Side Jobs: Jim Butcher

This was my first Jim Butcher book and I really enjoyed it. It was a collection of short stories where you get a glimpse of the characters in the novels. Harry Dresden is a wizard who works as a detective. He solves not only supernatural crimes, but crimes...which happen to be done by the supernatural :P We meet characters like Bob, who is a skull that helps Harry think through cases and work spells, his werewolf friends, and a police officer with no supernatural powers, who he happens to have a crush on. The stories are delightful and Harry's dry humor and sarcasm liven the stories.