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New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost is the most successful private detective in the city, but her health is failing. She hires an assistant to help with the investigative legwork. Willowjean Parker is a circus runaway. Quick-witted and street-smart, she's a jack-of-all-trades with a unique skill-set. When wealthy young widow Abigail Collins is murdered and the police are making no progress, Pentecost and Parker are hired by the family to track down the culprit.

New York, 1946: The last time Will Parker let a case get personal, she walked away with a broken face, a bruised ego and the solemn promise never again to let her heart get in the way of her job. But she called Hart and Halloway's Travelling Circus and Sideshow home for five years and Ruby Donner, the circus' tattooed ingenue, was her friend. To make matters worse, the prime suspect is Valentin Kalishenko, the man who taught Will everything she knows about putting a knife where it needs to go.

New York City, 1947. For years, Holly Quick has written gruesome tales of revenge for pulp detective magazines. Now someone is bringing her stories to life and leaving a trail of blood behind. With the threat of another murder looming, and reluctant to go to the police, Holly turns to the renowned detective duo Willowjean "Will" Parker and her boss Lillian Pentecost. Soon they are diving into an underground world of people obsessed with murder. 

When Vera Bodine, an elderly recluse with an exceptional memory, goes missing, detective duo Lillian Pentecost and her assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker are hired to track her down. But New York City in 1947 is a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who want to bury the secrets that Bodine has been keeping. As the clock is ticking to find Bodine alive, circumstances conspire to pull both investigators off the case. 

A New York Times Best Mystery of 2025 The most dramatic installment yet in the Nero Award–winning Pentecost and Parker series, as Will scrambles to solve a shocking murder before Lillian takes the fall for the crime. NEW YORK CITY, 1947: Wealthy financier and ghoulish connoisseur of crime...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award–winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much. From the author of Fortune Favors the...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series, Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. The Pentecost & Parker series "takes gritty 40s noir, shakes it...

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring women sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus...

A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages. “Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying...

New York, 1942, notte fonda. Willowjean "Will" Parker racimola qualche soldo facendo la guardia in uno spettrale cantiere edile armata di una spranga di piombo. Nonostante le apparenze, sembra proprio che si trovi nel posto giusto al momento giusto. Abile tuttofare del circo e destrissima lanciatrice di coltelli, senza saperlo ha appena salvato la vita alla detective privata più famosa e meno ortodossa della città: Lillian Pentecost, una distinta signora in tailleur che, a causa di una malattia degenerativa, si aggira sostenendosi con un bastone.

New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost, la detective privata più famosa e meno ortodossa in circolazione, e la sua assistente ed ex artista circense Will Parker ricevono una chiamata direttamente dal passato di quest'ultima. Il circo itinerante Hart and Halloway's, dove la ragazza è stata accolta dopo essere scappata di casa da adolescente, è sconvolto da un terribile evento: in un vicolo tra il tendone e le roulotte degli artisti, è stato trovato il corpo senza vita di Ruby Donner, l'Incredibile Donna Tatuata. Una spaventosa ferita le taglia la schiena, attraversando le decine di disegni di cui è costellata.