Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch

Its place in Aunt Dimity

Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch is book 17 in the Aunt Dimity series. It follows Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree. It is followed by Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince. 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…