02576cam a2200421 i 4500 1473149654 TxAuBib 20240801120000.0 240202s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024003898 9781420514001 hardcover 1420514008 hardcover (OCoLC)1420042641 TxAuBib rda Choo, Yangsze, author. The fox wife : [text (large print)] : / Yangsze Choo. Large print edition. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. 653 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print historical fiction "Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach--until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can't escape the curse that afflicts them--their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family's luck seems to change--or does it? Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all she's a mother seeking vengeance for her lost child. Hunting a murderer, she will follow the trail from northern China to Japan, while Bao follows doggedly behind. Navigating the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur."-- Provided by publisher. 20240801. Large type books. Murder fast Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Foxes Fiction. Manchuria (China) History Fiction. large print books. aat Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. lcgft Novels. fast Romans. rvmgf Thorndike Press large print historical fiction. TXBRI