Stephen Spotswood has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Fortune Favors the Dead.
La fortuna aiuta il morto
Summary
New York, 1942, notte fonda. Willowjean "Will" Parker racimola qualche soldo facendo la guardia in uno spettrale cantiere edile armata di una spranga di piombo. Nonostante le apparenze, sembra proprio che si trovi nel posto giusto al momento giusto. Abile tuttofare del circo e destrissima lanciatrice di coltelli, senza saperlo ha appena salvato la vita alla detective privata più famosa e meno ortodossa della città: Lillian Pentecost, una distinta signora in tailleur che, a causa di una malattia degenerativa, si aggira sostenendosi con un bastone. E quando qualche giorno dopo Lillian la contatta, Will non può credere alle sue orecchie: Pentecost le sta offrendo di diventare il suo braccio destro in cambio di uno stipendio, vitto e alloggio e l'iniziazione ai suoi peculiarissimi stili d'indagine. Quando tre anni dopo Abigail Collins viene trovata morta nella sua lussuosa abitazione durante una festa di Halloween e la polizia brancola nel buio, Pentecost e Parker entrano in azione. Più facile a dirsi che a farsi, in un caso che vede protagonisti messaggi dall'aldilà, una languida spiritista e Becca Collins, l'affascinante figlia della morta per cui Will perde pericolosamente la testa.
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Fortune Favors the Dead
Summary
“[Fortune Favors the Dead has] razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.” (Tana French) A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages. 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. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation. 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 (who else could have gotten inside the locked room?), 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 finds herself in dangerous territory and discovers she may have become the murderer's next target.
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