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Emma Porter hat die Nase voll. Ihr langjähriger Freund hat sie wegen einer jüngeren Frau verlassen und ihre Mutter und Freundinnen hören nicht auf, sie deswegen zu bemitleiden. Kurzentschlossen macht sie sich auf den Weg nach Südengland, um sich dort die wunderschönen Gärten anzusehen. Emma ahnt nicht, dass die geheimnisvolle Tante Dimity ihre Hände im Spiel hat, als sie ausgerechnet in Penford Hall landet, einem alten Schloss in Cornwall. Dort erwarten sie ein mysteriöses Rätsel um eine Zauberlaterne und andere mörderische Geheimnisse.

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, macht sich Lori auf die Suche nach dem Geheimnis des Fremden im Schnee... Ein gemütlicher Weihnachtskrimi mit Tante Dimity.

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 of the community. Soon, the townspeople have all but dismissed him.

An einem stürmischen und verregneten Tag macht sich Lori Shepherd auf dem Weg nach Wyrdhurst Castle, einem geheimnisvollen Landhaus im Hochmoor von Northumberland. Im Auftrag ihres ehemaligen Chefs soll sie sich die wertvolle Bibliothek genauer ansehen. Beim Durchstöbern der Privatsammlung entdeckt Lori ein Bündel mit Briefen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Diese offenbaren eine verbotene Liebesgeschichte, deren Erinnerung immer noch auf der Familie lastet. Aber damit nicht genug - Lori entdeckt auch Andeutungen auf einen verborgenen Schatz.

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 Hilfe von Tante Dimitys übersinnlichen Kräften den Frieden im Dorf wiederherstellen?

Eigentlich könnte Lori Shepherd die glücklichste Frau der Welt sein - sie hat einen wundervollen Mann geheiratet und durch das Erbe von Tante Dimity haben sich ihre Geldsorgen in Luft aufgelöst. Aber leider verbringt Bill mehr Zeit im Büro als Zuhause. Um frischen Wind in ihre Beziehung zu bringen, plant Lori einen zweiten romantischen Honeymoon in Tante Dimitys Cottage. Doch Bill sagt kurzfristig ab und Lori muss mit seinem Vater Vorlieb nehmen.

It's almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch - and everyone is sick. Although many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma and Derek Harris' annual Christmas bash, Lori Shepherd has no intention of missing it. When the winter 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 Christmas party becomes a pajama party - until a car appears in the winding driveway and promptly slides off the slick pavement and into a tree.

On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband set off for a quiet weekend without the kids. But before they go, he must pay a visit to a reclusive client. After Lori drops him off, a storm that's been brewing intensifies, and she ends up stranded in an ancient, rambling inn named for a king's ransom in smuggled goods that passed through the village in ages past. When Lori begins hearing footsteps and strange noises, Aunt Dimity reminds her that the inn is almost certainly haunted but that not all ghosts are interested in harming the living. But the longer Lori is stuck at the inn, the stranger things seem.

"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 ihrer Kindheit, wirklich gegeben?

While exploring the attic in her cottage near the small English village of Finch, Lori Shepherd makes an extraordinary discovery: a gold and silver bracelet inlaid with gleaming garnets, which she quickly learns belonged to Aunt Dimity. When Lori brings news of the garnet bracelet to Aunt Dimity, it awakens poignant memories of a doomed romance in Aunt Dimity's past. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not bring herself to do - return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor or to his rightful heir.

While her husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home where she can take care of her toddler and attend the quilting bee that her elderly neighbor is holding in the old schoolhouse. In fact, once at the schoolhouse, Lori is delighted to find herself seated next to her widowed neighbor and uses the opportunity to learn more about her life in the village of Old Cowerton.

After living in the small English village of Finch for eight years, Lori Shepherd longs for some excitement to spice up her all-too-familiar routine. So when a Renaissance festival complete with wizards, wenches, knights, and jesters sets up in town for the summer, Lori gets her wish - and more. She soon discovers a sinister stalker, a jealous saboteur, and an evil assassin behind the scenes of King Wilfred's Faire, and it's up to Lori - with Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance - to prevent the medieval revelry from ending in modern-day tragedy.

Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her "niece", Lori Shepherd. Thanks to Aunt Dimity, Lori's life has taken on fairy-tale proportions: She's financially set for life and happily married...or so she thinks. When Lori's plans for a second honeymoon to England with her workaholic husband fall through, she begrudgingly takes along her father-in-law who promptly disappears, leaving behind a mysterious note.

Lori Shepherd and her family spend Christmas in the cottage willed to her by her late Aunt Dimity, but when she discovers a stranger barely alive in the snow, she teams up with a priest and together they unveil the tragic secret that led the stranger to her door.

Last year, the otherworldly sleuth's devoted fans secured a place on the New York Times best seller list for Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree. Now Lori and Aunt Dimity are back on the list - and this time, they're on a witch-hunt.

When Lori Shepherd's husband, Bill, is summoned to a will reading at the Earl of Harrisford's resplendent Palladian home, Lori herself thinks she is just along for the ride. But this gathering of the entire Harrisford clan, all of them affected by the earl's new will, devolves into a dangerous family dispute. Burning topiaries, threatening notes, suspicious maids, and family intrigue lead Lori to seek her phantom aunt's help in identifying the culprit before he or she can torch the whole house and its guests within.

The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuring the beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque English cottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles, striving to be the perfect mother to twins! Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just in time - so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by a visiting archaeologist's excavation. With Reginald, the stuffed pink rabbit, and Edmond Terrance, the stuffed tiger in tow, Lori hunts down a missing document.

The gentle spirit's sixteenth adventure is a New York Times bestseller and as "cozy and charming as a cup of Earl Grey" (Bookpage.com). After a dizzying time Down Under, Lori Shepherd returns to Finch and finds that her wealthy father-in-law, William Willis, Sr., has just purchased a splendid ten-acre estate nearby. While William fends off local ladies intent on romance, Lori oversees the painstaking restoration of a peculiar painting found during renovations. It's nothing Lori can't handle-until moving furniture, strange sounds, and the theft of the painting prompt her to call on Aunt Dimity for help uncovering the estate's shadowy past.

Nancy Atherton 's Aunt Dimity series has charmed its way into the hearts of mystery fans everywhere, finding a larger audience with each new book. In Aunt Dimity Goes West, Atherton's vivid storytelling and knack for bringing a setting to life will have fans lassoed to their chairs. Lori Shepherd, still recovering from her most recent adventure, is taking a vacation with her family in the beautiful mountain town of Bluebird, Colorado. But there's something amiss at their seemingly perfect vacation home. Is the place cursed? Or is a sinister human hand shaping its eerie reputation?

Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she's about to inherit a sizable estate - if she can discover the secret hidden in a treasure trove of letters in Dimity's English country cottage. What begins as a fairy tale becomes a mystery - and a ghost story - in an improbably cozy setting, as Aunt Dimity's indominable spirit leads Lori on an otherworldly quest to discover how, in this life, true love can conquer all.