Fortune Favors the Dead is the first of a five-book (so far) series regarding the detective team of Lillian Pentecost and Will Parker. I’ve already reviewed books two and three and I wish I had read them in the order that they were published. The books do work as stand-alone novels, but if you don’t read them in order, then you would miss some of the character development that the author, Stephen Spotswood has written so skillfully. This book introduces the primary characters and gives the history of their lives before they teamed up, and there’s a quick review of some of the cases that they solved in the three years since they met and this story occurs in 1945. Pentecost is the wise detective, now 45 years old and suffering from slowly advancing muscular dystrophy. She is widely recognized as the best detective in NYC if not the whole world, and Parker is her talented protégé.
Spotswood has developed fascinating characters including the unlikely pairing of Pentecost and Parker. It’s a great plot which I choose not to give away, and I certainly did not see the very late twist that changed the perspectives that these two females sleuths had uncovered over the course of the book. This novel gets my highest recommendation.
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