Shady Hollow (A Shady Hollow Mystery)

Shady Hollow (A Shady Hollow Mystery)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 harmonyuntil 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

the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades

just as they used to back in college

As the nurses struggle with the skyrocketing number of sick patients

he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon

Behind the subterfuge

witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship

Three years later

is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them and

And it’s actually Willa’s steadfast older brother

He pulled off more than 200 heists

In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward

One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011