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Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

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December 20, 2025 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

A few months ago on vacation, my niece and I stopped in a bookstore to browse. We saw the Shady Hollow series display at the same time and both said, “Ooooh.” These books have the most charming covers, so I downloaded the first one from my library to read on the flight home. Naturally, my hope was that the story would be just as charming so I could justify buying them all to hoard like a dragon. Sadly, ’twas not to be. Shady Hollow, a cozy mystery […]

If Agatha Christie wrote The Wind in the Willows

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

November 4, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

CBR 16 Bingo – Détante: The town was peaceful, but that state of peace was clearly fragile, and it was disturbed. In the small town of Shady Hollow woodland creatures live in harmony and peace. That is until Otto Stump, an old toad, is killed. The town reporter, Vera Vixen, who has been looking for a way to rise in the ranks in the town paper plans to write about the case and do some investigative work of her own. When she discovers that the […]

A Fable-ulous Murder

December 25, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I found this book during a stop at Boswell Books in Milwaukee, WI, my favorite independent bookshop ever in this country, and maybe beyond. This matters because it turns out one of the authors works there as a bookseller; there are 2 authors who together use the name Juneau Black I didn’t get an autograph though because she was in the middle of something when I was there, but maybe next time. So, Shady Hollow is nominally a murder mystery, classified as the cozy sort. […]

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I can see this being one of my top reads this year. I keep thinking about it
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Esmemoria
on “The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
I loved this book. One of my top five reads from last year.
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I've liked the Percival Everett books I've read and do plan to read more, but I think I'll skip this...

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