White Night (novel)

The cover art by illustrator Christian McGrath depicts Harry walking down a snowy street with his glowing staff.

[1] A year after the events in Proven Guilty, Dresden is called by Murphy to the scene of an apparent suicide, and senses the victim is a magical practitioner.

He finds that his brother, Thomas, had apparently been following most of the women who've vanished, but also comes across another suspect, "Grey Cloak", whom he tracks to Undertown, a warren under Chicago, and spies on him meeting with Cowl, who didn't die during the Darkhallow (in Dead Beat), also learning that vampires of House Skavis—who feed on despair—are responsible for the suicides.

Following more deaths and investigation, Harry figures out the Skavis is one of the women in time to save Elaine from its attack.

Lara Raith escorts Dresden and Ramirez into the Deeps, a cavern, where they wait until the right moment to challenge Vittorio "Grey Cloak" Malvora and Madrigal to combat for violation of the Unseelie Accords.

Discovering that the scar of Lasciel's sigil has faded from his palm, Dresden digs up her coin and turns it over to Father Forthill.

He learns that Thomas is now working as a hairstylist and safely feeding on the emotions of his female customers, and that Justine is secretly passing him information about the war from within House Raith.