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 Someone\'s put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean Will Parker\'s former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime.
Can she find it before someone stops her ticker for good?.
Dodging fistfights, firebombs, and flying lead, Will puts a lot more than her heart on the line in the search of the truth.
The two swiftly find themselves lost in a funhouse of lies as Will begins to realize that her former circus compatriots aren\'t playing it straight, and that her murdered friend might have been hiding a lot of secrets beneath all that ink.
Pentecost join the circus in sleepy Stoppard, Virginia, where the locals like their cocktails mild, the past buried, and big-city detectives not at all.
To suss out the real killer and keep Kalishenko from a date with the electric chair, Will and Ms.
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.
But she called Hart and Halloway\'s Travelling Circus and Sideshow home for five years, and Ruby Donner, the circus\'s tattooed ingenue, was her friend.
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.
To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost, travel south to the circus where they find a snakepit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for.
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 Someone\'s put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean Will Parker\'s former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime
