Dead Man's Hand

<b>In the tradition of his renowned father James J. Butcher's debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. </b> <p/> On the streets of Boston the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs the Auditors are the magical elite government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is...not one of those witches. <p/> After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as not Department material Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can't help hoping he'll somehow someway get another chance to prove his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor aka the most dangerous witch alive is murdered down the street from where he works and Grimsby is the Auditors' number one suspect. <p/> Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is find the real killer avoid the Auditors on his trail and most importantly <i>stay alive</i>.