Murder, Itemized - Eliza Fairholt

At forty-six, divorced and newly back in Hawthorne Reach, Cora Whitcomb plans to rebuild her life by taking over her late aunt's estate business. A former fraud investigator, she knows how to spot lies in paperwork, provenance, and possessions.

She does not expect murder.

When executor Edwin Kersey dies inside one of the town's oldest houses, the inventory he was desperate to verify becomes evidence. Then Cora discovers something harder to explain: certain objects can strike her with incomplete flashes of grief, anger, and memory.

The Echoes never name a killer. They only make the right questions impossible to ignore.

A Victorian mourning locket draws Cora toward missing heirlooms, a disputed inheritance, and a secret someone has protected for years. With a wary detective, a sharp-eyed colleague, and Moss-a smoke-gray cat who notices far too much-Cora must separate family history from deliberate deception before another truth is buried with the dead.

Murder, Itemized opens the Hawthorne Reach Echo Mysteries, an atmospheric series set in coastal New England where traditional mystery-solving meets quiet magic, old houses, second chances, and a town with a very long memory.

The murder is solved in this book. Cora's story-and the deeper secrets of Hawthorne Reach-continue.