Aunt Dimity and the Widow’s Curse

It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori
Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori
is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared a week of
roughing it with a curious toddler. The two attend a village events
committee meeting and Lori is astonished when the elderly, soft-spoken
widow Mrs. Annabelle Craven stands to make an announcement: she's
decided to hold a quilting bee in the old schoolhouse.

At the
quilting bee, Lori ends up seated beside Mrs. Craven, delighted at the
opportunity to learn more about her neighbor's life in the village of
Old Cowerton. But dear, sweet Mrs. Craven's stories reveal a startling
secret about her first husband's death.

With Aunt Dimity's
advice, Lori sets out to learn the truth about what the residents of Old
Cowerton refer to as the widow's curse--and the deeper she digs, the
more horrifying the tale becomes, until she discovers the most
astounding revelation of all.