Aunt Dimity and the Duke finds Fat, frumpy, forty- year- old Emma Porter, dumped by her longtime lover, is embarking on a driving tour of England?s glorious gardens. Her travels lead her to Penford Hall, where she soon realizes that overgrown flowerbeds aren?t the only things amiss. Guided by Aunt Dimity?s unseen hand, Emma comes back to life as she discovers the secrets of Penford Hall and the unexpected bloom of new romance.
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1410456412
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity's Good Deed
By Morrow, Bradford
Lori, the heroine of Aunt Dimity's Death, married to a workaholic attorney, finds herself and Aunt Dimity searching for her missing father-in-law and her pink flannel bunny, only to discover a centuries-old secret about her husband's family. 20,000 first printing. Tour.
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9780670867158
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Print book
Aunt Dimity Digs In
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy AthertonAunt Dimity's world, says Dorothy Cannell, is a kind, gentle place where oatmeal cookies, stuffed bunnies, and cozy cottages bring warmth and joy. The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series opens in the ghostly Dimity's idyllic English cottage. The lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles as she strives to be the perfect mother to twins! Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just in time so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by a visiting archaeologist's excavation. While Lori--with Reginald the stuffed pink rabbit and Edmond Terrance the stuffed tiger in tow--hunts down a missing document and the archaeologist digs up a lot more than artifacts, Dimity's magic blue notebook provides the key to buried secrets and domestic malice, and shows all the residents of Finch that even the darkest acts can be overcome by human forgiveness.
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9780670870615
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Book
Aunt Dimity's Christmas
By Atherton, Nancy
Lori Shepard's well-laid plans for holiday bliss are shattered when a mysterious stranger collapses in the driveway of her English cottage before Christmas and she teams up with a handsome Roman Catholic priest to solve the riddle of this John Doe's identity. 20,000 first printing. Tour.
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9780670884537
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil
By Atherton, Nancy
Lori Shepherd leaps at the chance to spend a few days away from the twins and hits the road to evaluate a rare book collection and stumbles across a mystery in the corridors of a Gothic castle. 17,500 first printing.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670891795
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity
By Atherton, Nancy
When murder comes to Lori Shpherd's village for the first time in over a century, she agrees to investigate, despite her own hectic life as a mother of twins. 17,500 first printing.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670030217
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday
By Atherton, Nancy
Accompanying her husband to the Earl of Harrisford's will reading, Lori Shepherd witnesses the Harrisford family erupt in a heated dispute involving burning topiaries, threatening notes, and suspicious maids before Lori turns to her phantom aunt for help. 25,000 first printing.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670032006
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy Athertons charming Aunt Dimity series has won the hearts of cozy mystery fans everywhere. Now, Lori Shepherd, feeling a touch world-weary, decides to become a volunteer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where she can spread a little good cheer in the community. There she meets Elizabeth Beacham, a kind, retired legal secretary with no family except a brother who has mysteriously disappeared. Lori is saddened when Miss Beacham passes away suddenly after only a few visits. But when she receives an envelope containing a set of keys and a letter Miss Beacham wrote to her just a few days before her death, it becomes clear that there was much more to the gentle invalid than met the eye. Notices start arriving around the village of the large bequests made before her death.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670033782
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea
By Atherton, Nancy
