. More like a noir, supernatural tinted true crime story than other books Fool Moon could easily bring the fantasy, mystery and horror crowds together under the Dresden banner.