Aunt Dimity mysteries
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Down-on-her-luck Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was a pretend character in her mother's bedtime stories ... until the Dickensian law firm of Willis & Willis offers the possibility of large inheritance -- if she can discover the secret hidden in letters between Dimity and her mother. Plus 1-pg recipe Beth's Oatmeal Cookies"--
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers. Suspecting there's...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 3
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English
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"Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her "niece," Lori Shepherd. Thanks to Aunt Dimity, Lori's life has taken on fairy-tale proportions: she's financially set for life and happily married or so she thinks. When Lori's plans for a second honeymoon to England with her workaholic husband fall through, she begrudgingly takes along...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 4
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English
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"The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuring the beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque English cottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles, striving 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.With Reginald, the stuffed pink...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Lori can hardly wait for Christmas this year: lean times are over, the cottage Aunt Dimity willed her is more beautiful than ever, her nine-month-old twins, Will and Rob, are thriving, and she and husband Bill have never been happier. Determined to make this Christmas the best ever, Lori embarks on a round of shopping, holly-cutting, angel-cookie making, and more. When fat snow flakes begin drifting down outside of the window, Lori feels all her...
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English
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"Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil takes place ten months after Aunt Dimity's Christmas. The twins are walking and talking and Lori is going stir crazy. When her old boss, Stan Finderman, asks her to travel to Tarrant Hall in Northumberland to evaluate a book collection, she jumps at the chance.Lori arrives to find a creepy Victorian mansion with turrets and towers. But her hosts, newlyweds Nicola and Paul Hollander, warmly welcome Lori into their home....
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 7
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English
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When murder comes to Lori Shepherd's village for the first time in over a century, she agrees to investigate, despite her own hectic life as a mother of twins.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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After being caught in a blizzard, Lori Shepherd takes refuge in Ladythorne Abbey, the former home of the late Lucasta DeClerke, where she uncovers a plot to steal a priceless DeClerke family heirloom.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Volunteering at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Lori Shepherd befriends a lonely retired secretary who soon passes away, and when Lori discovers that the woman possessed a considerable estate, she attempts to locate the woman's next-of-kin.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sent with her twin five-year-old sons to a Scottish island after her high-profile attorney husband receives death threats, Lori Shepherd begins to suspect local foul play upon her discovery of a skull on the beach.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
228 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado only to find herself enmeshed in a missing-persons case, Lori Sheppard becomes suspicious about a hundred-year-old mystery and a charming man who seems to know more than he will admit.
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Series
Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lori Shepherd’s life in England couldn’t be more tranquil or more satisfying-- except for one thing. Her five-year-old twins have started school, and Lori fears they’ll catch everything from the flu to fleas. What they do come home with, however, is worse: a report of a pale, cloaked figure with bloodstained lips lurking in the woods. Lori is skeptical at first but soon grows concerned enough to consult with her late (but not entirely departed)...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Lori's peaceful English village is being overrun by a rowdy and mischievous Renaissance fair. Lori Shepherd loves living in the small English village of Finch, but as her eighth summer in the town approaches she finds herself wishing for something exciting to spice up her all-too-familiar routine. When King Wilfred's Faire opens nearby, Lori gets her wish and more. The age of chivalry lives again at the Renaissance fair. Wizards, wenches, magicians,...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Viking Adult
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Atherton's seventeenth cozy mystery featuring the beloved Aunt Dimity-the original paranormal detective When Amelia Thistle moves to Finch, her new neighbors welcome her with open arms-and inquiring minds. Among them is Lori Shepherd, who isn't fooled by Amelia's 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....
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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When a silver sleigh recently stolen from a local museum turns up in her thrift shop, paranormal sleuth Lori Shepherd is surprised by the curator's lack of interest in the theft, a situation that prompts Lori to turn to Aunt Dimity for otherworldly advice on how to track down the sleigh's true owner.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 19
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English
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"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....
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 20
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English
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Overseeing her baby, a family wedding and her own approaching 40th birthday celebration amid rumors that a developer has unwanted plans for Finch village, Lori bonds with a warmhearted inventor only to discover his true intentions.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 21
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English
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"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. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not: return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor--setting Lori...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 22
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English
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"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....
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English
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Stranded in a rural inn on England's southeast coast, Lori discovers the location's past as a smuggler hangout before investigating suspicious activities among the living and the dead that may be responsible for ghostly nighttime noises.
With advice from a ghost-- her dead Aunt Dimity-- Lori learns that she is stranded at an inn that was once a hangout for smugglers. Her husband Bill is paying a visit to a reclusive client, and Lori is hearing ghostly...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 24
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English
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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...
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English
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"In the twenty-fifth installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, when an inscrutable newcomer arrives in Finch, Lori is determined to befriend him--and in the process discovers Finch's own heart-wrenching past. It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's newest resident prove yet...