In the Company of Ghosts — Stephen Hunt

Because sometimes, insanity and genius are indistinguishable...

Agatha Witchley used to be a spy in the Cold War, but now she's locked up in the UK's premier maximum-security mental institution. She believes that the ghosts of the celebrity dead visit her padded cell and whisper the world's secrets in her ears. Which
is a big problem for the British government, because she's the only one who can help them when an American billionaire is murdered in London in one of the strangest killings yet. 

The Home Secretary needs the case locked down and solved before the entrepreneur's death becomes public knowledge and economic chaos ensures. 

The woman he has in mind for the job might be paranoid, she might be lethal, she might half-insane and drawing a pension, but it's amazing how you can forgive that in a genius when it's a genius's help you need.

Yes, the security forces need Agatha Witchley again. It's just the ghosts of Churchill, Elvis and Groucho Marx they could do without.

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Book 1 of The Agatha Witchley Mysteries: IN THE COMPANY OF GHOSTS

THE SERIES SO FAR...

SEASON ONE

Episode #1 - In the Company of Ghosts.

Episode #2 - The Plato Club.

Episode #3 - The Moon Man's Tale

THE SEASON ONE OMNIBUS (#1 & #2 & #3)

Secrets of the Moon - in print and ebook.

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REVIEWS

Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels:

‘Compulsive reading for all ages.'
- GUARDIAN

‘Studded with invention.'
-THE INDEPENDENT

‘Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks… affecting and original.'
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

‘An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.'
- THE TIMES

‘Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.'
- TOM HOLT

‘Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.'
- TIME OUT

'A swaggering, eye-filling, brain-swizzling extravaganza!'  
-- KIRKUS REVIEWS 

'Readers will be entertained and captivated.'
- BOOKLIST

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FORMAT

Novella - part 3 of a continuing, linked series.

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AGE ADVISORY

Age 15+ - mild violence and swearing.

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READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS...

Iain Banks

John le Carré

Lee Child

Bernard Cornwell 

Patricia Cornwell

Clive Cussler 

Ian Fleming

William Gibson

Robert Harris

Dean Koontz 

Stephen King 

Stieg Larsson

Scott Mariani

James Patterson

Ian Rankin

C. J. Sansom

Alexander McCall Smith

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GENRES

Crime

Thrillers

Mystery