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Nancy Atherton

Born: 1955 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Atherton was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived in rural Illinois until 2012.

Biography: Atherton is a writer and the author of the ''Aunt Dimity'' mystery novel series. Each book contains a recipe, which is integral to the story. She now lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


Awards:
  • Voted One of the Century's 100 Favorite Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: nancya@csprings.com
Website: http://www.aunt-dimity.com
Nancy Atherton on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=nancy+atherton


Selected Titles

  Aunt Dimity - detective
ISBN: 9781472216410 OCLC: 874932038

  Aunt Dimity - snowbound
ISBN: 9781472216434 OCLC: 874932063

  Aunt Dimity :
ISBN: 0143114794 OCLC: 166359816

Viking, New York : 2008.

Concerned for her preschooler twins' safety in the face of tales about a pale, blood-stained figure lurking in the nearby woods, Lori consults with her not-quite-departed Aunt Dimity and stumbles upon the truth about a forty-year-old murder.

  Aunt Dimity :
ISBN: 9781472216472 OCLC: 893656374

Aunt Dimity and the buried treasure
ISBN: 9781101981313 OCLC: 966929676

Nancy Atherton's twenty-first cozy mystery in the beloved, Nationally Bestselling Aunt Dimity series. 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 Dimity, it awakens poignant memories of a doomed romance in Aunt Dimity s youth in London after the War. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not: return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor setting Lori off on an adventure through London and through history to put a piece of Aunt Dimity s past to rest. In the meantime, a new family has moved to Finch. The villagers are thrilled because their new neighbors are avid metal detectorists. Metal detectors soon become all the rage in Finch and the villagers unearth a lot of rubbish (some of it quite embarrassing) before one of them stumbles upon a trinket that could hold the key to the origin of Aunt Dimity s bracelet. Is the bracelet a priceless and protected national treasure? Was Aunt Dimity s lovesick suitor a common thief? If so, how will Lori break the news to Aunt Dimity? And what will she do with the bracelet? As Lori searches for answers, she discovers an unexpected link between the buried treasure in the village and the treasure buried in Aunt Dimity s heart. Watch out for Nancy Atherton's latest, Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse, coming in May 2017 from Viking! From the Hardcover edition.

  Aunt Dimity and the buried treasure /
ISBN: 1101981296 OCLC: 918284146

"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 Dimity, it awakens poignant memories of a doomed romance in Aunt Dimity's youth. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not: return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor--setting Lori off on an adventure through London--and through history--to put a piece of Aunt Dimity's past to rest."--Amazon.com.

  Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea
ISBN: 9781472216458 OCLC: 893656096

  Aunt Dimity and the deep blue sea /
ISBN: 0143038303 OCLC: 81454223

Lori Shepherd and her twin children flee to a Scottish island after her attorney husband receives death threats. She finds trouble there, however, as she suspects that the islanders' wealth comes from some illegal activity. She is aided once again by Aunt Dimity, her friend-ghost-sleuth.

Aunt Dimity and the duke /
ISBN: 0140178414 OCLC: 30036529

Viking, New York : 1994.

A Boston computer expert and amateur gardener, Emma Porter, lands a job in England on a duke's estate where a murder occurred. Together with another employee, an artist restoring a chapel, she proceeds to investigate and finds love.

  Aunt Dimity and the family tree
ISBN: 9781472216502 OCLC: 874932066

  Aunt Dimity and the family tree /
ISBN: 0143120212 OCLC: 780319815

Penguin, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : 2012, ©2011.

Lori Shepherd's debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. But once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth--moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors--Lori calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance.

  Aunt Dimity and the lost prince
ISBN: 9781721344666 OCLC: 1081035064

With Dimity's otherworldly guidance, Lori's search for a figurine's true owner leads her to a web of secrets stretching back to the Russian Revolution.

Aunt Dimity and the lost prince /
ISBN: 0670026689 OCLC: 829239201

When a silver sleigh recently stolen from a local museum turns up in her thrift shop, paranormal sleuth Lori Shepherd is surprised by the curator's lack of interest in the theft, a situation that prompts Lori to turn to Aunt Dimity for otherworldly advice on how to track down the sleigh's true owner.

  Aunt Dimity and the next of kin
ISBN: 9781472216441 OCLC: 874932027

Aunt Dimity and the next of kin /
ISBN: 0143036548 OCLC: 64385096

Penguin, New York : 2006.

