‘Don’t read before bedtime or you’ll stay up until the wee hours of the morning to finish’ Reader review ‘I absolutely adored this book. It was compelling from the start. The historical detail was spot-on and the characters well-drawn’ Reader reviewMeet 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…