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. A VINTAGE CRIME BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL
