Aunt Dimity and the deep blue sea

By Nancy Atherton

Subjects: Women detectives, Women detectives in fiction, Dimity, aunt (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Scotland, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Open Library Staff Picks, Aunt Dimity (Fictitious character)

Description: The eleventh cozy mystery featuring everyone's favorite phantom-detectiveNancy Atherton 's Aunt Dimity novels have enchanted thousands of readers, and this new addition to the series is likely to broaden the spell. A series of death threats sends Lori Shepard to a remote island off the Scottish coast and to a fabulous castle restored by an eccentric friend of her husband's. But she finds herself drawn into an elaborate whodunit that may involve smuggling—or worse. Why has a human skull washed up on the beach? Is a desolate island really the best place to hide from a murderer? As Lori draws once more on Aunt Dimity's supernatural aid, Atherton whips equal measures of whimsy and suspense into an irresistible confection.