I’ve talked before about how much I like unusual cozy mysteries – series that are out of the ordinary and twist the genre. Perhaps my favorite series is Juneau Black’s Shady Hollow Mysteries.
In this series, the characters are woodland animals who live in houses in towns, wear clothes, have jobs, and deal with murder. The amateur sleuth, Vera Vixen, is a reporter at the town paper. Orville the bear is a police officer, and her best friend Lenore the raven, runs Nevermore, the bookstore.
These are the perfect summer read and there are six books in the series with a new one coming out in October. The books are cozy, different, and a little dark, what with the murder and all. But you’ll enjoy them where every you spend your summer, on the beach or in your living room. I can’t recommend them highly enough!
SHADY HOLLOW by Juneau Black
The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case.
Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter where it leads. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy.
Vera finds more to this town than she ever suspected. It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera’s cunning and quickness to crack the case.
Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Cozy [Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, On Sale: January 25, 2022, Trade Size / e-Book , ISBN: 9780593315712 / eISBN: 9780385542449]
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About Leslie Langtry
Why the hell not?
Leslie Langtry does not like to write bios. Seriously, she’s just not good at it. You’d think that after fifty books, she’d be able to pull off a few sentences, but no, she can’t. It’s very disappointing. At least her books are good, which counts, in her mind, as a win.
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