The Haunted Bookshop Witch Mysteries

Murder Hides in the Margins

Clean paranormal cozy mysteries with haunted bookshop magic, old family secrets, midlife reinvention, and a black cat who always seems to sit on the clue first.

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Welcome to Candlewick Cove

The bookshop remembers what the town buried.

Olivia Whitlock came back to the Maine coast to settle her aunt's estate, sell the old bookshop, and leave before Candlewick Cove could start feeling like home.

But The Wick & Page has other plans. Its shelves shift in the night. Its margins offer warnings. Its resident ghost remembers fear, not facts. And Inkwell, the black cat who came with the shop, has a gift for finding trouble before Olivia is ready for it.

Each mystery solves a murder. Together, the trilogy uncovers the old fire that made The Wick & Page a haunted bookshop.

Haunted Bookshop The Wick & Page is cozy, coastal, and very opinionated about evidence.
Midlife Magic Olivia is forty-seven, starting over, and learning that inheritance can be stranger than paperwork.
Fair-Play Whodunits The magic points. The clues prove. Every book ends with its murder solved.
Clean Cozy Mystery Bookish clues, warm community, slow-burn trust, no graphic gore, and no explicit heat.

The Trilogy

The Haunted Bookshop Witch Mysteries

Three complete cozy murder mysteries for readers who like haunted bookshops, bookish clues, midlife magic, and solved-at-the-end murders.

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Book One

Murder Between the Lines

A Haunted Bookshop Witch Mystery

She inherited a bookshop. The books inherited a murder.

Olivia Whitlock came to Candlewick Cove to settle an estate and sell a failing bookshop. Then a rare-book dealer is found dead during the literary weekend meant to save The Wick & Page.

The sheriff wants facts. The town wants gossip. The bookshop wants Olivia to pay attention. To survive her first week as Candlewick Cove's most reluctant amateur sleuth, Olivia will have to read between the lines before the killer edits her out of the story.

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Book Two

A Body in the Book Club

A Haunted Bookshop Witch Mystery

The first rule of mystery book club: do not become the body.

Olivia thought a mystery book club would bring warm lights, loyal readers, and a little badly needed cash into The Wick & Page.

Instead, the club's most controlling founder is dead, a fatal fall has been staged inside the bookshop, and every teacup on the table seems to belong to someone with a secret.

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Book Three

Spells, Scones, and Suspects

A Haunted Bookshop Witch Mystery

Scones, spells, and one murder the town thought it had buried.

Candlewick Cove's Scones & Stories festival should be the perfect celebration for Olivia Whitlock's haunted bookshop. Then retired fire marshal Harold Whitlock dies after uncovering proof that the old Wick & Page fire was never an accident.

To solve Harold's murder and expose the truth, Olivia will have to stop treating her inheritance like a problem and start using it like power.

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A Note From Clara

About Clara Finch

I write clean paranormal cozy mysteries where the magic is real, the murders are solvable, and the bookshop always knows more than it lets on.

The Haunted Bookshop Witch Mysteries are set along the Maine coast in a fictional town that runs on strong tea, gossip, and the kind of small-town loyalty that can shield a secret for decades.

Each book is a complete whodunit. You can read them in order for the fullest experience, but the mystery is always solved before the last page.

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Ottilie's Last Shelf

Before Olivia inherited The Wick & Page, her great-aunt hid one last warning in the shelves.