A Ghost Hunter's Guide to Solving a Murder: Cozy crime meets historical fiction in this brand-new quirky and gripping paranormal murder mystery

Author:   F.H. Petford
Publisher:   Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:  

9781399749831


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   02 October 2025
Format:   Paperback
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A Ghost Hunter's Guide to Solving a Murder: Cozy crime meets historical fiction in this brand-new quirky and gripping paranormal murder mystery


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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...

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Author:   F.H. Petford
Publisher:   Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:   Hodder Paperback
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.215kg
ISBN:  

9781399749831


ISBN 10:   1399749838
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   02 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Cleverly entertaining * Greg Mosse * A well-plotted murder mystery * Fiona Leitch *


Author Information

F. H. Petford ran his own creative agency and was involved in writing projects for corporate clients and the London theatre world. A Ghost Hunter's Guide to solving a Murder, the first of the Alma Timperley mysteries, was written following the success of three crime novels set in the Oxfordshire village of Great Tew at the end of the Great War. The supernatural elements in his work are inspired by his own experiences of the paranormal. He was signed to Hodder and Stoughton in 2025 and lives a quietly pagan life in Somerset.

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