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Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter
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- Author: Nancy Atherton
- Publisher: Viking Adult
- Release Date: February 2008
- ISBN-10: 0670018546
- ISBN-13: 9780670018543
- List Price: $22.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThe original paranormal detective returns in the latest installment of a beloved mystery series |
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Another great story!
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Another great read about Aunt Dimity! I like these books, they are fun and easy to read.
Long kept secrets, lies and romances
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The Willis boys have started kindergarten and totally enjoying themselves, their mother though may not survive the first term. Lori fears the worst about 'sending her babies out into the world' and when she and husband Bill are summoned into the headmistress' office for a conference Lori expects bad news. When the boys are accused of scaring their fellow classmates by telling terrifying lies Lori and Bill defend their sons by explaining that the boys are only relating events that truly did happen, they had been kidnapped by a stalker (AUNT DIMITY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA) and there had been mysterious voices under their beds (AUNT DIMITY GOES WEST) but to the best of Lori's and Bill's knowledge the boys had not seen a vampire while out riding. When the boys insist that they had seen someone who looked like a vampire watching them while they rode Lori feared a pedophile or another stalker, if not an actual vampire. While Bill was called away on business Lori, accompanied by her friend Kit Smith, set out to investigate the twins story. Their investigations lead them into the neighboring valley and into Kit's own past before the mysteries were solved.
The AUNT DIMITY series is an interesting mix of genres, including cozy mystery/paranormal/romance, various novels emphasize of one genre than another but through out the series Aunt Dimity offers guidance from beyond the grave to aid ill-fated lovers. Lori Shepherd is featured in all but one of the novels. She is an American, living in Aunt Dimity's former home in the Cotswold village of Finch, with her husband Bill, their twin sons and an ever growing circle of friends. As in the cozy mystery genre the attraction to this series lies with the ongoing stories of the recurring characters. The author has established a large and charming cast of characters but she has become inconsistent with their histories. For example when Kit Smith was first introduced he was thirty and Nell was fifteen but in this story, set approximately three years in the future Nell is now eighteen but Kit is supposedly thirty six. One happy change to the characters though, is that Lori no longer seems to chase after everything in trousers.
Overall this is an enjoyable series, one that is just the thing for curling up with for a few hours of pleasant reading. Fans of the series will not want to miss any opportunity to see what Aunt Dimity's friends are up to but those new to the series will want to begin at the beginning and read these charming stories in order. The overall story arc of the series is quite pronounced, skipping a book or two will leave the reader at a bit of a loss.
Frothy, cozy and undead
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The titular Aunt Dimity may be technically undead (a sort of resident ghostie) but that's no preparation for an encounter with a vampire.
Well, unsurprisingly there's something of a problem with that in "Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter," the thirteenth volume of the cozy, endearingly offbeat mystery series. The actual mystery is scattered all over the board in bits and pieces, but the romantic troubles, warm comedic moments, and cozy English-countryside atmosphere really make this little mystery a frothy charmer. Now if only I knew why guys actually like Nell...
Lori is having a rough time dealing with her sons' entry into school, and things get even rougher when the boys admit that they saw a VAMPIRE during their riding lessons (specifically, "Rendor the Destroyer of Souls"). Lori becomes obsessed with the possibility of some weirdo hanging around there, and with the blessing of Aunt Dimity, she and a very skeptical Kit go prowling for clues. They find them -- a shred of red silk and a bunch of pointy-toed bootprints. It probably wasn't a vampire, but someone WAS there.
Adding to the mystery is a strange, friendly man who's just returned from Australia, and an old lady who seriously insists that the DuCarals -- a reclusive nouveau riche family -- are really vampiric cousins of Dracula. Yes, that Dracula -- the old bat thinks that Stoker's story was true.
While Lori is seriously spooked by all this, she isn't quite willing to believe that there really IS a vampire -- she's more inclined to think that the DuCarals are hiding a mad heir who THINKS he's a vampire. But it seens the DuCarals do have a number of mysteries connected to them -- to an apparent murder that happened many years ago, and to secret scandals that nobody in the village is willing to reveal.
It's pretty much impossible to resist picking up a book with a title like "Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter," if nothing else to see what the plot is about. I was personally expecting some kind of spoof on the current trends of urban fantasy, and stuff like that. Fortunately this is less urban fantasy than a modern version of an English cozy mystery, complete with eccentric locals, small villages, mildly decayed manor-houses, tea and a lot of cottages.
While Atherton's mystery is not terribly intricate, she does do a good job scattering the clues of a long-dead mystery, and linking them up to minor mysteries of the present. She also slathers it in plenty of humour ("To my way of thinking, there wasn't much difference between doing battle with a vampiric psycho pervert and riding a horse") and drapes it in the rain-washed, muddy, ye-olde flavour of an English country village. Not to mention some spookiness when Lori visits the local Crazy Old Crone and subsequently gets all spooked out by the DuCaral attic.
And there's the a mildly bittersweet subplot, with Lori trying to figure out why Kit is so romantically introverted, even claiming that he'll never marry anyone because he's meant to be alone. The biggest problem: the continuing preoccupation with Nell, the local Nefertiti who is so gorgeous that hot wealthy young men flock to her from all over continental Europe. Problem is, Atherton never shows us her supposedly perfect personality, so it's hard to care that Kit keeps spurning her.
Lori is a neurotically sweet protagonist, with a dogged attitude towards detecting -- and her past traumatic cases serve as nice backstory. Although she's a wee bit excitable to really catch onto the most logical scenarios, she's certainly determined to figure out what's going on. The more logical brain comes from Kit, the "tortured saint" who helps Lori piece together the various clues -- some of which turn out to have a surprising connection to him. That part certainly came as a surprise.
While not what the title would imply, "Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter" gives us plenty of Lori looking for Rendor the Destroyer of Souls, frothy little "cozy" mysteries, and some suitably plot twists. A fun little read.
i love the series but....
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kit is too old for nell.
nell is not given a personality, has she ever even spoken to lori for more than 1 minute? there is no depth to this character. all we know is that she is breathtakingly beautiful. that's not enough.
lori barely spends any time with her beloved twins, leaving the child rearing to the exhausted nanny whilst she traipses around the english countryside trying to validate her existence.
other than those minor quibbles, i do love the series, love the premise, and love the mysteries. it is a very enjoyable way to pass the time.
Aunt Dimity series is the BEST!
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Do you believe in vampires? Well, Lori's twins think they saw one up on the hill and now she's frantic to find out if it's true! She and her friend Kit investigate the history of some strange neighbors who just might be hiding someone up in their attic. As they get to know more about the past, they meet numerous people that all were involved in a mysterious event that occulted more that forty years ago. When the story of that day finally comes out, no one realizes how close to home someone will be affected.
I really enjoyed this book. The story grabs you from the start and you know another good adventure is ahead for Lori. The author adds every day life events and mixes in some mystery, that makes you want to keep reading to the very end to solve it!
Nancy Atherton has done it again with her thirteenth book in the `Aunt Dimity' series. I never get tired of this series about Lori Shephard and the situations she finds herself in. She always comes back to opening her blue book and waiting for Aunt Dimity to speak (or actually write to her from the other side), so she can talk to her about her adventures and get advice.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants a good, easy and enjoyable adventure to read. Also, I would read the rest of the series too!
This is one series that will bring a smile to your face and a good feeling after every book!
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