Lori Shepherd, feeling a touch world-weary, decides to become a volunteer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where she can spread a little good cheer in the community. There she meets Elizabeth Beacham, a kind, retired legal secretary with no family except a brother who has mysteriously disappeared. Lori is saddened when Miss Beacham passes away suddenly after only a few visits. But when she receives an envelope containing a set of keys and a letter Miss Beacham wrote to her just a few days before her death, it becomes clear that there was much more to the gentle invalid than met the eye. Notices start arriving around the village of the large bequests made before her death. And Lori finds that Miss Beacham's flat is filled with priceless antiques--an inheritance too precious to remain unclaimed. Armed with a few clues and Aunt Dimity's help, Lori begins to unearth Miss Beacham's secrets and, ultimately, the surprising truth about her next-of-kin.

  Aunt Dimity and the Summer King
ISBN: 9781633797963 OCLC: 902670510

Overseeing her baby, a family wedding, and her own approaching birthday celebration amid rumors that a developer has unwanted plans for Finch village, Lori bonds with an inventor only to discover his true intentions.

  Aunt Dimity and the Summer King /
ISBN: 0670026700 OCLC: 881888150

Overseeing her baby, a family wedding and her own approaching 40th birthday celebration amid rumors that a developer has unwanted plans for Finch village, Lori bonds with a warmhearted inventor only to discover his true intentions.

Aunt Dimity and the village witch
ISBN: 9781472216519 OCLC: 934808671

Viking Adult, New York : 2012.

Nancy Atherton's seventeenth cozy mystery featuring the beloved Aunt Dimity-the original paranormal detective 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-stalk fan base. In order to keep peace in Finch, Lori must help Amelia conceal her identity. Amelia, meanwhile, sets about working on the riddle that brought her to town in the first place. A fragment of a family diary hints that one of Amelia's ancestors might have been Mistress Meg, the Mad Witch of Finch. Following the clue, Lori hunts through Finch's darkest and most secret corners, all the while dodging nosy neighbors and Amelia's frantic fans. With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, Lori inches closer to the true story of Mistress Meg-and Amelia. Returning to the charming world of Finch, Nancy Atherton's latest novel is sure to delight faithful Aunt Dimity readers, Anglophiles, and cozy mystery fans. --

Aunt Dimity and the village witch /
ISBN: 0670023418 OCLC: 733230575

"Nancy Atherton's seventeenth cozy mystery featuring the beloved Aunt Dimity-the original paranormal detective 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-stalk fan base. In order to keep peace in Finch, Lori must help Amelia conceal her identity. Amelia, meanwhile, sets about working on the riddle that brought her to town in the first place. A fragment of a family diary hints that one of Amelia's ancestors might have been Mistress Meg, the Mad Witch of Finch. Following the clue, Lori hunts through Finch's darkest and most secret corners, all the while dodging nosy neighbors and Amelia's frantic fans. With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, Lori inches closer to the true story of Mistress Meg-and Amelia. Returning to the charming world of Finch, Nancy Atherton's latest novel is sure to delight faithful Aunt Dimity readers, Anglophiles, and cozy mystery fans."--

  Aunt Dimity and the wishing well
ISBN: 9781629234649 OCLC: 877873397

When a strapping young Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle's affairs, heads turn in the sleepy English village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch. After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true.

  Aunt Dimity and the wishing well /
ISBN: 0670026697 OCLC: 852221634

"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 village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch. After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true. Word spreads, and the villagers turn out in droves to make wishes of their own. But as they soon learn, one person's wish is another person's worst nightmare and the village is thrown into chaos. As more and more wishes come true, Lori resolves to find out what's really going on. Is handsome Jack somehow tricking his neighbors? Or are they fooling themselves? With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, Lori discovers that the truth is even more marvelous than a magical wishing well"--

  Aunt Dimity beats the devil
ISBN: 9781978603745 OCLC: 1041125352

Lori's twins are now toddlers, walking and talking enough to drive her nearly stir crazy. So she jumps at the offer of a break--a trip to evaluate a rare-book collection in a remote and misty corner of Northumberland.

  Aunt Dimity beats the Devil /
ISBN: 0141002190 OCLC: 48192539

With rain crashing down on her Range Rover, as it climbs up a steep embankment on the Northumberland moors, Lori Shepherd is beginning to doubt the wisdom of her decision to evaluate a rare book collection at Wyrdhurst Hall. The grim, neo-gothic hall that greets her upon arrival is full of surprises-including a charming, secretive stranger, and a cache of World War I letters that tell a tale of doomed love and hint at a hidden treasure. It will take all of Dimity's supernatural skills to help Lori solve the puzzle and restore peace to a family haunted by its tragic past.

Aunt Dimity digs in
ISBN: 9781410495051 OCLC: 959965430

Lori Shepherd, freed from the restrictions of motherhood by the arrival of the beautiful nanny Francesca Sciaparelli, must call upon her ghostly Aunt Dimity for help when she becomes caught in the middle of a controversy that threatens to destroy the village as well as her nanny's budding romance with archaeologist Adrian Culver.

