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‘A witty addition to Bridget Walsh’s Variety Palace Mysteries’ – Sunday Times

‘My favourite detective double-act’ Emma Styles, author of No Country For Girls

‘An excellent addition to the Variety Palace Mysteries’ Sheila O’Flanagan, author of What Eden Did Next

Tragedy strikes Minnie Ward’s beloved Variety Palace Theatre when a man is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Along with private detective Albert Easterbrook, she investigates. The trail leads them from the streets of London to a grand country house in the Suffolk countryside, home of the shadowy Spirit Sisterhood, who promise their clients an audience with the deceased.

Minnie isn’t buying it. She goes undercover within the Sisterhood and enters an eerie world of seances and mediums. But unravelling their secrets will bring Minnie face-to-face with ghosts from her own past. Can she get to the truth before the murderer kills again?

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“Wonderful. A supremely atmospheric historical mystery, both haunting and relentlessly entertaining.”
-Tom Mead, author of Death and the Conjuror

“From a murder far too close to home at the beloved Variety Palace, through dodgy Victorian seances to an even dodgier spiritualist cult in the wilds of Suffolk, Minnie and Albert blaze brighter than ever in this vividly conjured mystery with properly scary ghost story vibes. Another cracking page-turner from Bridget Walsh and this series. My favourite detective double-act.”
-Emma Styles, author of No Country for Girls

“An excellent addition to the Variety Palace novels with memorable characters and a plot that explores the exploitation of people’s grief. Minnie is a wonderful protagonist who brings strength and humour to even the darkest moments.”
-Sheila O’Flanagan, author of What Eden Did Next