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. Inspired and guided by the ghost of Aunt Dimity and her inimitable blue journal, Lori?s search for the elderly gentleman turns into a harrowing mission to uncover a centuries-old family secret?complicated by mistaken identities, falsified deeds, family feuds, and Lori?s unseemly attraction to her husband?s beguiling English cousin. In a delightful chase that takes her all over the English countryside, Lori discovers the true meaning of marital bliss, and Nancy...
I did it! My actual reading had slowed down and there wasn't a ton in this one to encourage me. It's Aunt Dimity so it was a pleasant enough read and the fact it took me 5 months to finish may be why I didn't feel super connected to the plot.
