Stephen Spotswood – Cannonball Read 17

Secrets Typed In Blood: The Third Pentecost & Parker Mystery

Secrets Typed In Blood by Stephen Spotswood

January 4, 2023 by Owlizabeth 6 Comments

Hello howdy and hey y’all, it’s my first post ever! I love detective stories. I’ve got a brain that enjoys puzzles and being right, so it’s fun on top of fun. But I am also super picky and easily distracted or annoyed by most mysteries. I need a challenge but not something so convoluted it’s unsolvable. I don’t want anything too cozy or too grim, nothing with lots of graphic violence/mutilation/torture but a decent amount of action. I prefer women authors and characters, I like […]

Page-turner mystery series alert

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

August 8, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Fortune Favors the Dead is the first book in the “Pentecost and Parker” mystery series. If you like a little bit of Sherlock Holmes and a little bit of hard-boiled noir, this could be the series for you! The Pentecost half of the series is the (in)famous NYC private detective, Ms. Pentecost. Ms. Pentecost is a 1940s Sherlock Holmes – she is hyper-observant, obsessive, and perhaps a little uncaring of her crime-solving crew at times. She is more interested in justice than anything else. Even […]

Introducing your new favorite crime solving duo

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

January 26, 2022 by Mikki Blu 3 Comments

Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn’t care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. Well, here we are in 2022 and this book starts off in 1942 New York. Willowjean, aka Will, Parker is a young woman who works in the circus as a Jill-of-all trades. When the book opens, she’s picking up extra work doing guard duty at a construction site. As fortune has it, she saves the life of an older woman who […]

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