Aunt Dimity · Book 1
Aunt Dimity's Death
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780140178401
- Type
- novel
About this book
Aunt Dimity's Death opens the series in 1992, introducing American Lori Shepherd as she inherits a Cotswolds cottage from Dimity Westwood, a woman she knew only as a bedtime-story figure -- and discovers Dimity is very real, very dead, and still writing to her through a blue journal. At 256 pages, it lays down the gentle ghost-story premise every later entry builds on.
Its place in Aunt Dimity
Aunt Dimity's Death is book 1 in the Aunt Dimity series. It is followed by Aunt Dimity and the Duke. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780143116066
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780140178401