A tip from a friend clued me in to Fortune Favors the Dead, by Stephen Spotswood and some intriguing new characters! In 1942, in New York, a rather well known (and rather unorthodox) investigator Lillian Pentecost has just been saved by Willowjean Parker, in town (and working some extra hours) with a traveling circus. Ms. Pentecost has MS, which is slowing her down more than she cares to admit and she is looking for someone to assist her. It can't be just anyone, though, can it?! Three years later, they are on a case, a classic locked room mystery ... lots of family secrets and connections, a spiritualist who knows too much about too many, and, um, interesting butlers and researchers and so on. It should keep you reading far into the night!

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