Detective Reginald 'Reggie' Finkle has seen it all: shadowy syndicates, stolen diamonds, even a particularly tricky case involving a rogue gopher and the mayor's prize-winning petunias.
But after the Great Unraveling - an event everyone politely calls 'the shift' - Reggie traded his fedora for a gardening hat and his city apartment for a charming, albeit sentient, mushroom house deep within the Whispering Woods.
His new retirement plan? Solving the mysteries of cultivating the perfect glow-moss and enjoying a quiet life.\n\nThat is, until his meticulously organized, highly classified evidence files start vanishing.
Not from a master thief, but from a gang of suspiciously intelligent, acorn-obsessed squirrels What begins as a petty nuisance escalates when Reggie realizes these aren't just any old case files.
They hold clues to the 'before times, ' hinting at a larger mystery connected to the very fabric of the post-Unraveling world and the curious magic now seeping into everything.\n\nJoin Reggie, his grumpy but loyal pet rock, Bartholomew, and a host of quirky forest creatures as he reluctantly dons his deerstalker once more.
Can a retired detective outwit a parliament of pilfering squirrels and uncover a conspiracy that might just explain the new, cozy apocalypse, or will his most important evidence become squirrel-hoard fodder?