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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Charming and Cozy with a Touch of Mystery and Romance,
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This review is from: Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)
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.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Series to Read and Enjoy,
This review is from: Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)
Cherish the Aunt Dimity series for its simple sweetness and nostalgic way of weaving the characters together into the adventures and the life (er, afterlife) of the ghost of Aunt Dimity. The first in this series sets off to explain much of the main character's life before encountering Dimity and the evolution of her character as she gets to know herself and her mother's friendship with theDimity. I don't want to give anything away, but if you liked Nancy Drew as a child, you might want to give this series a try as a grown-up.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
'A Little Princess' meets Stephanie Plum,
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This review is from: Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)
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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