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Summers End

Shady Hollow, Book 5

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A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favourite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen.

'Billed as Agatha Christie meets Beatrix Potter . . . Sometimes you just need an entertaining, escapist read to while away the hours' CULTURE FLY

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?

©2024 Juneau Black (P)2024 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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'It sounds daft - it is daft - but it's also lots of fun' (The People’s Friend Magazine)

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The plot (finally!) has some pleasing twists and turns (unlike others in this cosy series which are painfully predictable / fhe murderer is obvious in chapter 1!) - the inclusion of archaeology, folklore and in-fighting academia was wonderful

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