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1879, Victorian London. Will-they-won't-they detective duo Minnie Ward and Albert Easterbrook are looking into two mysterious new deaths. This leads them to the doors of the Spirit Sisterhood, a spiritualist group with a suspicious focus on young women. Minnie smells a rat. Going undercover on her own at the organisation's countryside house, she discovers a strangely compelling world of spirits and ghosts. But, without Albert or anyone she loves, Minnie quickly finds herself in very hot water. Can she get word out before it's too late?

In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can't quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from London: the incident at the Savoy. Sequestered within an aging...