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de Nancy Atherton (Author) "Kit Smith hadn't eloped with Nell Harris, which was a good thing, because it meant that I wouldn't have to push my best friend, Emma..." En savoir plus
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Near the start of Atherton's engaging 13th Aunt Dimity mystery (after 2007's Aunt Dimity Goes West), series heroine Lori Shepherd, the overprotective mother of five-year-old horse-obsessed twins, is alarmed when her sons insist they saw a vampire during their riding lessons. From her strange friendship with the spectral Aunt Dimity, Lori knows anything's possible, even vampires, though Lori fears a pedophile may be skulking in the woods outside the Cotswolds village where she and her family live. In search of answers, Lori cozies up to her odd, reclusive neighbors and immerses herself in local history. Lori's stable master friend, Kit Smith, lends his support. Though the vampire's identity borders on the implausible, most readers will have had too much fun to mind. (Feb.)
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The original paranormal detective returns in the latest installment of a beloved mystery series

Lori Shepherd's life in England couldn't be more tranquil or more satisfying-except for one thing. Her five- year-old twins have started school, and Lori fears they'll catch everything from the flu to fleas. What they do come home with, however, is worse: a report of a pale, cloaked figure with bloodstained lips lurking in the woods.

Lori is skeptical at first but soon grows concerned enough to consult with her late (but not entirely departed) Aunt Dimity and her dear friend Kit Smith. The vampire-hunting trail leads to Leo, a charismatic vagabond who just returned to England after a self-imposed exile, a bitter old crone named Lizzie Black, and finally to Aldercot Hall, where a mysterious murder took place forty years ago. With Kit and Aunt Dimity's help, Lori uncovers the secret that will shock everyone-including herself-about the true identity of the twins' vampire.

With its placid English countryside setting, eccentric characters, and lighthearted charm, Atherton's newest novel will enchant cozy mystery aficionados and the many loyal readers of the Aunt Dimity series. This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Cozy, frothy, undead, Oct. 9 2008
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This review is from: Aunt Dimity Vampire Hunter (Paperback)
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.
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