Another page-turning installment in Nancy Athertonxs beloved cozy mystery series featuring Aunt Dimity phantom detective Lori Shepherd is no stranger to trouble and intrigue But when Bill her high-profile attorney husband receives a number of chilling death threats aimed at his family danger hits close to home With Scotland Yard on the case Bill decides to send Lori and their five-year-old twins to the safety of a remote island off the coast of Scotland There another mystery begins to unfoldx Lori suspects that the locals on the island are making a fortune running an illegal smuggling operation What else could explain their luxurious lifestyles But after finding a human skull washed up on the beach Lori fears something even more sinister is going on With Aunt Dimityxs help Lori begins to piece together the clues unaware of the growing danger on the island Will the murderous threats against her family finally catch up with her Readers across America have fallen in love with Nancy Athertonxs mystery series and its popularity continues to grow and grow With its wonderful storytelling and characters and an evocative setting that leaps off the page Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea will have fans getting their feet wet as they follow the indefatigable supernatural sleuth once again.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670034765
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon
By Atherton, Nancy
Her eighth summer in the small English village of Finch happily brightened by the opening of a nearby Renaissance fair, Lori Shepherd finds the revelries shattered by dark undercurrents, including a madrigal singers stalker, a knights saboteur rival, and a would-be assassin who is targeting Good King Wilfred. 35,000 first printing.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670020508
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity Down Under
By Atherton, Nancy
The original supernatural sleuth is back in the latest cozy Aunt Dimity mystery A shock wave rocks Lori Shepherd's world when she hears that her beloved neighbors, Ruth and Louise Pym, may be dying. Bracing herself for a final farewell, Lori instead receives a request from the eccentric sisters: Find their long-lost brother before it's too late. Aubrey Pym is a wicked scoundrel who was banished from his family long ago; and much to Lori's surprise, she must travel all the way to New Zealand to find him. In granting her dear friends' dying wish, Lori sets out on a journey full of surprises. And with the help of a charming Kiwi and the otherworldly guidance of Aunt Dimity, Lori goes Down Under to search for the mysterious Aubrey, unraveling a web of secrets that has haunted the Pym family for generations. Nancy Atherton and her Aunt Dimity series have a dedicated fan base that eagerly awaits each new installment. With its exotic setting, endearing characters, and paranormal storyline, Aunt Dimity Down Under is sure to be a hit with loyal readers and new fans who are just discovering Aunt Dimity.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670021444
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Print book
Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree
By Atherton, Nancy
Cozy lovers' favorite otherworldly detective cracks a classic country-house case. In Atherton's sixteenth mystery, Lori Shepherd returns from Down Under to her normal life in the village of Finch. But Lori's normal quickly becomes anything but. Her debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. William Sr. expects a quiet, small-town life, but among the spinsters vying for his attention, shifty servants, and the discovery of a mysterious painting of a family tree in Fairworth's attic, he discovers that life in Finch is anything but quiet. On top of it all, Lori and William are embroiled in a case of deception and false identity by one of Finch's own. It's nothing the plucky Lori can't handle, but once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth-moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors-she calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance and uncovers the shadowy past beneath the estate's magnificent surface.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670022434
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy Athertons seventeenth cozy mystery featuring the beloved Aunt Dimity-the original paranormal detectiveWhen Amelia Thistle moves to Finch, her new neighbors welcome her with open arms-and inquiring minds. Among them is Lori Shepherd, who isnt fooled by Amelias unassuming persona. Amelia is, in fact, a world-famous artist with a rabid and eager-to-stalk fan base.In order to keep peace in Finch, Lori must help Amelia conceal her identity. Amelia, meanwhile, sets about working on the riddle that brought her to town in the first place. A fragment of a family diary hints that one of Amelias ancestors might have been Mistress Meg, the Mad Witch of Finch. Following the clue, Lori hunts through Finchs darkest and most secret corners, all the while dodging nosy neighbors and Amelias frantic fans.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670023417
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince
By Atherton, Nancy
A New York Times Bestselling Author -- When a finely wrought silver sleigh figurine turns up in her thrift shop, Lori Shepherd recognizes it instantly. The object had mesmerized the sweet but very poor nine- year- old Daisy Pickering at Sproggton Manor, the bizarre Jacobean house- turned- museum Lori recently visited with her twin sons. Lori decides to speak with the museum curator, who turns out to be oddly uninterested in the theft. But Lori?s search for the sleigh?s true owner leads to a tangled web of secrets.
