From the Book jacket:
When Lori Shepherd was a little girl, her mother used to tuck her into bed at night with Reginald, her stuffed rabbit, and tell her stories about the irrepressible Aunt Dimity, an intrepid woman whose outrageous adventures in faraway England never ceased to amaze her.
But Lori isn't a little girl anymore. In fact, adulthood has been particularly harsh of late. In what seemed like no time at all, Lori's mother passed away, her marriage crumbled, and she lost her job, leaving her to search not only for employment but for a decent apartment and rent money as well. Lori decided long ago that Aunt Dimity was just a character in a comforting bedtime story.
But one day down-on-her-luck Lori is summoned from the latest of her dreadful temp assignments to the mansion law offices of Willis & Willis. There, the Dickensian pair of father-and-son attorneys inform her that Aunt Dimity was indeed a real woman, and a very rich one. She has also just died and left her estate to Lori-with one catch: Lori must visit Dimity's cozy cottage in the English countryside and find a secret hidden in the trove of letters that Dimity and Lori's mother exchanged over the four decades of their friendship.
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What begins as a fairy tale in an impressive cozy setting becomes a mystery-and a ghost story Aunt Dimity's indomitable spirit leads Lori on an worldly quest that Dimity could not fulfill in her life. And for Lori, Dimity's bequest is even greater the dreamed, as she discovers that in this life, true love conquers all.
NANCY ATHERTON lives in Brooklyn, New York. Dimity's Death is her first mystery.
