In the Company of Ghosts

The Agatha Witchley Mysteries>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Book 1 of the Company of Ghosts seriesBecause 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.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THE SERIES SO FAR...Part 1 - In the Company of Ghosts.Part 2 - The Plato Club.Part 3 is coming soon.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>REVIEWSPraise for Stephen Hunt's novels:'Compulsive reading for all ages.'- GUARDIAN'Studded with invention.'-THE INDENDENT'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks… affecting and original.'- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A swaggering, eye-filling, brain-swizzling extravaganza!'- KIRKUS REVIEWS'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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FORMATNovella - part 1 of a continuing, linked series.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AGE ADVISORYAge 15+ - mild violence and swearing.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS...Iain BanksJohn le CarréLee ChildBernard CornwellPatricia CornwellClive CusslerIan FlemingWilliam GibsonRobert HarrisDean KoontzStephen KingStieg LarssonScott MarianiJames PattersonIan RankinC. J. SansomAlexander McCall Smith>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GENRESCrimeThrillersMystery>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Stephen Hunt is a fantasy and science fiction author who lives in Spain and the UK. He is best known for his best-selling Jackelian fantasy series of novels from HarperCollins, also the publisher of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis in the UK.The Jackelian world is a fantasy adventure set in a far-future Earth where the passage of time has erased almost all memory of our current world from history. Electricity is now unreliable and classed as a dark power, with many of the nations of the world existing at a Victorian level of development and relying on steam-power, mechanical nanotechnology and biotechnology to survive and prosper.It is a world of strange creatures, flashing blades, steammen servants, airship battles and high adventure.Each novel is written as a stand-alone work, but share the same world and many of the same characters who criss-cross between the novels (a technique shared with fellow British fantasy author Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series).Foreign language and international editions of the six novels of the Jackelian series have been sold to Tor Books (USA), Albin Michel (France), Verlagsgruppe Random House (Germany), Enterbrain Manga and Anime (Japan), Edições Saída de Emergência (Portugal), Paidós (Spain), AST (Russia), and the Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House (China).Stephen maintains his own web site over at www.StephenHunt.net and when he is not writing, he can be found indulging in such interests as cooking, gardening, collecting comic-books, and building his collections of genre novels.