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A Ghost Hunter's Guide to Solving a Murder

Alma Timperley Mysteries, Book 1

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 Meet Alma Timperley. She can:
- Run a hotel
- Solve a mystery
- Talk to ghosts...?

December, 1914: After the death of her aunt, Alma Timperley is surprised when she suddenly finds herself the heiress to the Timperley Spiritualist Hotel in a pretty coastal town in Cornwall.

But not everything is as it seems... the hotel offers guests a very special service: the chance to communicate with the dead.

When the body of one of the hotel's maids is found, it is considered a tragic wartime accident. But the more Alma and the local police try to fathom what happened, the more they begin to realise this is much more than just a death - there might be a German spy in Falmouth.

With the stakes higher than ever, Alma must grapple with her own extraordinary secret if she is going to have more than a ghost of a chance of solving the mystery.

Being able to talk with the dead is one thing; solving their murder is positively ghoulish...©2025 Frederick Petford Animals Cosy Culinary Ghosts Horror Mystery Women's Fiction Haunted Espionage

Critic reviews

Cleverly entertaining
A well-plotted murder mystery
All stars
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I listened on audio and really enjoyed this historical crime thriller with a difference. The unique spiritualist setting, the world war one plot, and the characters are really entertaining and I'm looking forward to hearing more from Miss Alma Timperley in June. Can't wait!

The First World War wasn't only fought in the trenches.

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