Nancy Atherton

Lori Shepherd’s cozy village life in Finch grows less so when the 5-year-old twins start school. What might they catch? She could hardly expect it would a pale, cloaked figure with bloodstained lips lurking in the woods. Consulting with her (late) Aunt Dimity, Lori, a skeptic, follows a trail to a charismatic vagabond, a bitter crone, and to Aldercot Hall where a mysterious murder went down 40 years before. And there Lori learns the surprising identity of the twins’ vampire….