A review by arielzeit
Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

3.0

I wanted to like this book more than I did. It's about a pair of detectives; one has multiple sclerosis, the other is a tough butch lesbian with a circus past, and takes place in the 1940s. I've read a number of pre-Stonewall stories about gay women recently and the atmosphere is powerful: there is so much emotion in the suppression. But this was an overly complicated mystery about a fake spiritualist and a tycoon's family and there were too many parts where it dragged. A disappointment as I was hoping to use it for my mystery book club.