Evergreen Chase

Evergreen Chase (2021) Juneau Black (Shady Hollow #3.5)

The committee selects promising trees years in advance and assigns someone to tend each one right up until it’s cut down.

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“Wow, that’s more serious than I’d guessed. I thought someone just went for a walk and picked one out.” “No way. Other towns can do what they like,” Lenore said with the sort of disdain she usually reserved for nonreaders.

Orville and Meade examined the tree. “Look like teeth marks,” Meade said. “Could be muskrat or beaver.”

The beavers standing nearby huffed with offended pride. “We would never!” one declared.

“And, anyway, we’ve got tools for that!” another added, lifting a long saw the team had brought along.

A third beaver said, “Yeah, we’re not barbarians.”

Characters: Vera Vixen, Lenore Lee, Orville Braun, Howard Chitters, Theodore Meade, Parson James “Dusty” Conkers, Lefty, Joe Elkin, Callum Burrows, BW Stone, Lucy, Ben and Geoffrey Eastwood, Lathrop Stein, Lionel Fowler, Louisa Fowler, Mayor Windthrow, Barry Greenfield, Fredericka Bellwether, Alexander “Sandy” Sutherland

Cover illustration by Perry De La Vega

Publisher: Vintage Books

Rating: 9/10

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