A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled
classics Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker an audacious new detective
duo for the ages.Razor-sharp style tons of flair a snappy sense of humor and all the most
satisfying elements of a really good noir novel plus plenty of original twists of its
own.”—Tana French bestselling author of The SearcherIt's 1942 and Willowjean Will Parker is a
scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best
and most unorthodox private investigator Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons
Will a few days later she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's
multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone so she wants to hire
Will to be her right-hand woman. In return Will is to receive a salary room and board and
training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation. Three years later Will and Lillian
are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball
following a big boozy Halloween party at her home—her body slumped in the same chair where her
steel magnate husband shot himself the year before. With rumors flying that Abigail was bumped
off by the vengeful spirit of her husband (who else could have gotten inside the locked room?)
the family has tasked the detectives with finding answers where the police have failed. But
that's easier said than done in a case that involves messages from the dead a seductive
spiritualist and Becca Collins—the beautiful daughter of the deceased who Will quickly starts
falling for. When Will and Becca's relationship dances beyond the professional Will finds
herself in dangerous territory and discovers she may have become the murderer's next target.
