#pentecost and parker mysteries

[lakecountylibrary]

Series Rec: The Pentecost and Parker Mysteries by Stephen Spotswood

I adore this series! Will Parker is fast-talking gal, well-versed in the seedier side of 1940s NYC, when she makes a chance encounter with Ms. Lillian Pentecost, a shrewd private investigator who recognizes ability when she sees it.

Pictured: Book 3 in the series, Secrets Typed in Blood

The cases they take on are intricate and well-plotted and I love the diversity and uniqueness of these strong, admirable women.

Start with Fortune Favors the Dead to understand how their relationship begins then sit back and enjoy some humor on wry with a side of snark as this oddly capable duo brings justice to criminals of all sorts.

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Check out the Pentecost & Parker Mysteries

#pentecost and parker mysteries #fortune favors the dead #secrets typed in blood #will parker #lillian pentecost #mystery #historical fiction #book recommendations #book recs #bookblr #LCPL recs #chris's recs

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Historical Mystery Series

Harlem Renaissance Mysteries by Nekesa Afia (1920s) The Nightingale Mysteries by Katharine Schellman (1920s) The Simon Sampson Mysteries by David C. Dawson (1930s) Pentecost and Parker by Stephen Spotswood (1940s) Evander Mills by Lev A.C. Rosen (1950s)

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#Andy Mills #David C. Dawson #Evander Mills #Harlem Renaissance #Historical Mystery #Katharine Schellman #Lev A.C. Rosen #Nekesa Afia #Nightingale Mysteries #Pentecost and Parker #Stephen Spotswood

[thesharktist]

I'm a bit insane about them, you see.

They are quite literally the world's best P.I. duo, you can't convince me otherwise

Thank you, Spotswood, for killing me with wonderful characters and a horrifying (/pos) 4th book.

#traditional art #art #lillian pentecost #pentecost and parker mystery #willowjean 'will' parker #stephen spotswood #fortune favors the dead #murder under her skin #secrets typed in blood #murder crossed her mind #murder mystery #noir #queer #disability

[pilgrimjim]

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Following Jesus in the Worst of Times

In such a country, such a world, such a time, what is a disciple to do? We must figure it out as we go, the way the saints of old did amid crumbling empires, or as Dietrich Bonhoeffer did in 1930s Germany, or as Martin Luther King did in a Birmingham jail

Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew (1599-1600) Any number of things can happen when we encounter Jesus. We might be comforted—or we might be uncomfortable. We might be healed—or we might be wounded. We might be instructed—or we might be turned upside down. Jesus is a difference maker. For better or worse, he comes to interrupt—and disrupt—our lives.  Sometimes Jesus speaks to our heart.…

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#Bob Franke #Dietrich Bonhoeffer #Discipleship #Follow me #Galatians 5 #Homily for Third Sunday after Pentecost #January 6 Select Committee #Jeremiah #Jesus #Let your life speak #Luke 9:51-62 #Martin Luther King #Matthew Luttig #Moses #Parker Palmer #Paschal Mystery #St. Paul #Vocation

[libraryofbaxobab]

April 3, 2024:

I've caught up, so no more Pentecost & Parker for me until the author writes more, but I'm a ride or die fan now. They got me. The sometimes-butch, sometimes-femme bisexual detective is in my bloodstream now.

I found this one a little annoying because of the important subplot being based on a pointless lie which always irks me, but I'll forgive it because the mystery part was so good.

#whatskenyareading #books #reading #library #audiobook #lgbtq+ #murder #murder mystery #mystery #mysteries #murder crossed her mind #pentecost and parker #detectives #detective #wlw #sapphic #lesbian #bisexual #queer #memory #photographic memory #eidetic memory #eidetic #mobster #lawyer #attorneys #lawfirm

[dietraumerei]

Weekly Writing and Reading Update

Hello, it is an enormous privilege to even be able to house-hunt and I'm so excited for genuinely every aspect of owning my own home up to and including giving various skilled tradespeople enormous sums of money but my god it is exhausting.

On the upside, I finally slept enough last night and I got a massage today which was a much-needed reset, so I will do some needed chores after I write this and hopefully hate my current apartment less.

Writing

FINALLY in the groove again, although not as much as I'd like. I think I should have a little more time this week, but also we'll see how the urge to write hits, lol. I am not pushing it, because that does no good, but I do hope I can write a good chunk this coming week. Swords and Ploughshares; Signs and Sigils I just need to finish a scene, and the next chapter will be done!

angel_demon_pain_kink: a long one for my medical and pain and bondage kink girlies; this one is simultaneously really hardcore and sweet and loving as is my wont. It's set in the same AU as Restraints (Whumptober 2023) and Examination (Whumptober 2023). I think Examination has the most hits of any story I wrote in 2023, and while neither have a ton of comments, they've got LOADS of kudos and private bookmarks, which I find delightful. So here is another kinky angel/snake demon story for you all ;)

Reading

I fnished Murder Crossed Her Mind, the latest in the Pentecost and Parker mysteries, and enjoyed it enormously. It's nice to have a lil dash of romance! Also it ends on a fabulous cliffhanger.

I am still in the trenches of Master of the Senate and it's still wonderful, but my god, Richard Russell Jr. was the absolute worst, just a total asshole, I think I respect him even less because he was a polite racist. At least the loudly virulent racists were honest. Anyway the Russell Senate building should be renamed, Lyndon was magnificent at kissing ass, onward and upward.

#weekly update

[captwaddledoo]

any books you've read and enjoyed recently?

I'm a slow reader so ymmv with "recently" but the last book I finished was Murder Crossed Her Mind, which is part of the Pentecost and Parker series. It's a really good mystery series with a ton of LGBTQ rep (the Parker of the title is bi, for one, and is dating a polyamorous bi woman). Currently I'm reading A Day of Fallen Night, which is a prequel to a book I really enjoyed, The Priory of the Orange Tree. Enjoying this one too, again had LGBTQ rep, can you sense a theme with the books I read LOL

[kimabutch]

Finished Secrets Typed in Blood, the third Pentecost & Parker mystery book yesterday, and the whole series continues to be a delight. On the one hand, it's comfort food — it follows classic mystery tropes, and the writing style is funny, charming, and fast-paced. On the other hand, it's set in the late 1940s in New York, its protagonist is a white queer woman (and many of its secondary characters are Black, disabled, Jewish, queer, and/or otherwise marginalized), and it does a good job of balancing the light tone of the narrator with the depressing realities of life at that time for people who weren't white cishet men. You get hints of what the life of the protagonists and her friends are going to be like in the next 10 or 20 years and it kinda knocks me out every time, to be reminded of that.

There are aspects of the series that I'm less impressed with — namely, the recurring antagonist is a classic well-intentioned extremist and I'm pretty tired of that trope (and also I find it hard to swallow when the character's aims are portrayed as so sympathetic). But seeing as that character's only shown up a couple of times, I'm willing to see where the author goes with her.

#pentecost and parker #book adventures

[crawlspacefics]

For the 2023 in review asks: 9, 27, & 28?

(I'm also gonna take this opportunity to say I love your writing and fics! I look forward to Throwback Thursdays, and I just adore the entire Haruka's Elves bit! Seriously, you're a wonderful writer. I can't wait to read more of your work in 2024!)

Thank you! That means so much to me! 😊

9. What fic meant the most to you to write?

“How the Dragon Queen Stole the Winter Festival”  Before this, I hadn’t completed anything new since **runs over to ffnet to check** 2008.  The last chapter I’d posted on a WIP was in 2015 (I am so sorry!).  It felt so incredibly good to have the idea spark for this fairytale and to be able to finish and post it, all in the span of about a month.  It was like I’d recaptured something I thought was lost.  Plus I really love the dynamics of the character both as young adults and in their fairytale forms.

27. Did you do anything special to celebrate finishing a fic?

I haven’t.  But this makes me think I should plan something for when the big series gets finished.  Hmmm…

28. How did you recharge between fics?

I binge read.  When I’m writing with any kind of consistency, I tend to avoid reading much because my brain overlaps and jumbles up stuff. Plus distraction because a new book will take my attention totally away from anything else.  So in that space between stories, I read the books/fanfic I’ve let pile up.  I highly recommend the “Delilah Green Doesn’t Care” series by Ashley Herring Blake and the “Pentecost and Parker Mysteries” series by Stephen Spotswood.  Digital library cards for the win!

#2023 in review #sailormoon fanfiction #crawl's fics #asks and answers #Yamino set off something with that Christmas Ami pic #writer ask game

[avatrkyoshi]

i can’t believe the pentecost and parker novels feature:

1. a powerful genius milf detective in a suit with a glass eye and her charmingly funny right-hand woman

2. great dynamic and banter between the two

3. great lgbtqia+ and disability rep

4. a 1940s noir new york setting

5. fun, action-packed murder mysteries

and yet NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THEM??!3₱,₱:&:’xn

#they are criminally underrated #please read them #willowjean parker is actually the loml #lgbtq books #book recommendations #sapphic books #queer books

[lgbtqreads]

Hello again! Do you know any good queer books that like mystery or something?

