LEFT FUR DEAD

The owner of a rabbit farm and rescue operation needs help from her telepathic bunny friend to find a killer.

Juliette Bridge so loves caring for her bunny friends that she owns the rabbit-focused Fur Bridge Farm. Her particular favorite is Bun, the pet bunny who has the unique ability to share his thoughts with Jules telepathically. Bun just loves being right, and he feels a certain sense of told-you-so when he and Jules are out for a walk and he spots a frosty hand rising from the cold ground. Hard as it may be to believe, the pair has stumbled on a corpse right on the grounds of Fur Bridge Farm. When Jules reports her discovery to Sheriff Carver, he tells her that the body is that of Arthur Freeman, a man whom Jules and Bun think they’ve never heard of until they realize he’s Arty the Mime. Though Arty and Jules weren’t close, Jules knows him as a co-performer at local events where she’s showcased her rabbits, and he seemed a kind man who kept to himself (perhaps as only a mime can). Bun insists that he and Jules figure out what happened to Arty but soon realizes that Jules and the farm may have been the true targets of the killer. With the help of longtime farmhand Jess and new hire Lizzy, Jules tries to track down whomever has a grudge against her and her bunny family.

Written simply, without nuance or character complexity, Griffin’s debut offers little beyond that telepathic bunny to distinguish itself from the pack.