Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Juneau Black for Summers End, a unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favorite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen. In conversation with Sarah Lange, librarian at the West Allis Public Library.
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?
Juneau Black is the pen name of Jocelyn Cole and Sharon Nagel, authors of the Shadow Hollow mystery series, the idea of which was conceived at Boswell. They share a love of excellent bookshops, fine cheeses, and good murders (in fictional form only). Though they are two separate people, if you ask either of them a question about their childhood, you are likely to get the same answer. This is a little unnerving for any number of reasons.
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