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The Maestro's Baton: A Cozy Paranormal Mystery in an English Village Antique Shop (The Hartley Catalogue Mysteries, Book 4)

The Maestro's Baton: A Cozy Paranormal Mystery in an English Village Antique Shop (The Hartley Catalogue Mysteries, Book 4)

Voss, Ivy

Paperback

Series: The Hartley Catalogue Mysteries, Book 4

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798186628699
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some music was never meant to finish. Now something wants it to.

When a dying man leaves Hartley's Curiosities an ornate silver-capped conductor's baton, Diana Hartley expects a strange bequest; not a sixty-year-old haunting. Sixty years ago, a conductor collapsed mid-performance, and his orchestra played on without him, note for note, until the piece stopped itself four bars from the end. No one has dared finish it since.

The baton remembers why.

As Keeper of the Catalogue, a back-room archive of objects that remember what people would rather forget; Diana has learned to trust the cold that crawls off a thing with a secret. This one hides a stolen name, a forgotten grave, and a quiet English village that has spent two generations pretending the silence was only ever about grief. And someone now believes the final coda is owed an ending, whatever it costs the person standing closest when the last note falls.

With her psychometric friend Sylvia, an archivist whose photographs catch what the eye can't, and a village policeman whose own gift for the dead keeps growing, Diana has three days before the festival concert to stop history repeating itself. Meridian, the grey shop cat, refuses to settle; and as usual, he already knows how it ends.

The Maestro's Baton is the fourth book in the Hartley Catalogue Mysteries, a cozy paranormal mystery series set in a haunted antique shop in an English village. If you love a cozy mystery with a cat, a clever middle-aged heroine, a charming British village full of secrets, and a gentle thread of magic running under the tea and gossip, Diana Hartley's world is waiting for you.

Perfect for readers who love: Cozy paranormal mysteries with a touch of magic. A cozy mystery with a cat who steals every scene. Small English and British village mystery settings. A magical antique shop full of objects with secrets. A smart, warm heroine over fifty who solves her own cases. A slow-burning mystery with heart, humour, and a little of the uncanny.

Curl up with a cozy paranormal mystery you won't want to put down. Each Hartley Catalogue Mystery is a complete story, and the series can be enjoyed in any order.

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