Summers End (A Shady Hollow Mystery)
A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favorite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen.
It's late August in Shady Hollow, and intrepid reporter Vera Vixen agrees to chaperone the school’s annual field trip to Summers End, an ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture. Naturally, her good friend Lenore Lee comes along to help her.
But when the group enters the tomb one morning, they find a corpse that is distinctly more. . . modern than expected. Digging deeper, Vera and Lenore discover that the deceased was involved in the recent excavation at the site, and very unpopular with their colleagues—including Lenore’s sister, Ligeia. Now the fox and raven must delve into the dark world of academia and archaeology to clear Ligeia’s name. Some creature at Summers End thought they were clever enough to get away with the perfect murder. Can Vera and Lenore unearth the truth in time?
It's late August in Shady Hollow, and intrepid reporter Vera Vixen agrees to chaperone the school’s annual field trip to Summers End, an ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture. Naturally, her good friend Lenore Lee comes along to help her.
But when the group enters the tomb one morning, they find a corpse that is distinctly more. . . modern than expected. Digging deeper, Vera and Lenore discover that the deceased was involved in the recent excavation at the site, and very unpopular with their colleagues—including Lenore’s sister, Ligeia. Now the fox and raven must delve into the dark world of academia and archaeology to clear Ligeia’s name. Some creature at Summers End thought they were clever enough to get away with the perfect murder. Can Vera and Lenore unearth the truth in time?
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Okay, I genuinely did not know what to think about this book when I first started reading it. I was not sure how I felt about it taking place in a whole new town with completely different characters, no show of Orville in this until the Epilogue? BUT I was pleasantly mistaken, I LOVED this book, it was a bit eerie with the artifacts and Durham in the middle of a death ritual but very clever with how they link it to this black market for artifacts....AND THE ENDING???? I honestly believed it was Greenleaf, Chesley, and Loring who were in cahoots with each other but come to find out THE CHIEF OF POLICE and Greenleaf? Bravo. I am so excited to see what is next but for now what a great way to add to the cozy mystery series thus far!
4.5 âï¸
This book was very different than the others but I loved it all the same! I loved hearing about some of the history of Woodland Culture, and unlike the other books in the series, I did not have the mystery solved til it was basically revealed! I absolutely LOVE this series & hope it continues.
This book was very different than the others but I loved it all the same! I loved hearing about some of the history of Woodland Culture, and unlike the other books in the series, I did not have the mystery solved til it was basically revealed! I absolutely LOVE this series & hope it continues.
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