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In Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil, 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. On a dark and stormy night in late October, she sets out for Wyrdhurst Hall, the grim neo-Gothic castle owned by newlyweds Nicole and Jared Hollander. On the way there she encounters Adam Chase, a charming, handsome stranger who knows more than he's telling about the hall's mysterious secrets....

Feeling a touch world-weary, Lori Shepherd decides to become a volunteer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where she can spread a little good cheer. There she meets Elizabeth Beacham, a kind, retired legal secretary with no family, except a brother who has mysteriously disappeared. But after only a few visits, Miss Beacham suddenly passes away, leaving Lori to tie up the loose ends of her late friend’s life. Lori soon discovers that hidden among Miss Beacham’s belongings are clues that Lori believes her friend left for her to discover.

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.

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.

Lori Shepherd and the phantom Aunt Dimity have become one of the mystery genre’s most celebrated detective duos. In their latest adventure, a pleasant woodland stroll through the English countryside is rudely cut short by the blizzard of the century, forcing Lori to take shelter in Ladythorne Abbey - an old pile still haunted by the presence of the madwoman whose prison it once was. But the abbey’s greatest secret is the priceless jewel it conceals somewhere within its cloisters - an heirloom that hides a treacherous past that Lori’s fellow guests can’t wait to get their hands on.

Emma Porter is 40, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers.

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.

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.

Cette année, Lori attend avec impatience l'arrivée de Noël. Alors, quand le jardin du cottage se pare de son blanc manteau, Lori est comblée. Mais, car il y a malheureusement un mais, le lendemain, un mystérieux sans-abri est retrouvé à l'article de la mort sous des buissons.

Grâce à Tante Dimity, la vie de Lori Shepherd a pris des allures de conte de fées. Enfin, en apparence : les projets de Lori de passer une seconde lune de miel dans les Cotswolds viennent de tomber à l’eau et elle se retrouve à voyager avec son beau-père plutôt qu’avec son mari ! Alors, quand le vieil homme disparaît en laissant derrière lui une note bien mystérieuse, c’est à Lori de se lancer à sa recherche. Or, même guidé par le fantôme de Tante Dimity, un périple en voiture à travers toute l’Angleterre est loin d’être une mince affaire.

L’enfance de Lori Shepherd a été bercée par les histoires de Tante Dimity que lui racontait sa mère. Quelle n’est donc pas sa surprise en apprenant que Tante Dimity a non seulement existé, mais que cette dernière lui a confié une mission capitale à sa mort : compiler toutes ses histoires pour publication, en échange d'une somme considérable. Pour accomplir cette tâche, Lori doit voyager en Angleterre, jusqu’à un petit cottage des Costwold. Mais une fois là-bas, des choses très étranges surviennent dans la maison. Le fantôme de Tante Dimity semble veiller sur elle...

LE TROISIÈME TOME DE LA SÉRIE D’ENQUÊTES PLUS COSY QUE MYSTERY , BEST-SELLER DEPUIS 30 ANS AUX ÉTATS-UNIS ! Avec la naissance de ses jumeaux, Lori Shepherd est plongée jusqu'au cou dans les purées de carotte et les biberons. Heureusement, une belle nounou italienne a été appelée en renfort au cottage des Cotswolds. Car Lori doit aussi tenter de régler la guerre civile locale déclenchée par les mystérieuses fouilles d'un archéologue.

LE TOME 0 DE LA SÉRIE D’ENQUÊTES PLUS COSY QUE MYSTERY, BEST-SELLER DEPUIS 30 ANS AUX ÉTATS-UNIS !Quittée par son amant, Emma Porter décide de revenir à sa première passion : le jardinage. Rien de tel qu’une tournée des plus beaux jardins d’Angleterre en été ! Au manoir de Penford Hall, Emma rencontre un duc fantasque qui lui demande de redonner au jardin de la chapelle sa splendeur d’antan. Mais lorsque la cousine de ce dernier est retrouvée inanimée dans la propriété, l’affaire semble liée à la mort mystérieuse, cinq ans plus tôt, d’une star du rock au même endroit.