Sure do! Kristen Lepionka's Roxane Weary series is a fave PI series, and I love Lev AC Rosen's historical mystery Lavender House, whose sequel comes out in October. Cozy mysteries have had a fun little boom in queer lit lately - enjoyed A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette and Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp, and am very much looking forward to Board to Death by CJ Connor and still need to read Devil's Chew Toy by Rob Osler. I haven't yet read Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia, Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman, or Stephen Spotswood's Pentecost & Parker series, which are all Sapphic historical mysteries, but those look great too!

If you're a YA fan, I love Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig, Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan, People Like Us by Dana Mele, Far From You by Tess Sharpe, and my personal holy grail, Sadie by Courtney Summers.

#Queer Crime Reads #Mystery #LGBTQReads

[thesharktist]

Book art!!!

Please please please go read this series it's soooooo good

#art #digital art #fortune favors the dead #pentecost and parker mystery #lillian pentecost #willowjean 'will' parker #bookworm #murder mystery

[nedlittle]

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i read a total of 15 books in december (170% of my yearly goal) and 5179 pages (185% of my yearly goal). my favourite was the fitzosbornes at war by michelle cooper, and my least favourite was loch down abbey by beth cowan-erskine.

full breakdown of star ratings and reviews under the cut 🖊📚

loch down abbey by beth cowan-erskine 2⭐ [historical, mystery] [review]

don't look now and other stories by daphne du maurier 3.5⭐ [horror, classics] [review]

the celluloid closet: homosexuality in the movies by vito russo 4.5⭐ [film, queer] [review]

viviana valentine gets her man (viviana valentine #1) by emily j. edwards 3.25⭐ [history, mystery] [review]

bad kids by zijin chen (tr. michelle deeter) 4⭐ [crime, thriller] [review]

trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion by jia tolentino 3.75⭐ [essays] [review]

missing, presumed dead by emma berquist 3.5⭐ [queer, fantasy, ya] [review]

island queen by vanessa riley 3⭐ [historical, romance] [review]

little fish by casey plett 4⭐ [queer, contemporary] [review]

secrets typed in blood (pentecost & parker #3) by stephen spotswood 3.5⭐ [historical, mystery, queer] [review]

northanger abbey by jane austen 3.5⭐ [classics, romance] [review]

ghostland: an american history in haunted places by colin dickey 5⭐ [history, sociology] [review]

the fitzosbornes in exile (the montmaray journals #3) by michelle cooper 5⭐ [historical fiction, ya] [review]

the girls: sappho goes to hollywood by diana mclellan 3⭐ [nonfiction, film] [review]

what the living do: poems by marie howe 3.75⭐ [poetry] [review]

#reading wrap up #bookblr #reading #sometimes i make stuff #lifeblogging #posting this 9 days into january let's goooooo #anyway. you win some you lose some

[theladyragnell]

Books! If you haven't read them yet, the Pentecost and Parker mysteries by Stephen Spotswood are delightful. Set in the 1940s, queer main character. Satisfying convoluted crimes. I read the 2 that are out in 2 days.

Ooh, thank you for letting me know, they sound very intriguing!

#anonymous #answered asks

[qbdatabase]

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. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn’t expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian’s multiple sclerosis means she can’t keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman.

Three years later, Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball following a big, boozy Halloween party at her home—her body slumped in the same chair where her steel magnate husband shot himself the year before. With rumors flying that Abigail was bumped off by the vengeful spirit of her husband, the family has tasked the detectives with finding answers where the police have failed.

But that’s easier said than done in a case that involves messages from the dead, a seductive spiritualist, and Becca Collins—the beautiful daughter of the deceased, who Will quickly starts falling for. When Will and Becca’s relationship dances beyond the professional, Will discovers she may have become the murderer’s next target.

#adult books #historical fiction #mystery books #book series #bisexual #bisexual rep #disabled (multiple sclerosis) #disability rep #in uniform #thriller #time period: 1940s #daily book #fiction #lgbt fiction #lgbtqia #bookblr #Fortune Favors the Dead #Stephen Spotswood

[libraryofbaxobab]

April 2, 2024:

I'm eating these by the handful like Skittles, and for this reason I don't think it's right to review each of them. All you have to know is they're fun and I love every accent the audiobook narrator does.

8.5/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

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