Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood, 321 pages.
The first sentence of this book description reads "It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost," and since pretty much every word in that sentence is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in I pretty much immediately had to read it. This story, despite being the first in the series, takes place a few years after Lillian Pentecost takes on Will Parker as her assistant, since her Multiple Sclerosis is slowing her down too much to do all of her own leg work. This particular caper is an old-school locked room murder mystery, wherein a steel magnate's widow is bludgeoned to death at her own Halloween party, in the same room her husband killed himself the year before.
This was an extremely fun mystery that was carried in it's heavier moments by how much all of the characters, major and otherwise, cared about their loved ones. Will is also an extremely strong character, and I really look forward to reading more of her adventures.
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