  Aunt Dimity digs in /
ISBN: 014027569x OCLC: 37509894

Viking, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : 1998.

A cozy mystery in an English village where a row has erupted over an archeological find. Some say it is genuine, others that it is a fake. Aided by the ghost of Aunt Dimity, sleuth Lori Shepherd investigates.

  Aunt Dimity down under
ISBN: 9781472216496 OCLC: 874932065

Aunt Dimity down under /
ISBN: 014311865X OCLC: 430051485

Viking, New York : 2010.

With the help of a charming Kiwi and the otherworldly guidance of Aunt Dimity, Lori Shepherd goes Down Under to search for the Pym sisters' missing brother, unraveling a web of secrets that has haunted the Pym family for generations.

  Aunt Dimity goes west
ISBN: 9781472216465 OCLC: 874931913

Aunt Dimity goes West /
ISBN: 0143112910 OCLC: 71241999

Viking, New York : 2007.

Arriving in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado only to find herself enmeshed in a missing-persons case, Lori Shepherd becomes suspicious about a hundred-year-old mystery and a charming man who seems to know more than he will admit.

  Aunt Dimity slays the dragon
ISBN: 9781472216489 OCLC: 874932064

Aunt Dimity slays the dragon /
ISBN: 0670020508 OCLC: 233548665

Viking, New York, N.Y. : 2009.

U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd and Aunt Dimity investigate sabotage (and possible regicide) at a local Renaissance faire held in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Finch.

  Aunt Dimity takes a holiday
ISBN: 9781472216427 OCLC: 872741284

Aunt Dimity takes a holiday /
ISBN: 014200393x OCLC: 50347950

Viking, New York : 2003.

Accompanying her husband to the Earl of Harrisford's will reading, Lori Shepherd witnesses the Harrisford family erupt in a heated dispute involving burning topiaries, threatening notes, and suspicious maids.

  Aunt Dimity's Christmas
ISBN: 9781472216397 OCLC: 874931912

  Aunt Dimity's Christmas /
ISBN: 0140296301 OCLC: 41628225

Lady sleuth Lori Shepard, an American who is living in an English village, finds a collapsed stranger on her doorstep. She joins a handsome priest to search for the man's identity, a search which takes her from a homeless shelter to an insane asylum. By the author of Aunt Dimity Digs In.

  Aunt Dimity's death
ISBN: 9781472216359 OCLC: 934815215

Viking, New York : 1992.

Aunt Dimity's death /
ISBN: 1568655258 OCLC: 29488967

Atherton's first mystery combines a strong sense of traditional English fare with an insistent gothic spirit. Suffering from her recent divorce, her mother's death, and an erratic income, Lori Shepherd receives notice from a prestigious Boston law firm that she must travel to England in order to meet the requirements of a will. While visiting her benefactor's "haunted" cottage with lawyer friend Bill, she uncovers important clues relating to a World War II mystery. Lightweight, nicely written material complete with a few heart palpitations.

  Aunt Dimity's good deed
ISBN: 9781978603806 OCLC: 1035556670

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.

Aunt Dimity's good deed /
ISBN: 0140258817 OCLC: 34583993

Viking, New York : 1996.

A tale of marital adventure and family mystery featuring Lori Shepherd, the wife of a Boston lawyer. On a visit to England to acquaint herself with her in-laws she discovers scandal and a handsome cousin. Through it all she is guided by the ghost of an aunt. A cozy charmer.

Aunt Dimity, detective /
ISBN: 0142001546 OCLC: 46929171

Viking, New York : 2001.

When Lori and her family return from a three-month visit to the States, she finds the town atwitter over the death of Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper. Prunella sowed the seeds of discord at every turn, and Lori is intrigued enough --and upset enough by the ugliness directed at several of her closest friends--to try to solve the murder.

Aunt Dimity, snowbound /
ISBN: 0143034588 OCLC: 53097087

Viking, New York : 2004.

After being caught in a blizzard, Lori Shepherd takes refuge in Ladythorne Abbey, the former home of the late Lucasta DeClerke, where she uncovers a plot to steal a priceless DeClerke family heirloom.

Introducing Aunt Dimity, paranormal detective /
ISBN: 0143116061 OCLC: 318411386

Penguin Books, New York : 2009.

In Aunt Dimity's Death, Aunt Dimity's American niece, Lori Shepherd, had long thought her mother's childhood tales of Aunt Dimity were merely comforting bedtime stories. But when a pair of lawyers informs her that her mysterious aunt has just died and made the down-on-her-luck Lori a rich woman, she finds a reason to believe. Aunt Dimity and the Duke finds the benevolent spirit helping Emma Porter -- forty, fat, and frumpy -- tame a Duke's overgrown garden and discover romance along the way.

 

 

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