Ghost Detective
If you like mystery and ghost stories, why not try Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity Mysteries! Aunt Dimity is a ghost who helps our fearless protagonist, Lori Shepherd, solve mysteries.
A great introduction to this series is Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective. This book includes the first two Aunt Dimity stories, Aunt Dimity's Death and Aunt Dimity and the Duke. Not to be taken too seriously, the Aunt Dimity books are just an enjoyable read to curl up with. Set in the quaint small town of Finch, England, the mysteries are not gruesome murders, but light everyday puzzles that Lori must solve. These tales also feature recipes from the story.
In the first book we meet Lori, who has just turned 30, mourning her mother's death and working thankless temp jobs. One night Lori learns that she has received an inheritance from Aunt Dimity, who Lori previously believed was a fictional character in her mother's bedtime stories. Dimity has left her millions but there is a catch. She must travel to England and solve an eerie mystery that requires her to read the correspondence between her mother and Dimity.
The second book has Emma Porter innocently visiting Cornwall, on a garden tour. However, the ghost of Aunt Dimity leads Emma to a mansion where she gets roped into restoring a chapel garden and solving a mystery surrounding the near-death of a snobby family cousin.
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