Aunt Dimity: Detective

Its place in Aunt Dimity

Aunt Dimity: Detective is book 7 in the Aunt Dimity series. It follows Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil. It is followed by Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday. 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…