Reviewed by Jeanne
Vera Vixen is the star reporter for the Shady Hollow Herald because this quick red fox has
quite the nose for news. Most of the
time she covers events of local interest such as the spelling bee, but this
time something almost unheard of has happened:
one of the citizens of the Hollow is dead and it looks like murder. The deceased, Otto Sumpf, was the town
curmudgeon with a sharp tongue but would that have been a reason for
murder? With police chief Theodore Meade
too busy fishing (and avoiding unpleasantness) to take an active part in the
investigation, Deputy Orville Braun dusts off The Big Book of Policing
to solve the case.
Enjoyment of this book is highly dependent on your tolerance
for whimsy. The characters are all animals,
from Lenore the raven who runs Nevermore Books to Reginald von Beaverpelt,
leading citizen and sawmill owner. The
pace is leisurely but I liked the resolution.
I have to say I enjoyed it, but then I like movies like Zootopia or Fantastic Mr. Fox. I’m not going
to spend a lot of time wondering how a moose serves coffee or a snake does a
medical examination. I’m going to go
with the flow. I thought the idea was
cute and I enjoyed the characters, enough so that I will be reading the rest of
the series.
Books in the series are:
Shady Hollow
Cold Clay
Mirror Lake
Twilight Falls
Summers End (2024)
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