Nancy Atherton

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1992
  • Latest Book:
    May 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Aunt Dimity

1 - Aunt Dimity's Death (Nov-1992)
2 - Aunt Dimity and the Duke (Nov-1994)
3 - Aunt Dimity's Good Deed (Oct-1996)
4 - Aunt Dimity Digs In (Mar-1998)
5 - Aunt Dimity's Christmas (Oct-1999)
6 - Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil (Oct-2000)
7 - Aunt Dimity: Detective (Sep-2001)
8 - Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday (Mar-2003)
9 - Aunt Dimity: Snowbound (Feb-2004)
10 - Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin (Feb-2005)
11 - Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea (Feb-2006)
12 - Aunt Dimity Goes West (Feb-2007)
13 - Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter (Feb-2008)
14 - Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon (Feb-2009)
15 - Aunt Dimity Down Under (Feb-2010)
16 - Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree (Feb-2011)
17 - Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch (May-2012)
18 - Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince (Apr-2013)
19 - Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well (Apr-2014)
20 - Aunt Dimity and the Summer King (Apr-2015)
21 - Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure (May-2016)
22 - Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse (Jun-2017)
23 - Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom (Jul-2018)
24 - Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold (Jun-2019)
25 - Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage (May-2022)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Aunt Dimity's Death

    Aunt Dimity - 1

    Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was just a character in a bedtime story ... ... Until the Dickensian law firm of Willis & Willis summons her to a reading of the woman's will. Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she's about to inherit a sizable ...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Duke

    Aunt Dimity - 2

    A broken heart, a missing lantern, and a dead rock star... thank goodness being dead won't stop Aunt Dimity from lending a helping hand. Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her fo...

  • Honeymoon

    in Malice Domestic 5

    Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Phyllis A. Whitney, author of more than seventy bestsellers, presides over a salon of today's wittiest writers of mystery in this sparkling new addition to the series. MALICE DOMESTIC 5 once again delivers the ...

  • Aunt Dimity's Good Deed

    Aunt Dimity - 3

    Thanks to her benevolent late Aunt Dimity, Lori Shepherd thought she had everything: a Handsome Prince for a husband and a cozy, honey-colored cottage to call her own. But after two years of marriage, Lori's paradise doesn't seem quite so per...

  • Aunt Dimity Digs In

    Aunt Dimity - 4

    Aunt Dimity unearths the sinister secrets of the idyllic town of Finch Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles for her three-month-old twins. When a beautiful nanny arrives to lend a hand, it's not a moment too ...

  • Aunt Dimity's Christmas

    Aunt Dimity - 5

    Lori Shepherd can hardly wait to celebrate Christmas this year with her husband, Bill, and their twin sons in the beautiful cottage willed to her by Aunt Dimity. But then Lori makes a disturbing discovery beneath the cottage's snow-covered lilac ...

  • Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil

    Aunt Dimity - 6

    A tale of family secrets, yesteryear romance, and spirits less friendly than Aunt Dimity Lori Shepherd is on her way to Wyrdhurst Hall to evaluate its owners' rare book collection. The grim, neo-Gothic castle, the books, and the journey to thi...

  • Aunt Dimity: Detective

    Aunt Dimity - 7

    There's been a murder in Finch! When Lori Shepherd returns from her trip to America, she is shocked to hear that Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper has been killed. This is the first murder in the idyllic village of Finch in more than a century, and ever...

  • Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday

    Aunt Dimity - 8

    A new will wreaks havoc at a grand Palladian country house -- and everyone s favorite supernatural sleuth is just in time to set things right When Lori Shepherd's husband, Bill, is summoned to the reading of a will at the resplendent country e...



  • Aunt Dimity: Snowbound

    Aunt Dimity - 9

    In the midst of a raging blizzard, an old English abbey hides a mystery thicker than the accumulating snow When Lori Shepherd's hike is cut short by the blizzard of the century, she has no choice but to seek refuge in Ladythorne Abbey, the fabulou...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin

    Aunt Dimity - 10

    Hidden among her belongings are clues that Lori feels certain Miss Beacham wished to be discovered after her death Feeling a touch world-weary, Lori Shepherd decides to become a volunteer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where she meets Elizabeth Beach...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea

    Aunt Dimity - 11

    The magnificent Dunrillin Castle seems like a good place to hide .. . When Lori Shepherd's husband receives a series of death threats aimed at her and their twin boys, she retreats to a remote island off the Scottish coast and to a fabulous castle...

  • Aunt Dimity Goes West

    Aunt Dimity - 12

    Everyone's favorite sleuth heads to the Rocky Mountains in the twelfth installment of Nancy Atherton's cozy mystery series Lori Sheppard barely survived her last adventure in Scotland before she's off on her next. This time in the mountain town o...

  • Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter

    Aunt Dimity - 13

    The original paranormal detective returns in the latest installment of a beloved mystery series Lori Shepherd's life in England couldn't be more tranquil or more satisfying -- except for one thing. Her five- year-old twins have started sc...

  • Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon

    Aunt Dimity - 14

    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 ...

  • Aunt Dimity Down Under

    Aunt Dimity - 15

    The original supernatural sleuth is back in the latest cozy Aunt Dimity mystery A shock wave rocks Lori Shepherd's world when she hears that her beloved neighbors, Ruth and Louise Pym, may be dying. Bracing herself for a final farewell, Lori inste...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree

    Aunt Dimity - 16

    Cozy lovers' favorite otherworldly detective cracks a classic country-house case. In Atherton's sixteenth mystery, Lori Shepherd returns from Down Under to her normal life in the village of Finch. But Lori's normal quickly becomes anyt...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch

    Aunt Dimity - 17

    When Amelia Thistle moves to Finch, her new neighbors welcome her with open arms-and inquiring minds. Among them is Lori Shepherd, who isn't fooled by Amelia's unassuming persona. Amelia is, in fact, a world-famous artist with a rabid and eager-to-st...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince

    Aunt Dimity - 18

    On the heels of two bestsellers, everyone’s favorite paranormal detective embarks on her eighteenth cozy adventure It’s a cold, dreary February in the sleepy village of Finch and Lori Shepherd has two stir-crazy kids on her hands. So she leaps...



  • Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well

    Aunt Dimity - 19

    Cozy mystery lovers’ favorite paranormal sleuth is back with her nineteenth otherworldly adventure 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 vi...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Summer King

    Aunt Dimity - 20

    Cozy mystery lovers’ favorite paranormal sleuth is back with her twentieth otherworldly adventure It’s June, the roses are in bloom, and the small English village of Finch may be in big trouble. Two cottages are for sale, but something -- or s...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure

    Aunt Dimity - 21

    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 ...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse

    Aunt Dimity - 22

    It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared a week of roughing it with a curious toddler. The two...

  • Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom

    Aunt Dimity - 23

    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 sout...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold

    Aunt Dimity - 24

    In the newest installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dreary Christmas leads to hidden treasure and new friendships It's almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch -- and everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers ...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage

    Aunt Dimity - 25

    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 s...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy Atherton has published 26 books.

Nancy Atherton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage, was published in May 2022.

The first book by Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity's Death, was published in November 1992.

Yes. Nancy Atherton has 1 series.
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