A Ghost Hunter's Guide to Solving a Murder

Author: Petford, F.H.

Crime & mystery

Published on 2 October 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Alma Timperley Mystery Series' series.

Paperback | 304 pages, N/A
129 x 198 x 21 | 216g

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...