Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom

Its place in Aunt Dimity

Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom is book 23 in the Aunt Dimity series. It follows Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse. It is followed by Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold. See the full Aunt Dimity reading order.

American expatriate Lori Shepherd inherits a cottage in the English village of Finch from a woman she's never met: Dimity Westwood, an old friend of her late father's whom Lori grew up hearing about as a bedtime-story character. Dimity turns out to be very real, and very dead — and she communicates with Lori from beyond the grave through the pages of a blue journal, offering gentle guidance (and gossip) as Lori settles into village life, marries local landowner Bill Willis, and stumbles into a new cozy mystery…