Ashley Hollow
ASHLEY HOLLOW
Fern Valley Cozy Mystery Series
Good morning.
After nearly a month, we were finally able to dig out several inches of ice away from our chicken run gate. The warmer temps had softened it enough to where a bit of elbow grease and a sharp shovel was able to crack it apart. Finally! Tonight after the chickens went to bed, we were able to close the gate to their run to keep them safer. We live in the mountains on several acres, no fencing. Our property abuts a large mountain creek that is roaring like a river at present, from all the snow melt, and nothing but hundreds of steep slopes and uninhabited forest just on the other side of the creek. To say we're "sequestered" is an understatement, and the wild animals come and go as they please and roam all around us. We have many carnivorous wildlife that relish a chicken dinner. Keeping their run secure at night is such a relief. We had to leave it open during the hard freezes, otherwise we'd have never been able to get in there to care for them.
So to get to my point: I'm very thankful for warmer temperatures! How's the weather where you are? I had one reader from "Down Under" write to me a few weeks back, saying that they were dealing with 120ºF (48ºC) temperatures!
Well, enough about the weather. We have a great new cozy read for you today, and some mentions. I hope this letter finds you healthy and blessed!
Love,
Ashley H.
Today's Cozy Feature:
Murder on the Bunny Slope
A Bunny Slope Body—and a Beagle.
All Poppy James wants is an easy ski lesson, a mug of cocoa, and a weekend where her biggest problem is boots designed by villains. Then her beagle, Midsip, drags her to a snowbank on the bunny slope… and the ‘accident’ staged there feels wrong in her bones.
With history-buff Theo decoding resort maps like old rail timetables and best friend Nadine charm interrogating staff between trivia rounds, Poppy follows a trail of ‘maintenance holds,’ vanishing receipts, and a corridor the resort swears doesn’t exist.
The polished general manager, Garrett Madison, is eager to keep investors smiling. The ski patrol supervisor insists the barricades are routine—yet his rigging looks anything but.
When a photo disappears from Poppy’s phone and warnings arrive that only someone nearby could know, she realizes the mountain isn’t just hiding secrets.
If she can’t crack the schedule before Sunday’s closed door meeting, the next body won’t be staged for show.
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