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Start with Aunt Dimity's Death and continue through all 25 books in the listed reading order.
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Start with Aunt Dimity's Death
Book 1 by Nancy Atherton • Published 1992
Struggling and newly orphaned, Lori Shepherd thinks Aunt Dimity is only a character from her mother's bedtime tales. A surprise inheritance sends her to an English cottage, where a cache of letters and a very real gho...
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Aunt Dimity reading order
Ends with Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage
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Book 1:Aunt Dimity's Death
Nancy Atherton • 1992
Struggling and newly orphaned, Lori Shepherd thinks Aunt Dimity is only a character from her mother's bedtime tales. A surprise inheritance sends her to an English cottage, where a cache of letters and a very real gho...
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Book 2:Aunt Dimity and the Duke
Nancy Atherton • 1994
After a painful breakup, computer analyst and avid gardener Emma Porter flees to England's famous gardens. A chance detour to Penford Hall draws her into a search for a legendary lantern, a rock star's old scandal and...
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Book 3:Aunt Dimity's Good Deed
Nancy Atherton • 1996
Lori plans a romantic trip to England with her workaholic husband but ends up escorting her reserved father-in-law instead. When he vanishes, leaving only a cryptic note, Lori and Aunt Dimity follow his trail through...
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Book 4:Aunt Dimity Digs In
Nancy Atherton • 1998
Exhausted by infant twins, Lori gratefully accepts help from an Italian nanny just as an archaeological dig splits the village of Finch into warring camps. When a crucial document disappears, Lori, Aunt Dimity and sev...
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Book 5:Aunt Dimity's Christmas
Nancy Atherton • 1999
Dreaming of a picture perfect holiday in Finch, Lori instead finds a half frozen stranger collapsed in her snowy garden. With a kind priest and Aunt Dimity's guidance, she traces the man's past through shelters and wa...
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Book 6:Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil
Nancy Atherton • 2000
On a storm-lashed Northumberland moor, Lori barely reaches Wyrdhurst Hall, the brooding mansion whose library she has been hired to catalogue. There she discovers World War I love letters, rumors of a cursed bride and...
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Book 7:Aunt Dimity: Detective
Nancy Atherton • 2001
When notoriously nasty Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper is found murdered, Finch reels from its first killing in a century. Nearly every villager had motive, so Lori, aided by Aunt Dimity and enigmatic instructor Nicholas,...
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Book 8:Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday
Nancy Atherton • 2003
A will reading at a grand country estate sounds like an entertaining getaway until Lori witnesses smoldering resentments among the aristocratic Elstyn clan. After a string of dangerous "accidents," she and Aunt Dimity...
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Book 9:Aunt Dimity: Snowbound
Nancy Atherton • 2004
A sudden blizzard forces Lori to seek shelter in Ladythorne Abbey, a crumbling mansion once home to a reputed madwoman. Stranded with uneasy companions, she stumbles on clues to a lost jewel and a cruel family injusti...
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Book 10:Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin
Nancy Atherton • 2005
Hoping to add purpose to her days, Lori volunteers at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary and befriends gentle patient Elizabeth Beacham. After Miss Beacham dies, Lori, a helpful neighbor and Aunt Dimity follow cryptic clues...
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Book 11:Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea
Nancy Atherton • 2006
Threatening messages aimed at Bill drive Lori and their young twins to a supposedly safe refuge, a restored castle on a remote Scottish island. Among secretive staff, washed up bones and rugged coastline, Lori must re...
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Book 12:Aunt Dimity Goes West
Nancy Atherton • 2007
Still recovering from recent scares, Lori escapes to the Colorado Rockies with her family. Their rental home in Bluebird seems perfect until eerie happenings hint at a curse. As she investigates a century old mystery...
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Book 13:Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter
Nancy Atherton • 2008
Lori's five-year-old twins insist they have seen a vampire near the village riding school. Fearing a very human predator rather than fangs, Lori teams up with horseman Kit Smith to investigate reclusive neighbors, uns...
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Book 14:Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon
Nancy Atherton • 2009
When a full scale Renaissance fair rolls into Finch, Lori welcomes the color and chaos until accidents plague the man playing King Wilfred. Juggling jesters, jousts and simmering local resentment, she and Aunt Dimity...
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Book 15:Aunt Dimity Down Under
Nancy Atherton • 2010
Beloved sisters Ruth and Louise Pym are gravely ill and beg Lori to find their estranged brother, who fled to New Zealand decades earlier. Following faint clues across dramatic landscapes, and with Aunt Dimity's suppo...
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Book 16:Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree
Nancy Atherton • 2010
Lori's dignified father-in-law buys a grand but faded estate near Finch and hires two unnervingly perfect Irish servants to help run it. When antiques vanish and a village baker's elaborate deception collides with the...
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Book 17:Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch
Nancy Atherton • 2012
Famous artist Amelia Thistle quietly moves to Finch searching for traces of a rumored seventeenth century witch she believes was her ancestor. Lori, Aunt Dimity and a band of enthusiastic villagers follow a trail of h...
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Book 18:Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince
Nancy Atherton • 2013
To entertain her restless children, Lori visits an eccentric manor turned museum, where a shy girl named Daisy tells a vivid tale of Russian royalty. When Daisy disappears and her coat resurfaces hiding a silver figur...
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Book 19:Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well
Nancy Atherton • 2014
Australian Jack McBride arrives in Finch to settle his uncle's estate, and Lori helps clear the tangle of his overgrown garden. A forgotten well seems to grant wishes, sending the village into delightful chaos. As dre...
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Book 20:Aunt Dimity and the Summer King
Nancy Atherton • 2015
Property in Finch will not sell, and rumors swirl about a ruthless developer. Lori suspects the local estate agent until she meets Arthur Hargreaves, an eccentric inventor nicknamed the Summer King. As old feuds and h...
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Book 21:Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure
Nancy Atherton • 2016
A garnet-studded bracelet hidden in her attic pulls Lori into Aunt Dimity's bittersweet past and a long-ago London romance. While she tracks down the man who once loved Dimity, village metal detecting uncovers artifac...
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Book 22:Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse
Nancy Atherton • 2017
Quiet widow Annabelle Craven shocks Lori at a village quilting bee by calmly confessing to killing her first husband. Puzzled and disturbed, Lori and her friend Bree visit Old Cowerton, where clashing stories about a...
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Book 23:Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom
Nancy Atherton • 2018
A storm strands Lori at an ancient inn on England's southeast coast while Bill tends to a client elsewhere. The King's Ransom hides smuggling tunnels, prickly staff and an enigmatic French guest. With Aunt Dimity's re...
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Book 24:Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold
Nancy Atherton • 2019
Snow and sickness turn Emma Harris's Christmas party into an impromptu sleepover for Lori and a handful of guests. Newcomer Tilly Trout discovers a hidden chapel and a cache of treasure, including a golden heart, send...
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Book 25:Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage
Nancy Atherton • 2022
Finch buzzes when reserved scholar Crispin Windle moves into romantic Pussywillows cottage, rumored to bring love to its residents. Lori and young veteran Tommy befriend him and explore nearby mill ruins, where unmark...
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Aunt Dimity FAQ
What is the best order to read the Aunt Dimity series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Aunt Dimity's Death.
How many books are in the Aunt Dimity series?
There are 25 books currently listed in the Aunt Dimity series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Aunt Dimity series?
New readers should start with Aunt Dimity's Death, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Aunt Dimity series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 1992 to 2022.