Beatrix Greene Books in Order

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene is a gothic horror story written by Rachel Hawkins with Ash Parsons and Vicky Alvear Shecter. It began as a serialized audio and digital story, which helps explain its brisk, episode-like shape. Each section adds another locked door, another secret, and another reason not to trust Ashbury Manor.

The story is set in Victorian England and follows Beatrix Greene, a spiritual medium with a useful reputation and a practical problem: she knows her séances are fake. Beatrix is clever, observant, and very aware that financial freedom for a single woman is not easy to come by. So when scientist James Walker offers her a large fee to help prove whether ghosts are real, she takes the job even though she suspects he may be trying to expose her.

Then Ashbury Manor answers back.

James is not just a skeptic with a theory. He has personal reasons for wanting the séance to work, and the house has a history that is not content to stay buried. Beatrix arrives with a group of investigators and curiosity seekers, including a famous literary figure, only to discover that the haunting is real and much more dangerous than anyone expected. Once the doors will not let them leave, the story becomes a race to understand what happened in the manor before the ghost claims another victim.

The appeal here is classic haunted-house pressure. The setting is grand, gloomy, and hostile. The characters begin with masks, Beatrix as the fraudulent medium, James as the rational man of science, and those masks become harder to keep on as fear rises. Their wary attraction adds warmth, but the romance does not erase the horror. The house still wants something.

Because it is a single-season story rather than a long book series, The Haunting of Beatrix Greene is easy to place in a reading order. Pick it up when you want Hawkins in a darker historical mode, with fog, séances, family secrets, and a heroine who has to decide what she believes when the dead stop behaving like a performance.

It is a good fit for readers who like their ghost stories eerie, quick-moving, and character-focused.