Nancy Atherton Books in Order

Finch buzzes when reserved scholar Crispin Windle moves into romantic Pussywillows cottage, rumored to bring love to its residents. Lori and young veteran Tommy befriend him and explore nearby mill ruins, where unmarked children's graves reveal a grim chapter of village history and offer Crispin a path toward belonging.

Snow and sickness turn Emma Harris's Christmas party into an impromptu sleepover for Lori and a handful of guests. Newcomer Tilly Trout discovers a hidden chapel and a cache of treasure, including a golden heart, sending Lori on a gentle hunt through history to return gifts and heal old wounds.

A storm strands Lori at an ancient inn on England's southeast coast while Bill tends to a client elsewhere. The King's Ransom hides smuggling tunnels, prickly staff and an enigmatic French guest. With Aunt Dimity's reassurance, Lori investigates eerie noises to learn who is really haunting the place.

Quiet widow Annabelle Craven shocks Lori at a village quilting bee by calmly confessing to killing her first husband. Puzzled and disturbed, Lori and her friend Bree visit Old Cowerton, where clashing stories about a so called widow's curse force them to confront gossip, grief and truth.

A garnet-studded bracelet hidden in her attic pulls Lori into Aunt Dimity's bittersweet past and a long-ago London romance. While she tracks down the man who once loved Dimity, village metal detecting uncovers artifacts that may link a modern treasure find to that same stolen jewelry.

Property in Finch will not sell, and rumors swirl about a ruthless developer. Lori suspects the local estate agent until she meets Arthur Hargreaves, an eccentric inventor nicknamed the Summer King. As old feuds and hidden maps surface, she must decide whether Arthur threatens or protects her village.

Australian Jack McBride arrives in Finch to settle his uncle's estate, and Lori helps clear the tangle of his overgrown garden. A forgotten well seems to grant wishes, sending the village into delightful chaos. As dreams collide, Lori and Aunt Dimity search for the human trick behind the magic.

To entertain her restless children, Lori visits an eccentric manor turned museum, where a shy girl named Daisy tells a vivid tale of Russian royalty. When Daisy disappears and her coat resurfaces hiding a silver figurine, Lori uncovers a mystery that reaches back to the Russian Revolution.

Famous artist Amelia Thistle quietly moves to Finch searching for traces of a rumored seventeenth century witch she believes was her ancestor. Lori, Aunt Dimity and a band of enthusiastic villagers follow a trail of hidden pages through cottages and church archives while shielding Amelia from intrusive fans.

Beloved sisters Ruth and Louise Pym are gravely ill and beg Lori to find their estranged brother, who fled to New Zealand decades earlier. Following faint clues across dramatic landscapes, and with Aunt Dimity's support, Lori tries to mend a family broken by pride, exile and loss.

Lori's dignified father-in-law buys a grand but faded estate near Finch and hires two unnervingly perfect Irish servants to help run it. When antiques vanish and a village baker's elaborate deception collides with the Donovans' secrets, Lori turns to Aunt Dimity to untangle class, romance and theft.

When a full scale Renaissance fair rolls into Finch, Lori welcomes the color and chaos until accidents plague the man playing King Wilfred. Juggling jesters, jousts and simmering local resentment, she and Aunt Dimity must separate pageantry from real peril before the revels end in tragedy.

Lori's five-year-old twins insist they have seen a vampire near the village riding school. Fearing a very human predator rather than fangs, Lori teams up with horseman Kit Smith to investigate reclusive neighbors, unsettling legends and one peculiar camper, with Aunt Dimity steadying her nerves.

Still recovering from recent scares, Lori escapes to the Colorado Rockies with her family. Their rental home in Bluebird seems perfect until eerie happenings hint at a curse. As she investigates a century old mystery in the nearby ghost town, Aunt Dimity nudges her toward surprising Western friendships.

Threatening messages aimed at Bill drive Lori and their young twins to a supposedly safe refuge, a restored castle on a remote Scottish island. Among secretive staff, washed up bones and rugged coastline, Lori must rely on her instincts and Aunt Dimity's inked advice to unmask a relentless stalker.

Hoping to add purpose to her days, Lori volunteers at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary and befriends gentle patient Elizabeth Beacham. After Miss Beacham dies, Lori, a helpful neighbor and Aunt Dimity follow cryptic clues hidden in the woman's flat to reunite a scattered family and honor her last wish.

A sudden blizzard forces Lori to seek shelter in Ladythorne Abbey, a crumbling mansion once home to a reputed madwoman. Stranded with uneasy companions, she stumbles on clues to a lost jewel and a cruel family injustice that only Aunt Dimity can help her peacefully resolve.

A will reading at a grand country estate sounds like an entertaining getaway until Lori witnesses smoldering resentments among the aristocratic Elstyn clan. After a string of dangerous "accidents," she and Aunt Dimity race to unmask a saboteur before family drama turns truly deadly.

When notoriously nasty Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper is found murdered, Finch reels from its first killing in a century. Nearly every villager had motive, so Lori, aided by Aunt Dimity and enigmatic instructor Nicholas, must probe gossip, grudges and long kept secrets to uncover the quiet killer.

On a storm-lashed Northumberland moor, Lori barely reaches Wyrdhurst Hall, the brooding mansion whose library she has been hired to catalogue. There she discovers World War I love letters, rumors of a cursed bride and a hidden gem that only Aunt Dimity's counsel can help her set right.

Dreaming of a picture perfect holiday in Finch, Lori instead finds a half frozen stranger collapsed in her snowy garden. With a kind priest and Aunt Dimity's guidance, she traces the man's past through shelters and wartime airfields, uncovering a heartbreaking story and a truer meaning of Christmas.

Exhausted by infant twins, Lori gratefully accepts help from an Italian nanny just as an archaeological dig splits the village of Finch into warring camps. When a crucial document disappears, Lori, Aunt Dimity and several stuffed animals must untangle hoaxes, hurt feelings and hidden history.

Lori plans a romantic trip to England with her workaholic husband but ends up escorting her reserved father-in-law instead. When he vanishes, leaving only a cryptic note, Lori and Aunt Dimity follow his trail through feuding Willis relatives, old legal secrets and surprising temptations.

After a painful breakup, computer analyst and avid gardener Emma Porter flees to England's famous gardens. A chance detour to Penford Hall draws her into a search for a legendary lantern, a rock star's old scandal and, with Aunt Dimity's help, an unexpected second chance at love.

Struggling and newly orphaned, Lori Shepherd thinks Aunt Dimity is only a character from her mother's bedtime tales. A surprise inheritance sends her to an English cottage, where a cache of letters and a very real ghost reveal buried wartime secrets and a new future.