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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.

Dix mois après Noël, Lori n'en peut plus de tourner en rond. Alors quand Stan Finderman lui propose d'évaluer une collection de livres anciens à Tarant Hall, elle saute sur l’occasion. En explorant la bibliothèque et ses ouvrages, Lori met au jour des lettres d’amour datant de la Première Guerre mondiale. Et l’une d’elles évoque un trésor caché quelque part dans l’inquiétant manoir victorien… Guidée par Tante Dimity, Lori se lance sur la piste des mystères de Tarrant Hall – entre secrets de famille et esprits venus d’ailleurs.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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....

Lori Shepherd and her family spend Christmas in the cottage willed to her by her late Aunt Dimity, but when she discovers a stranger barely alive in the snow, she teams up with a priest and together they unveil the tragic secret that led the stranger to her door.

Everyone's favorite paranormal detective is back in Nancy Atherton's 13th Aunt Dimity mystery - but this time Lori's supernatural confidante may not be the only one who's not quite dead. Could the cloaked figure Lori's twins saw in the woods near the family's English country cottage really have been a vampire? Atherton's ever-growing legion of fans and all fans of cozy mysteries will find themselves curling up with a nice cup of garlic- er, tea - for the most spine-tingling Aunt Dimity mystery yet.

After living in the small English village of Finch for eight years, Lori Shepherd longs for some excitement to spice up her all-too-familiar routine. So when a Renaissance festival complete with wizards, wenches, knights, and jesters sets up in town for the summer, Lori gets her wish - and more. She soon discovers a sinister stalker, a jealous saboteur, and an evil assassin behind the scenes of King Wilfred's Faire, and it's up to Lori - with Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance - to prevent the medieval revelry from ending in modern-day tragedy.

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.

The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuring the beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque English cottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles, striving to be the perfect mother to twins! Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just in time - so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by a visiting archaeologist's excavation. With Reginald, the stuffed pink rabbit, and Edmond Terrance, the stuffed tiger in tow, Lori hunts down a missing document.

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.

Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her "niece", Lori Shepherd. 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.

Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she's about to inherit a sizable estate - if she can discover the secret hidden in a treasure trove of letters in Dimity's English country cottage. What begins as a fairy tale becomes a mystery - and a ghost story - in an improbably cozy setting, as Aunt Dimity's indominable spirit leads Lori on an otherworldly quest to discover how, in this life, true love can conquer all.

Mystery Writers of America grand master Phyllis A. Whitney—author of more than 70 best sellers—presides over a salon of the wittiest writers of mystery in this fifth sparkling entry in the Malice Domestic series.

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.

While exploring the attic in her cottage near the small English village of Finch, Lori Shepherd makes an extraordinary discovery: a gold and silver bracelet inlaid with gleaming garnets, which she quickly learns belonged to Aunt Dimity. When Lori brings news of the garnet bracelet to Aunt Dimity, it awakens poignant memories of a doomed romance in Aunt Dimity's past. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not bring herself to do - return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor or to his rightful heir.

Last year, the otherworldly sleuth's devoted fans secured a place on the New York Times best seller list for Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree. Now Lori and Aunt Dimity are back on the list - and this time, they're on a witch-hunt.