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.
Key facts about Aunt Dimity's Death
Aunt Dimity's Death is a novel by Nancy Atherton. Readers have had it since 1992. It runs to 256 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Aunt Dimity's Death. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780140178401 to find the main one.
Aunt Dimity's Death is book 1 of 25 in the Aunt Dimity series. The series has 25 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
That series sits on our cozy mystery shelf. Meanwhile, Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage is the latest published Nancy Atherton book on file, from 2022.
About Nancy Atherton
Nancy Atherton is an American author best known for the long-running Aunt Dimity cozy mystery series, which follows American widow Lori Shepherd as she settles in the English Cotswolds village of Finch and solves gentle local mysteries with guidance from the ghost of her late mother-in-law's best friend, Aunt Dimity, who communicates by writing in a blue journal. See every Nancy Atherton book in order.
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