The Spirit Guide - Bridget Walsh
Bridget Walsh
- Pages · 304 pages
- Publication Date · 09/04/2026
- Genre · Historical fiction
'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
'Wonderful. A supremely atmospheric historical mystery, both haunting and relentlessly entertaining' Tom Mead, author of Death and the Conjuror
'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?
Readers LOVE The Spirit Guide
'Exciting, well-paced, with fun twists and turns' Roxana, Reviewer 5 stars
'Bridget Walsh has a gift for blending suspense with rich historical detail. I was hooked from the very first page and couldn't put it down' Zelda, Reviewer 5 stars
'This is the third book in this series [and] I think it might be the best..." - Deborah, Bookseller 5 stars
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