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Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin (An Aunt Dimity Mystery #10)
The next page-turning installment in the phantom-detective mystery series that has won the hearts of cozy mystery fans everywhere
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 w...more
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 w...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
February 7th 2006
by Penguin (Non-Classics)
(first published 2005)
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I love the Aunt Dimity books by Nancy Atherton. They are gentle stories, with humor and just enough puzzle to keep me reading. I haven't been able to find all of them at my library and I've been reading them out of order. But I don't think it matters. Aunt Dimity is actually a spirit who communicates to her adopted niece, Lori, through an old journal. Lori is an American who inherited Dimity's cottage (and fortune) in the Cotswolds and lives there with her American lawyer husband and their t...more
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I enjoyed Lori's adventure as she probes into the seemingly mundane and obscure life of the now deceased Elizabeth Beacham as she searches for Ms. Beacham's next of kin--a brother who mysteriously disappeared from Ms. Beacham's life. This book illustrated that there is so much more to so many people than we ever realize, or know, and made me appreciate the humble and quiet way in which Ms. Beacham went about her life helping others, avoiding the limelight and certainly not seeking after the prai...more
Lori Shepard collects people. As Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin opens, Lori has begun a new project, inspired by her friend Lucinda Willoughby, a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary. There are too many patients with no one to visit them; what better way for Lori to add to her collection than to become Radcliffe Infirmary's first freelance visitor?
Within weeks of taking on this task Lori meets Elizabeth Beacham, unmarried, terminally ill, and the best listener Lori's ever met. R...more
Within weeks of taking on this task Lori meets Elizabeth Beacham, unmarried, terminally ill, and the best listener Lori's ever met. R...more
Laurie meets Elizabeth Beacham while volunteering at the hospital and quickly makes friends and has wonderful conversations with her. It appears that Elizabeth has no other visiters, but she had moved to Oxford to be near a brother. Miss Beacham dies, and soon Lori finds she has made some very generous bequests to people Lori has told her about. Then Lori gets a letter from the lawyer telling her to go to Miss Beacham's apartment and choose something for herself. Lori finds the apartment is ...more
I've been reading cozy mysteries as research since I have a couple series I'm writing. Unfortunately, I'm finding that most are rather disappointing. They aren't well written, the characters are pretty two dimensional, the mysteries are transparent and so on.
This one was a pleasant surprise. Lori Shepherd has inherited a house in England from her late mother's best friend, "Aunt" Dimity. She found out when she took possession of the house that Aunt Dimity can still co...more
This one was a pleasant surprise. Lori Shepherd has inherited a house in England from her late mother's best friend, "Aunt" Dimity. She found out when she took possession of the house that Aunt Dimity can still co...more
Finally, an Aunt Dimity story where we don't have to be embarrassed about Lori's behavior...at least as it regards attractive men. (Yep, she is stubborn and fly-off-the-handle-ish, but there's something understandable about Lori's moral outrage in this story.)
I have to say, I did miss the Finch characters, and even Bill and Dimity played awfully minor roles, but this was a nice, solid story for a cozy, snowy afternoon.
I have to say, I did miss the Finch characters, and even Bill and Dimity played awfully minor roles, but this was a nice, solid story for a cozy, snowy afternoon.
This is one of my reliable English mysteries. The Aunt Dimity series is rarely the classic murder mystery, but a quick enjoyable read none-the-less. I like living vicariously through Lori with her lack of financial worry...adoring husband...live-in nanny...and cozy cottage on a lot of land. (Although I make myself feel better knowing that I don't think she spends enough time with her twin boys because of the whole 24 hr nanny thing while she's off on her adventures).
The story was fair, but the author intersperses boring details about her family and domestic life which I find boring and annoying. At least I managed to finish the book, drawn on by the hook of the mystery.
I had hoped that Atherton's cozy mysteries might entertain me as much as Dorothy Gilman's "Mrs. Pollifax" cozy mysteries did, but, alas, Gilman is a hard act to follow.
I had hoped that Atherton's cozy mysteries might entertain me as much as Dorothy Gilman's "Mrs. Pollifax" cozy mysteries did, but, alas, Gilman is a hard act to follow.
This adventure of Lori's sees her befriend a lady in hospital who is dying of cancer. Following the death of Miss Beacham, Lori receives an envelope containing a set of keys and a letter that Miss Beacham wrote just days before her death.
Miss Beacham was more than just an invalid, as Lori discovers.
Miss Beacham was more than just an invalid, as Lori discovers.
I didn't even make it past the first chapter. Not the book's fault, this is entirely me. I used to love armchair mysteries, but I guess I am just not patient enough anymore. I need action and lots of plot, this just bored me from the start.
Finally found out what genre this series is - "cozy!" It says so right on the back cover. No wonder I like this series so much. Some of the mysteries are more about figuring out a family secret rather than a murder. Just my cup of tea.
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what a fun and sweet story. it's #10 in the series, the first I've read and I will now go back and read all but the first. it's not Maisie Dobbs but very enjoyable just the same, and it takes place in the UK!
I love stories with a little mystery, a mildly twisty plot, nice people and evil people, and the nice people win in the end. Although many writers, including Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and other eminent names, have used this formula, sometimes its nice to read a "nice, little book." This series is like that, and this one is, I think, my favorite of the series so far. I won't ruin it for you. It's safe for everyone, but small children might not understand some of the nuances. Be...more
Had fun with this one - all around Oxford area. Another lesson in Never Assume and that Appearances Are Deceptive. The twins embark on careers with ponies.
Charming, quick, light-hearted read with enough mystery to keep you turning the pages. For the days you only want to 'saunter' through literature!
I like this book better than most of the preceding ones. For once it wasn't all about our heroine fancying another man in spite of the fact that she dearly loves her husband.
I love these books...teach gentle behind the scenes acts of kindness in a way real people can make a difference. Set in a tiny English town - fiction and imagination of a simpler way to live :-)
A perfect cozy read. Sit back and enjoy the story. This is what this edition of aunt dimity is all about.
I got distracted and forgot about this series, but am happy to pick it up again for some enjoyable summer reading. It's always fun to see what she's up to!
such a nice mystery to read, nothing truly sinister happens but enough twists to keep things interesting.
A great British cozy, good story line with no violence, sex or unpleasant characters.
Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin by Nancy Atherton (2005)
a pretty conundrum, fast-paced fluff
pure fluff, but clean
precious
this was the best Aunt Dimity so far - they're all good, but it seems like she gets better with each book!
I liked this mystery of the series better than some of the others for multiple reason. First, there are connections with characters met in the earlier books that are continued 9especially the Oxford connections). Second, Lori is in the role of matchmaker in this novel insteaad of being constantly tempted to cheat on ehr husband. Both of these features add to the flesing out of the world in these books, and the maincharacter's growth as a person.
I love these books! I talk about Aunt Dimity here
http://804-notassigned.blogspot.com/2011...
http://804-notassigned.blogspot.com/2011...
Meh. My mom reads this series (and no, I was not named after these books) and I've tried to read them before without finishing. It took me a while to decide to finish it because I find the protagonist to be extremely annoying. It was not really good but I can see myself reading more of these books in the future for the simple fact my mother has them all and it's not taxing reading.
This one was really good! It reminded me more of Aunt Dimity and the Duke. Also, I finally found where I left off in this series, so no more re-reads!
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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 (tho...more
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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 (tho...more
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