5/29/2023 0 Comments Shady hollow by juneau black![]() ![]() This entry, with its obvious culprit and standard-issue plot, shows that giving a character fur or wings is no substitute for an original, well-rounded personality. Vera investigates, even though Orville warns her to stay out of police business. Could this be the final resting place of Julia, a moose who disappeared some years earlier? It doesn’t take long for Vera’s budding sweetheart, Deputy Orville Braun (a bear), who has learned his detecting skills from The Big Book of Policing, to make Joe, Julia’s moose husband, suspect number one. 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. ![]() Broadhead (a snake), slithers up and determines that the remains belong to a moose. Vera Vixen (a fox), intrepid reporter for the Shady Hollow Herald, is at Cold Clay Orchards interviewing the rabbit workers about the coming harvest when bunnies Ralph and Peter uncover the bones of a large mammal. The pseudonymous Black’s lame sequel to Shady Hollow revisits the village of Shady Hollow, whose inhabitants amount to clichéd humans in animal form. ![]()
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