"Stephen Spotswood hard-boils with the best of 'em!"--Alan Bradley, bestselling author of the Flavia de Luce Mystery Series
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. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous
detective Lillian Pentecost , travel south into a snakepit of old
grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for.
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’s 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.
To uncover the real killer and keep Kalishenko from a date
with the electric chair, Will and Ms. 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. 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.
Dodging fistfights, firebombs, and flying lead, Will puts
a lot more than her heart on the line in the search of the truth. Can
she find it before someone stops her ticker for good?
Step right up! Murder Under Her Skin is a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring heroines dead set on justice.
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