The Tenant Upstairs Lied

There are seven house spirits at Pellam House, and they talk to Hattie Prowse because Hattie Prowse is the only one who ever speaks back. So when Miss Alverton of the top floor leaves in the night, and a different woman moves in the next morning wearing the same name, Hattie hears about it first. From the kettle. From the stair-watcher, who refuses to climb. From a scullery spirit who remembers the shape of a brown leather satchel. The landlady says nothing has changed. The police say nothing can be proved. The new Miss Alverton says she has always lived here. Hattie is a housemaid in a respectable London lodging house. She has no standing, no wages to spare, and no intention of letting that stop her. A Victorian domestic thriller with a whisper of cozy urban fantasy — a locked-room mystery that only the servants can open.