Nancy Atherton

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http://www.aunt-dimity.com/

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Mystery & Thrillers

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Nancy Atherton is not a white-haired Englishwoman with a softly wrinkled face, a wry smile, and wise gray eyes, nor does she live in a thatched cottage behind a babbling brook in a tranquil, rural corner of the Cotswolds.

She has never taken tea with a vicar (although she drank an Orange Squash with one once) and she doesn't plan to continue writing after her allotted time on earth (though such plans are, as well all know, subject to change without notice).

If you prefer to envision her as an Englishwoman, she urges you to cling to your illusions at all costs -- she treasures carefully nurtured illusions. She also urges you to read no further.

Because the truth is that Nancy Atherton is a dark-haired American with a generally unwrinkled face,...more

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Books by Nancy Atherton

Average rating: 3.83 · 15535 ratings · 1536 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Aunt Dimity's Death (An Aunt Dimity Mystery #1) 388 avg rating — 2701 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity and the Duke (Aunt Dimity Series #2) 384 avg rating — 1267 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #6) 384 avg rating — 1104 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity's Good Deed (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #3) 383 avg rating — 1101 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity Digs In (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #4) 380 avg rating — 993 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity's Christmas (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #5) 388 avg rating — 916 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #8) 385 avg rating — 888 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity: Detective (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #7) 383 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity: Snowbound (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #9) 384 avg rating — 815 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #13) 374 avg rating — 804 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Series by Nancy Atherton

An Aunt Dimity Mystery (17 books)
by Nancy Atherton

383 avg rating — 15429 ratings

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Quotes by Nancy Atherton

“Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.”
― Nancy Atherton

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“Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.”
― Nancy Atherton

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“Jack made a pass at me, too. He thought my riding crop was alluring until I smacked him across the face with it."
"Good Grief," I said. "Is any woman safe from him?
"If I were Horace Malvern," said Emma, "I'd hide the cows.”
― Nancy Atherton

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14 votes 118%

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

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7 votes 59%

Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton

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2 votes 17%

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1 vote 08%

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