Nancy Atherton

Lori kann es kaum erwarten, mit ihrem Ehemann Bill und ihren neun Monate alten Zwillingen das Weihnachtsfest in Tante Dimitys Cottage zu feiern. Doch dann macht sie eine beunruhigende Entdeckung: Im verschneiten Garten liegt ein Mann, halberfroren. Wer ist der Fremde? Was will er von Tante Dimity? Leider kann der Mann Loris Fragen nicht beantworten, denn er liegt im Koma. Unterstützt von Tante Dimity, die über ihr blaues Tagebuch mit ihr kommuniziert,...

Lori und Bill sind nach England gezogen und wohnen jetzt in Tante Dimitys Cottage. Die frischgebackene Mutter Lori hat alle Hände voll zu tun und ist erleichtert, als die attraktive Francesca ihre Hilfe als Kindermädchen für die Zwillinge anbietet. Endlich kann sie sich um andere Dinge kümmern, die in Finch für Aufregung sorgen. Durch die Entdeckung eines antiken Römergrabes droht das geplante Erntedankfest ins Wasser zu fallen. Kann Lori mit...

"Als ich von Tante Dimitys Tod hörte, war ich fassungslos. Nicht weil sie tot war, sondern weil ich bis dahin nicht wusste, dass es sie gegeben hatte." Lori Shepherd ist frisch geschieden und pleite. Als auch noch ihre geliebte Mutter stirbt, glaubt sie vollends den Boden unter den Füßen zu verlieren. Da erhält sie die Nachricht von einer Anwaltskanzlei: Lori soll das Erbe ihrer Tante Dimity antreten. Hat es Tante Dimity, die Figur aus den Gutenacht-Geschichten...

"It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's newest resident prove yet again its enchanting ability to matchmake? But when Crispin Windle arrives, no one knows what to make of him: seemingly a loner, he repels every welcoming gesture and appears altogether uninterested in being a part...

"While exploring the attic in her cottage near the small English village of Finch, Lori Shepherd makes an extraordinary discovery: a gleaming gold and garnet bracelet that had once belonged to Aunt Dimity. When Lori shows the garnet bracelet to Aunt Dimity, it awakens poignant memories of a doomed romance in Aunt Dimity's youth. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not: return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor--setting Lori...

"In the 23rd installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dark and stormy night kicks off a ghost chase in rural England On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband Bill set off for the historic town of Rye, on the southeast coast of England, for a quiet weekend together without the kids. Bill must first pay a visit to a reclusive client--but after Lori drops him off, a powerful storm drives her off course and leaves her...

"When a strapping young Australian named Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle's affairs, heads turn in the sleepy English village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch. After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true....

Everyone's favorite paranormal detective is back in Nancy Atherton's thirteenth Aunt Dimity mystery-but this time Lori's supernatural confidante may not be the only one who's not quite dead. Could the cloaked figure Lori's twins saw in the woods near the family's English country cottage really have been a vampire? Atherton's ever-growing legion of fans and all fans of cozy mysteries will find themselves curling up with a nice cup of garlic- er, tea-for...

Lori Shepherd's debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. But once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth--moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors--Lori calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance.

Lori's peaceful English village is being overrun by a rowdy and mischievous Renaissance fair Lori Shepherd loves living in the small English village of Finch, but as her eighth summer in the town approaches she finds herself wishing for something exciting to spice up her all-too-familiar routine. When King Wilfred's Faire opens nearby, Lori gets her wish and more. The age of chivalry lives again at the Renaissance fair. Wizards, wenches, magicians,...