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Summary: "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:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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Summary: "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 stranded in an ancient, rambling inn called The King's Ransom. When Lori...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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Summary: A Boston computer expert and amateur gardener, Emma Porter, lands a job in England on a duke's estate where a murder occurred. Together with another employee, an artist restoring a chapel, she proceeds to investigate and finds love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1994
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Summary: Lori Shepherd, the overprotective mother of five-year-old horse-obsessed twins, is alarmed when her sons insist they saw a vampire during their riding lessons. From her strange friendship with the spectral Aunt Dimity, Lori knows anything's possible, even vampires, though Lori fears a pedophile may be skulking in the woods outside the Cotswolds village where she and her family live. In search...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Lori Shepherd leaps at the chance to spend a few days away from her twin toddlers and hits the road to evaluate a rare book collection, where she stumbles across a mystery in the corridors of a Gothic castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: The twenty-second Aunt Dimity cozy follows Lori's investigation into an eerie local legend from the small English village of Old Cowerton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Lori Shepherd, with the ghost of her Aunt Dimity by her side, uncovers skeletons in the closets at a lush English country estate where her husband has been summoned to a will reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: Accompanying her husband to the Earl of Harrisford's will reading, Lori Shepherd witnesses the Harrisford family erupt in a heated dispute involving burning topiaries, threatening notes, and suspicious maids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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Summary: Volunteering at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Lori Shepherd befriends a lonely retired secretary who soon passes away, and when Lori discovers that the woman possessed a considerable estate, she attempts to locate the woman's next-of-kin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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Summary: When Lori brings an expensive bracelet she found to Aunt Dimity, she asks Lori to do what she could not do herself: return it to her unsuccessful suitor or to his rightful heir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2016
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Summary: Overseeing her baby, a family wedding and her own approaching 40th birthday celebration amid rumors that a developer has unwanted plans for Finch village, Lori bonds with a warmhearted inventor only to discover his true intentions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Summary: It's almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch--and everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma and Derek Harris's annual Christmas bash, Lori Shepherd has no intention of missing it. When thewinter weather takes a turn for the worse, it's agreed that none of the guests will leave until morning. There's general merriment as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Summary: U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd and Aunt Dimity investigate sabotage (and possible regicide) at a local Renaissance faire held in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Finch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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Summary: U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd and Aunt Dimity investigate sabotage (and possible regicide) at a local Renaissance faire held in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Finch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: A cozy mystery in an English village where a row has erupted over an archeological find. Some say it is genuine, others that it is a fake. Aided by the ghost of Aunt Dimity, sleuth Lori Shepherd investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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Summary: With the help of a charming Kiwi and the otherworldly guidance of Aunt Dimity, Lori Shepherd goes Down Under to search for the Pym sisters' missing brother, unraveling a web of secrets that has haunted the Pym family for generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Arriving in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado only to find herself enmeshed in a missing-persons case, Lori Shepherd becomes suspicious about a hundred-year-old mystery and a charming man who seems to know more than he will admit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: "In the twenty-fifth installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, when an inscrutable newcomer arrives in Finch, Lori is determined to befriend him--and in the process discovers Finch's own heart-wrenching past. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Concerned for her preschooler twins' safety in the face of tales about a pale, blood-stained figure lurking in the nearby woods, Lori consults with her not-quite-departed Aunt Dimity and stumbles upon the truth about a forty-year-old murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008