Fortune Favors the Dead

An absolutely phenomenal book. Rarely do we find a hard boiled noir mystery novel where instead of the classic masculine detective, we instead have two strong women leading the story. One a brilliant P.I. battling multiple sclerosis and the other, who serves as the narrator for the story, a former circus member with an almost equally keen mind. Both characters are beautifully written and have an amazing amount of depth to them and feel so real and all to relatable. The mystery is full of unexpected twists and turns and amazing characters that nearly kept me unable to put the book down at all. I eagerly await my copy of book #2, eager to delve into the next, of hopefully many, Pentecost and Parker mysteries.