The Mushroom House Files

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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?</p>