OVERVIEW: Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil

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I see that I wrote up when I started to read books in the Aunt Dimity series, but it cooled into overviews the more I read. Having just read ‘Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil’ by Nancy Atherton, I can understand why and why too it has been a long time since I read a book in the series. The genre is cosy mystery with a supernatural twist. Main character Lori Shepherd has left the US to build a new life in England at the turn of the millennium, one in which aunt Dimity plays an important role. This book veers into Gothic suspense territory, when Lori is asked to go value some books at Wyrdhurst House in Northumbria, leaving behind her twin sons for the first long stretch of time. There she meets a handsome rescuer, a by-the-rules soldier, an unhappy and young new bride and a teddy bear named Major Ted (stuffed animals are a thing in this series.) If I listed the influences I picked up, it would be a spoiler, but I felt that the author was regretting some choices she’d made in earlier books. I don’t think I’m going to be in a hurry to read the next book in this series.