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Read of the month

A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Solving a Murder by FH Petford

1st December 2025

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 g…

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Featured author

Autumn Doerr

Autumn Doerr is an author, podcaster, and television producer. Her writing career started when she was missing San Francisco, where she had lived during her 20s. Her love of writing and the memory of a true event from her time in the city—the Cathedral Hill Hotel fire—turned into her first book,…