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Murder, Itemized
A former fraud investigator, an unexplained gift, and a death hidden inside one of Hawthorne Reach’s oldest houses.
Book detailsParanormal Cozy Mysteries
Eliza Fairholt
Magic. Mystery. A Place to Belong.
In Hawthorne Reach, old houses keep secrets, ordinary objects remember more than they should, and every mystery still has to be solved the hard way.
Fair-play mysteryQuiet magicCoastal New England
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Murder, Itemized
A Midlife Witch Paranormal Cozy Mystery
At forty-six, divorced and newly back in Hawthorne Reach, Cora Whitcomb expects to rebuild her life by taking over her late aunt’s estate business. She knows how to spot fraud in paperwork, provenance, and possessions. She does not expect a murder.
Then certain objects begin striking her with incomplete flashes of grief, anger, and memory. They never name a killer. They do make it harder to ignore the secrets people leave behind.
Welcome to Hawthorne Reach
A small New Hampshire town with a long memory.
Old houses, disputed inheritances, weather off the Atlantic, and neighbors who remember what happened years ago. Hawthorne Reach is not scenery around the mysteries. It is part of why readers come back.
For Cora Whitcomb, returning home means building a second life while learning that some objects can carry fragments of the first.
Enter Hawthorne Reach
Coastal New EnglandHistoric housesEstate work & provenanceRecurring town & cast
The Series
Hawthorne Reach
Echo Mysteries
Murder leaves evidence. Some of it is harder to explain.
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Not the First Owner
A North Bluff estate, a missing silver-backed hand mirror, and a provenance trail that becomes a murder investigation.
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New to Hawthorne Reach?
Start with Murder, Itemized. The murder cases resolve book by book; the characters, relationships, and deeper Hawthorne Reach story continue.
From the Journal
Mystery, magic, and the craft between them.
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
What Is a Paranormal Cozy Mystery?
The cozy mystery promise does not disappear when magic enters the room. Here is what changes—and what should not.
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Why Midlife Witches Fit Cozy Mysteries So Well
Experience, reinvention, skepticism, and second chances give the midlife witch mystery a different center of gravity.
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Mystery First, Magic Second
How a paranormal cozy can use supernatural clues without letting magic short-circuit the satisfaction of solving a murder.
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About the Author
Eliza Fairholt
Eliza Fairholt writes atmospheric paranormal cozy mysteries about sharp investigations, second chances, quiet magic, and the complicated comfort of finding somewhere to belong.
Her Hawthorne Reach stories pair traditional mystery-solving with a restrained supernatural element: magic may reveal a fragment, disturb an assumption, or raise a better question—but it never gets to solve the murder.
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