Book Beginnings + Friday 56: Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading. Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice and asks you to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and share a non-spoilery sentence or two.

This week I'm featuring Shady Hollow by Juneau Black. It's a really fun and quirky cozy mystery. I enjoyed it even more than I thought I would.

About the Book

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.

Book Beginnings

Up in the far north, away from everything you know and dream about, lies a small village called Shady Hollow.

Friday 56

"What can you tell me about the incident? Do you know who poisoned you?" she asked, getting right to the point. "Who in this town would have reason to try that?"

What have you been reading lately?