Publisher: n/a
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9781410456960
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well
By Atherton, Nancy
Cozy mystery lovers' favorite paranormal sleuth is back with her nineteenth otherworldly adventure When a strapping young Australian named Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle's affairs, heads turn in the sleepy English village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch.After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true. Word spreads, and the villagers turn out in droves to make wishes of their own. But as they soon learn, one person's wish is another person's worst nightmare and the village is thrown into chaos.As more and more wishes come true, Lori resolves to find out what's really going on.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670026692
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Print book
Aunt Dimity and the Summer King
By Atherton, Nancy
Cozy mystery lovers' favorite paranormal sleuth is back with her twentieth otherworldly adventureIt's June, the roses are in bloom, and the small English village of Finch may be in big trouble. Two cottages are for sale, but something - or someone - is driving buyers away. Has a developer targeted Finch? Will property values skyrocket? Will a wave of wealthy weekenders drive out the longtime locals?Lori Shepherd has a lot on her plate - a brand-new baby daughter, her father-in-law's impending nuptials, and a visit from her dreaded aunts-in-law - but she refuses to stand back and watch while big money destroys her beloved village. Lori suspects that a local real estate agent is illicitly lining her pockets at Finch's expense, but before she can prove it, she's sidetracked by a chance encounter with an eccentric inventor.
Publisher: n/a
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9780670026708
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy Atherton's twenty-first cozy mystery in the beloved, Nationally Bestselling Aunt Dimity series.While exploring the attic in her cottage near the small English village of Finch, Lori Shepherd makes an extraordinary discovery: a gleaming gold and garnet bracelet that had once belonged to Aunt Dimity. When Lori shows the garnet bracelet to Aunt Dimity, it awakens poignant memories of a doomed romance in Aunt Dimity's youth in London after the War. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not: return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor - setting Lori off on an adventure through London - and through history - to put a piece of Aunt Dimity's past to rest. In the meantime, a new family has moved to Finch. The villagers are thrilled because their new neighbors are avid metal detectorists. Metal detectors soon become all the rage in Finch and the villagers unearth a lot of rubbish (some of it quite embarrassing) before one of them stumbles upon a trinket that could hold the key to the origin of Aunt Dimity's bracelet. Is the bracelet a priceless and protected national treasure? Was Aunt Dimity's lovesick suitor a common thief? If so, how will Lori break the news to Aunt Dimity? And what will she do with the bracelet? As Lori searches for answers, she discovers an unexpected link between the buried treasure in the village and the treasure buried in Aunt Dimity's heart.
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9781101981290
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Print book
Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy Atherton's twenty-second cozy mystery in the beloved, nationally bestselling Aunt Dimity series. It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared a week of roughing it with a curious toddler. The two attend a village events committee meeting and Lori is astonished when the elderly, soft-spoken widow Mrs. Annabelle Craven stands to make an announcement: she's decided to hold a quilting bee in the old schoolhouse. At the quilting bee, Lori ends up seated beside Mrs. Craven, delighted at the opportunity to learn more about her neighbor's life in the village of Old Cowerton. But dear, sweet Mrs. Craven's stories reveal a startling secret about her first husband's death. With Aunt Dimity's advice, Lori sets out to learn the truth about what the residents of Old Cowerton refer to as the "widow's curse"--and the deeper she digs, the more horrifying the tale becomes, until she discovers the most astounding revelation of all.
