Aunt Dimity's Death

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Summary: Ok.......
Review: This book is a captivating read but it has a number of flaws.Firstly,the ghost of Aunt dimity returned and she actually communicated with Lori and Bill!!That part was hard to believe.Also,I found the character,Aunt Dimity,a little unbelievable.She seemed like a character from a fairytale,who created stories to brighten up people's lives.She was a too good to be true.However,I still give it 3 stars as i think it's still an awesome mystery,despite the flaws.It's definitely a great holiday read!

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Summary: Great fun, despite its predictable nature
Review: This book is just too much fun to resist. If you're looking for a great mystery or a gripping plot, you're in the wrong place. This book makes its mark with wonderful, fully alive characters you feel you know as friends by the final page. Much of the plot has something in common with a good slapstick comedy: if you have half a brain you know exactly what's coming next, but watching it arrive is still fun. I normally read straight mysteries (I fully gree with another commenter about the merits of Stephanie Plum, et. al.), but this is still a book I pick up for light, totally enjoyable reading. If only the sequels were as good as this, the first book.

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Summary: By far, one of the most charming stories I've ever read!
Review: This book was utter perfection...the coziest of cozies. It was soothing and heartwarming and packed with charm and wit. I can't remember the last time I've enjoyed a story quite this much. A fairy tale, a mystery and a romance all blended together with the skill of a gifted storyteller; I can't wait to give this as a gift.

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Summary: Orienteering, or Using a Compass and a Map
Review: This is a better written than usual mystery story. Nancy Atherton has chosen to write a series with an English theme in an English style and it comes off beautifully.

The narrator is surprised to learn that Aunt Dimity has died because she believed Aunt Dimity was a fictitious character created by her mother. The death is reported by Willis and Willis. The law firm occupies an old mansion. The two Willises have looked forward to meeting Lori Shepherd. The Willises have no servant problem. They have law students.

As she had planned, Aunt Dimity's appearance in the story is a surprise. She was an English woman, a Miss Westwood. In receiving her letters, in a sense from the dead, Lori also receives a task, to unravel the mystery and write a forward to childhood stories she has been told by her mother.

Miss Westwood requires that Lori write an introductory essay to a collection of Aunt Dimity tales. Lori is driven around by the younger of the two lawyers in his father's Silver Shadow. She needs to complete some errands prior to undertaking a Westwood prescribed trip to England. Her means are so limited that it takes her only twenty minutes to pack. She tells her apartment mates, temp service, and a former boss of the proposed journey. She travels to Maine to see her good friend, Meg Thompson.

The cottage in England, their destination, (the younger Willis, Bill is accompanying her to England), is located in Finch. It is lovely, although it seems to be too good to be true. Lori finds there archive boxes, her mother's letters, her mother's life. A neighbor gives Lori her mother's recipe for oatmeal cookies. Derk and Emma Harris, the neighbors, and Bill and Lori use the toasting forks in the cottage for the crumpets. Derk and Emma and Bill and Lori entertain the Pym sisters, twin daughters of the vicar now about one hundred years old. The Pyms have long memories.

There is a surprise in the book and I will not disclose it and spoil the fun. It has a certain magic. Anyone who has listened carefully to a parent's stories, and I have a talkative one, will appreciate this book. Other relationships spotlighted in this book are youthful friendships and love.

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Summary: A Great One Day Read!
Review: This is a fun book you can quickly read in one afternoon. It is easy to read and the time flies by as the story takes you to the English countryside. It revolves around a young woman's journey to her departed "Aunt's" cottage and the unusual happenings that go on there. There is also a bit of a love story woven in to entice romance readers. It was a delightful read and I look forward to reading the rest in the Aunt Dimity series.

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Summary: Absolutely one of the best, heart warming mysteries !!
Review: This is a wonderful book to read while spending an afternoon with a cup of tea, oatmeal cookies and window seat overlooking a beautiful garden. It is part love story, suspense story and mystery and it involves no murders!! I have read this book a couple of times since my initial discovery and it cheers my spirit everytime due to its warmth and charm. If you like old homes, England, lilacs, hot tea and a gentle ghost...read this!!

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Summary: Charming and Cozy with a Touch of Mystery and Romance
Review: This is the first in the delightful Aunt Dimity series and the reader's introduction to series heroine Lori Shepherd. Most of life's major crises have hit poor Lori---a divorce, the death of her beloved mother, and the dissolution of her job. If ever a heroine was down-on-her-luck, Lori is. But all that is about to change when she learns of the death of Aunt Dimity.

Lori is stunned, not because Dimity is dead but because Lori never knew she existed. To her, Dimity was a lively character in the stories her mother told her. But when Lori is summoned to the reading of Dimity's will, her whole life begins to change. A trip to England, a charming travelling companion, an elderly man with a dark secret, helpful neighbors, and an ivy-covered cottage with a garden of lilacs are all in Lori's future.

If you like to suspend reality, you will be delighted to meet Dimity's ghost, read along with Lori in the amazing blue journal, and you may even want a stuffed pink Reginald of your own.

Words like delighful, charming, and cozy may seem trite and overused but are the only way to describe this story about a lovable ghost and the young woman whose life she changes.

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Summary: 'A Little Princess' meets Stephanie Plum
Review: This is what you need when the noir world of Kinsey Milhone is weighing you down and you've read one too many quick come-backs in the Janet Evanovich books. Poor (and I do mean poor) Lori, cruelly dumped by her ex, has landed in Boston in reduced circumstances. Depressed by her mother's death and a string of soul-numbing temp jobs, she's astounded to learn a storybook character her mother created was indeed an actual person. Lori's circumstances begin to change. She moves briefly into a lush and lovely mansion and from there into a lilac-sheltered cottage in the Cotswolds. All is idyllic, but there are (natch) mysteries she has to solve - who was Aunt Dimity? Why was she wandering the London Zoo one miserable afternoon during the Blitz? And who is haunting her cottage?
Put a kettle on. Bake a batch of oatmeal cookies - recipe's on the back page. This book is a balm for a rattled and weary soul.

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Summary: Great Reading
Review: This was a wonderful book. A cute story with gentle humor. A book to curl up with on a quiet night.

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Summary: Aunt Dimity has a new fan
Review: To say that I'm a picky reader is an understatement, but after picking up Aunt Dimity's Death at my local library I was hooked from the start! My children aren't as excited because they found it hard to compete for my attention while reading it. This book was a refreshing change from my usual reading. Aunt Dimity is great and Lori goes on great adventures! I hope Ms.Atherton is home busy writing her newest novel and keeps them coming quick, because I've read them all so far! Take it from a choosy reader if you love reading books that keep you quessing from chapter to chapter you'll love reading about Aunt Dimity.