Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea (Aunt Dimity Series #11) » (~)

Nancy Atherton is the author of twelve other Aunt Dimity mysteries, many of them bestsellers. The first book in the series, Aunt Dimity's Death, was voted "One of the Century's 100 Favorite Mysteries" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.

The eleventh cozy mystery featuring everyone's favorite phantom-detective

Nancy 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.

Publishers Weekly

In Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea, her soothing 11th cozy starring U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd (after 2005's Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin), Lori and her twin sons, Will and Rob, retreat to the scenic Scottish isle of Erinskil after Lori's lawyer husband, Bill Willis, receives death threats via e-mail. The ideal refuge, however, soon becomes a hotbed of trouble, and Lori's forced to depend more on her own instincts than the advice of the ghostly Aunt Dimity, who communicates through journal entries, to protect her sons' lives as well as her own. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.