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9781101981320
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom
By Atherton, Nancy
In the 23rd installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dark and stormy night kicks off a ghost chase in rural England On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband Bill set off for the historic town of Rye, in the southeast coast of England, for a quiet weekend together without the kids. Bill must first pay a visit to a reclusive client--but after Lori drops him off, the storm that's been brewing intsensifies so much she ends up stranded in an ancient, rambling inn called the King's Ransom, in a tiny attic room up a creaky (and creepy) set of narrow stairs. When Lori begins hearing footsteps and strange noises in the night, Aunt Dimity reminds her rather tartly the inn is almost certainly haunted, but that not all ghosts have any interest in harming the living, don't you know. But the longer Lori is stuck at the inn, the stranger things seem. She learns that the inn's name comes from a king's ransom in smuggled goods that passed through the village in ages past, and that the inn's winding hallways connect to a network of smuggler caves and tunnels. And then there's the inn's hulking, grizzled cook, a mute ex-con named Steve who seems to be everywhere at once. Are the noises she hears the spirits of smuggling's past? Or should Lori be more concerned with the living inhabitants of the inn? Joining forces with her new friend Bishop Smallwood, Lori sets out to discover once and for all who--or what--is haunting the King's Ransom.
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9780525522652
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Hardcover
Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold
By Atherton, Nancy
In the newest installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dreary Christmas leads to hidden treature and new friendships It's almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch--and everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma and Derek Harris's annual Christmas bash, Lori Shepherd has no intention of missing it. When the winter weather takes a turn for the worse, it's agreed that none of the guests will leave until morning. There's general merriment as the Christmas party becomes a pajama party--until a car appears in the winding driveway and promptly slides off the slick pavement and into a tree. Matilda "Tilly" Trout--a lost and scatterbrained, middle-aged woman--is mercifully unhurt and invited to stay the night. The next morning, Emma asks her guests if they would like a tour of the Manor--including a secret room she recently discovered. Several guests put forth guesses as to its purpose, but it's Tilly who correctly identifies the room as a chapel. Placing a palm on one of the ornately-carved panels, Tilly finds a hidden compartment concealing a pile of glittering treasure--including an exquisitely decorated heart made of solid gold. Where did it come from, and why does it look so different from everything else in the chapel? Why didn't Emma even know about this hidden compartment in her own home until now--and how did Tilly?With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, Tilly's bewildering store of knowledge, and the village's collective memory to guide her, Lori sets out to unravel the mystery behind the heart of gold. Lori and Tilly both discover they'll never spend another holiday alone--and Christmas finally comes to Finch!
Aunt Dimity and the Duke
By Atherton, Nancy
Aunt Dimity and the Duke finds Fat, frumpy, forty- year- old Emma Porter, dumped by her longtime lover, is embarking on a driving tour of England?s glorious gardens. Her travels lead her to Penford Hall, where she soon realizes that overgrown flowerbeds aren?t the only things amiss. Guided by Aunt Dimity?s unseen hand, Emma comes back to life as she discovers the secrets of Penford Hall and the unexpected bloom of new romance.
Aunt Dimity's Good Deed
By Morrow, Bradford
Lori, the heroine of Aunt Dimity's Death, married to a workaholic attorney, finds herself and Aunt Dimity searching for her missing father-in-law and her pink flannel bunny, only to discover a centuries-old secret about her husband's family. 20,000 first printing. Tour.
Aunt Dimity Digs In
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy AthertonAunt Dimity's world, says Dorothy Cannell, is a kind, gentle place where oatmeal cookies, stuffed bunnies, and cozy cottages bring warmth and joy. The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series opens in the ghostly Dimity's idyllic English cottage. The lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles as she strives to be the perfect mother to twins! Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just in time so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by a visiting archaeologist's excavation. While Lori--with Reginald the stuffed pink rabbit and Edmond Terrance the stuffed tiger in tow--hunts down a missing document and the archaeologist digs up a lot more than artifacts, Dimity's magic blue notebook provides the key to buried secrets and domestic malice, and shows all the residents of Finch that even the darkest acts can be overcome by human forgiveness.
Aunt Dimity's Christmas
By Atherton, Nancy
Lori Shepard's well-laid plans for holiday bliss are shattered when a mysterious stranger collapses in the driveway of her English cottage before Christmas and she teams up with a handsome Roman Catholic priest to solve the riddle of this John Doe's identity. 20,000 first printing. Tour.
Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil
By Atherton, Nancy
Lori Shepherd leaps at the chance to spend a few days away from the twins and hits the road to evaluate a rare book collection and stumbles across a mystery in the corridors of a Gothic castle. 17,500 first printing.
Aunt Dimity
By Atherton, Nancy
When murder comes to Lori Shpherd's village for the first time in over a century, she agrees to investigate, despite her own hectic life as a mother of twins. 17,500 first printing.
Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday
By Atherton, Nancy
Accompanying her husband to the Earl of Harrisford's will reading, Lori Shepherd witnesses the Harrisford family erupt in a heated dispute involving burning topiaries, threatening notes, and suspicious maids before Lori turns to her phantom aunt for help. 25,000 first printing.
Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy Athertons charming Aunt Dimity series has won the hearts of cozy mystery fans everywhere. Now, Lori Shepherd, feeling a touch world-weary, decides to become a volunteer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where she can spread a little good cheer in the community. There she meets Elizabeth Beacham, a kind, retired legal secretary with no family except a brother who has mysteriously disappeared. Lori is saddened when Miss Beacham passes away suddenly after only a few visits. But when she receives an envelope containing a set of keys and a letter Miss Beacham wrote to her just a few days before her death, it becomes clear that there was much more to the gentle invalid than met the eye. Notices start arriving around the village of the large bequests made before her death.
Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea
By Atherton, Nancy
Another page-turning installment in Nancy Athertonxs beloved cozy mystery series featuring Aunt Dimity phantom detective Lori Shepherd is no stranger to trouble and intrigue But when Bill her high-profile attorney husband receives a number of chilling death threats aimed at his family danger hits close to home With Scotland Yard on the case Bill decides to send Lori and their five-year-old twins to the safety of a remote island off the coast of Scotland There another mystery begins to unfoldx Lori suspects that the locals on the island are making a fortune running an illegal smuggling operation What else could explain their luxurious lifestyles But after finding a human skull washed up on the beach Lori fears something even more sinister is going on With Aunt Dimityxs help Lori begins to piece together the clues unaware of the growing danger on the island Will the murderous threats against her family finally catch up with her Readers across America have fallen in love with Nancy Athertonxs mystery series and its popularity continues to grow and grow With its wonderful storytelling and characters and an evocative setting that leaps off the page Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea will have fans getting their feet wet as they follow the indefatigable supernatural sleuth once again.
Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon
By Atherton, Nancy
Her eighth summer in the small English village of Finch happily brightened by the opening of a nearby Renaissance fair, Lori Shepherd finds the revelries shattered by dark undercurrents, including a madrigal singers stalker, a knights saboteur rival, and a would-be assassin who is targeting Good King Wilfred. 35,000 first printing.
Aunt Dimity Down Under
By Atherton, Nancy
The original supernatural sleuth is back in the latest cozy Aunt Dimity mystery A shock wave rocks Lori Shepherd's world when she hears that her beloved neighbors, Ruth and Louise Pym, may be dying. Bracing herself for a final farewell, Lori instead receives a request from the eccentric sisters: Find their long-lost brother before it's too late. Aubrey Pym is a wicked scoundrel who was banished from his family long ago; and much to Lori's surprise, she must travel all the way to New Zealand to find him. In granting her dear friends' dying wish, Lori sets out on a journey full of surprises. And with the help of a charming Kiwi and the otherworldly guidance of Aunt Dimity, Lori goes Down Under to search for the mysterious Aubrey, unraveling a web of secrets that has haunted the Pym family for generations. Nancy Atherton and her Aunt Dimity series have a dedicated fan base that eagerly awaits each new installment. With its exotic setting, endearing characters, and paranormal storyline, Aunt Dimity Down Under is sure to be a hit with loyal readers and new fans who are just discovering Aunt Dimity.
Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree
By Atherton, Nancy
Cozy lovers' favorite otherworldly detective cracks a classic country-house case. In Atherton's sixteenth mystery, Lori Shepherd returns from Down Under to her normal life in the village of Finch. But Lori's normal quickly becomes anything but. Her debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. William Sr. expects a quiet, small-town life, but among the spinsters vying for his attention, shifty servants, and the discovery of a mysterious painting of a family tree in Fairworth's attic, he discovers that life in Finch is anything but quiet. On top of it all, Lori and William are embroiled in a case of deception and false identity by one of Finch's own. It's nothing the plucky Lori can't handle, but once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth-moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors-she calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance and uncovers the shadowy past beneath the estate's magnificent surface.
Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy Athertons seventeenth cozy mystery featuring the beloved Aunt Dimity-the original paranormal detectiveWhen Amelia Thistle moves to Finch, her new neighbors welcome her with open arms-and inquiring minds. Among them is Lori Shepherd, who isnt fooled by Amelias unassuming persona. Amelia is, in fact, a world-famous artist with a rabid and eager-to-stalk fan base.In order to keep peace in Finch, Lori must help Amelia conceal her identity. Amelia, meanwhile, sets about working on the riddle that brought her to town in the first place. A fragment of a family diary hints that one of Amelias ancestors might have been Mistress Meg, the Mad Witch of Finch. Following the clue, Lori hunts through Finchs darkest and most secret corners, all the while dodging nosy neighbors and Amelias frantic fans.
Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince
By Atherton, Nancy
A New York Times Bestselling Author -- When a finely wrought silver sleigh figurine turns up in her thrift shop, Lori Shepherd recognizes it instantly. The object had mesmerized the sweet but very poor nine- year- old Daisy Pickering at Sproggton Manor, the bizarre Jacobean house- turned- museum Lori recently visited with her twin sons. Lori decides to speak with the museum curator, who turns out to be oddly uninterested in the theft. But Lori?s search for the sleigh?s true owner leads to a tangled web of secrets.
Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well
By Atherton, Nancy
Cozy mystery lovers' favorite paranormal sleuth is back with her nineteenth otherworldly adventure When a strapping young Australian named Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle's affairs, heads turn in the sleepy English village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch.After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true. Word spreads, and the villagers turn out in droves to make wishes of their own. But as they soon learn, one person's wish is another person's worst nightmare and the village is thrown into chaos.As more and more wishes come true, Lori resolves to find out what's really going on.
Aunt Dimity and the Summer King
By Atherton, Nancy
Cozy mystery lovers' favorite paranormal sleuth is back with her twentieth otherworldly adventureIt's June, the roses are in bloom, and the small English village of Finch may be in big trouble. Two cottages are for sale, but something - or someone - is driving buyers away. Has a developer targeted Finch? Will property values skyrocket? Will a wave of wealthy weekenders drive out the longtime locals?Lori Shepherd has a lot on her plate - a brand-new baby daughter, her father-in-law's impending nuptials, and a visit from her dreaded aunts-in-law - but she refuses to stand back and watch while big money destroys her beloved village. Lori suspects that a local real estate agent is illicitly lining her pockets at Finch's expense, but before she can prove it, she's sidetracked by a chance encounter with an eccentric inventor.
Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy Atherton's twenty-first cozy mystery in the beloved, Nationally Bestselling Aunt Dimity series.While exploring the attic in her cottage near the small English village of Finch, Lori Shepherd makes an extraordinary discovery: a gleaming gold and garnet bracelet that had once belonged to Aunt Dimity. When Lori shows the garnet bracelet to Aunt Dimity, it awakens poignant memories of a doomed romance in Aunt Dimity's youth in London after the War. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not: return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor - setting Lori off on an adventure through London - and through history - to put a piece of Aunt Dimity's past to rest. In the meantime, a new family has moved to Finch. The villagers are thrilled because their new neighbors are avid metal detectorists. Metal detectors soon become all the rage in Finch and the villagers unearth a lot of rubbish (some of it quite embarrassing) before one of them stumbles upon a trinket that could hold the key to the origin of Aunt Dimity's bracelet. Is the bracelet a priceless and protected national treasure? Was Aunt Dimity's lovesick suitor a common thief? If so, how will Lori break the news to Aunt Dimity? And what will she do with the bracelet? As Lori searches for answers, she discovers an unexpected link between the buried treasure in the village and the treasure buried in Aunt Dimity's heart.
Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse
By Atherton, Nancy
Nancy Atherton's twenty-second cozy mystery in the beloved, nationally bestselling Aunt Dimity series. It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared a week of roughing it with a curious toddler. The two attend a village events committee meeting and Lori is astonished when the elderly, soft-spoken widow Mrs. Annabelle Craven stands to make an announcement: she's decided to hold a quilting bee in the old schoolhouse. At the quilting bee, Lori ends up seated beside Mrs. Craven, delighted at the opportunity to learn more about her neighbor's life in the village of Old Cowerton. But dear, sweet Mrs. Craven's stories reveal a startling secret about her first husband's death. With Aunt Dimity's advice, Lori sets out to learn the truth about what the residents of Old Cowerton refer to as the "widow's curse"--and the deeper she digs, the more horrifying the tale becomes, until she discovers the most astounding revelation of all.
Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom
By Atherton, Nancy
In the 23rd installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dark and stormy night kicks off a ghost chase in rural England On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband Bill set off for the historic town of Rye, in the southeast coast of England, for a quiet weekend together without the kids. Bill must first pay a visit to a reclusive client--but after Lori drops him off, the storm that's been brewing intsensifies so much she ends up stranded in an ancient, rambling inn called the King's Ransom, in a tiny attic room up a creaky (and creepy) set of narrow stairs. When Lori begins hearing footsteps and strange noises in the night, Aunt Dimity reminds her rather tartly the inn is almost certainly haunted, but that not all ghosts have any interest in harming the living, don't you know. But the longer Lori is stuck at the inn, the stranger things seem. She learns that the inn's name comes from a king's ransom in smuggled goods that passed through the village in ages past, and that the inn's winding hallways connect to a network of smuggler caves and tunnels. And then there's the inn's hulking, grizzled cook, a mute ex-con named Steve who seems to be everywhere at once. Are the noises she hears the spirits of smuggling's past? Or should Lori be more concerned with the living inhabitants of the inn? Joining forces with her new friend Bishop Smallwood, Lori sets out to discover once and for all who--or what--is haunting the King's Ransom.
Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold
By Atherton, Nancy
In the newest installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dreary Christmas leads to hidden treature and new friendships It's almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch--and everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma and Derek Harris's annual Christmas bash, Lori Shepherd has no intention of missing it. When the winter weather takes a turn for the worse, it's agreed that none of the guests will leave until morning. There's general merriment as the Christmas party becomes a pajama party--until a car appears in the winding driveway and promptly slides off the slick pavement and into a tree. Matilda "Tilly" Trout--a lost and scatterbrained, middle-aged woman--is mercifully unhurt and invited to stay the night. The next morning, Emma asks her guests if they would like a tour of the Manor--including a secret room she recently discovered. Several guests put forth guesses as to its purpose, but it's Tilly who correctly identifies the room as a chapel. Placing a palm on one of the ornately-carved panels, Tilly finds a hidden compartment concealing a pile of glittering treasure--including an exquisitely decorated heart made of solid gold. Where did it come from, and why does it look so different from everything else in the chapel? Why didn't Emma even know about this hidden compartment in her own home until now--and how did Tilly?With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, Tilly's bewildering store of knowledge, and the village's collective memory to guide her, Lori sets out to unravel the mystery behind the heart of gold. Lori and Tilly both discover they'll never spend another holiday alone--and Christmas finally comes to Finch!