Publisher's Synopsis
AN EVOCATIVE VICTORIAN DETECTIVE MYSTERY FULL OF CLEVER TWISTS Worcester, April 1893. Detective Inspector Ravenscroft receives a strange note from a lonely old woman fearing for her life. But when he visits her, she is already dead. DID MISS MAUD FINCHER'S HEART GIVE OUT OR WAS SHE SCARED TO DEATH? Maud Fincher was part of a group of locals trying to speak to their deceased loved ones through the medium of séance. Ravenscroft thinks this is harmless nonsense . . . until the old lady's last surviving heir is murdered. Is there something sinister going on at these séances? In his last-ever case before retiring Ravenscroft must question everything he believes in order to catch this killer. CAN HE UNMASK THE MURDERER AND RETIRE IN PEACE?
