Fortune Favors the Dead is the first mystery novel in the Pentecost and Parker Mystery Series by author Stephen Spotswood.
It’s 1942 and Willowjean “Will” Parker is a fearsome circus fugitive whose knife throwing skills save the life of New York’s best and most unorthodox private investigator, Lillian Pentecost.

When the detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn’t expect to be made a life-changing proposal. Lillian’s multiple sclerosis means she can’t keep up with her old case burden. She wants to hire Will to be her right woman. In return, Will will receive a salary, accommodation and training in Lillian’s very special investigative art.

Three years later, Will and Lillian are involved in the Collins case: Abigail Collins is found battered to death with a crystal ball after a big, crazy Halloween party at her home. Her body fell to the same chair where her steel tycoon husband had shot himself. last year. With rumors circulating that Abigail was attacked by her husband’s vengeful spirit (who else could have entered the locked room?), the family has tasked detectives with finding answers where the scene is. assassination has failed.

A school link to messages from the dead, a charming psychic, and Becca Collins – the beautiful daughter of the dead, who will soon begin. When Will and Becca’s relationship system goes beyond professional, I’ll find myself on dangerous ground, and discover she could be the killer’s next target.

• Fortune Favors the Dead

• A Novel
• By: Stephen Spotswood

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