No Song in the Hollow
(2026)(The first book in the Paws in the Pines Mystery series)
A novel by Hailey Hartley
When landscape architect Juni Calloway trades her city career for an open-ended retreat at a remote cabin in the mountain hollow of Pinecrest Hollow, she's expecting pine trees, peace, and the chance to finally breathe. What she gets instead — on her very first hike — is Asher, her relentlessly curious golden retriever, dragging her off the trail and straight to a dead man's door. The local sheriff calls it a tragic accident. Asher keeps pawing at the fireplace. And Juni, trained by years of reading landscapes, can't quite stop looking at the chimney.
Pinecrest Hollow is the kind of place where everyone knows your name before you've introduced yourself, where the general store owner already has your honey jar waiting, and where the wrong question asked in the right diner booth can crack a town wide open. As Juni digs deeper — into the ridgeline above the hollow, into the dead man's careful notebooks, and into the suspicious timing of a developer with a very clean pair of boots — she discovers that someone had a very good reason to want the old birdwatcher silenced. And that Asher, as it turns out, has been trying to tell her exactly what happened from the very first morning.
Warm, witty, and full of the particular charm of small-town secrets, No Song in the Hollow is the first book in the Paws in the Pines Mysteries — a cozy series set in the woods, where the dogs are smarter than they let on, the coffee is always on, and justice has a way of finding its way home.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Pinecrest Hollow is the kind of place where everyone knows your name before you've introduced yourself, where the general store owner already has your honey jar waiting, and where the wrong question asked in the right diner booth can crack a town wide open. As Juni digs deeper — into the ridgeline above the hollow, into the dead man's careful notebooks, and into the suspicious timing of a developer with a very clean pair of boots — she discovers that someone had a very good reason to want the old birdwatcher silenced. And that Asher, as it turns out, has been trying to tell her exactly what happened from the very first morning.
Warm, witty, and full of the particular charm of small-town secrets, No Song in the Hollow is the first book in the Paws in the Pines Mysteries — a cozy series set in the woods, where the dogs are smarter than they let on, the coffee is always on, and justice has a way of finding its way home.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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