Foote
A Mystery Novel
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2022
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-952271-60-1 (ISBN)
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-952271-60-1 (ISBN)
In the space of one weekend in Morgantown, West Virginia, private investigator Big Jim Foote finds himself at the centre of two murder investigations. Suspected of one killing at a local festival, he locates the body of a missing person immediately after. The cops are watching him, and Big Jim has a secret he dares not reveal.
“Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives—cryptid or otherwise.” —Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer
In the space of one weekend in Morgantown, West Virginia, private investigator Big Jim Foote finds himself at the center of two murder investigations. Suspected of one killing at a local festival, he locates the body of a missing person immediately after. The cops are watching him, and Big Jim has a secret he dares not reveal: he is a bigfoot living in plain sight, charged with keeping his people in the surrounding hills from being discovered. To protect the bigfoot secret, he must solve both murders—and convince himself it wasn’t a bigfoot who pulled the trigger.
Through the course of his investigations, Big Jim is helped by unique and well-rendered characters and friends in both his bigfoot and human communities. Readers are introduced to Appalachian mountain folk and traditional culture in new ways, even while Big Jim experiences the impact of the opioid epidemic on his own bigfoot kin. By centering a mythical creature as the unlikely protagonist in this enchanting literary murder mystery, Foote offers a winsome redefinition of a cryptid “monster” and breathes new life into the PI genre.
“Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives—cryptid or otherwise.” —Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer
In the space of one weekend in Morgantown, West Virginia, private investigator Big Jim Foote finds himself at the center of two murder investigations. Suspected of one killing at a local festival, he locates the body of a missing person immediately after. The cops are watching him, and Big Jim has a secret he dares not reveal: he is a bigfoot living in plain sight, charged with keeping his people in the surrounding hills from being discovered. To protect the bigfoot secret, he must solve both murders—and convince himself it wasn’t a bigfoot who pulled the trigger.
Through the course of his investigations, Big Jim is helped by unique and well-rendered characters and friends in both his bigfoot and human communities. Readers are introduced to Appalachian mountain folk and traditional culture in new ways, even while Big Jim experiences the impact of the opioid epidemic on his own bigfoot kin. By centering a mythical creature as the unlikely protagonist in this enchanting literary murder mystery, Foote offers a winsome redefinition of a cryptid “monster” and breathes new life into the PI genre.
Tom Bredehoft lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. In an earlier life, he was an English professor specializing in medieval literature.
Half-Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Chapter 1. Friday
Chapter 2. Saturday
Chapter 3. Monday
Chapter 4. WednesdayChapter 5. Wednesday, into Thursday
Chapter 6. Friday
Chapter 7. Still Saturday, into Sunday
Chapter 8. Still Sunday, into Monday
Chapter 9. Tuesday
Chapter 10. Wednesday
Chapter 11. Thursday
Chapter 12. Late Thursday, Early Friday
Chapter 13. Still Friday, into Saturday
Chapter 14. Still Saturday
Chapter 15. Still Saturday, into Sunday
AcknowledgmentsContributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Morganstown |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 123 x 201 mm |
| Gewicht | 151 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror | |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-952271-60-6 / 1952271606 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-952271-60-1 / 9781952271601 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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