{"product_id":"foote-a-mystery-novel-9781952271601","title":"Foote: A Mystery Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe Poison Flood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pallbearer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​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, \u003ci\u003eFoote\u003c\/i\u003e offers a winsome redefinition of a cryptid “monster” and breathes new life into the PI genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tale about humanity wrapped in the garment of an excellent hard-boiled thriller. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Poison Flood and The Pallbearer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first thing to say about \u003ci\u003eFoote\u003c\/i\u003e is that it is a strange and seemingly untenable hybrid of bigfoot fantasy and detective novel noir; the second is that its matter-of-fact voice and deeply authentic setting in the hollows of West Virginia render every part of the story perfectly real and entirely (marvelously) ordinary. This is a novel that uses moonshine heritage to delve into the modern opioid epidemic, and a novel that asks about the meaning of ‘otherness’ while reminding us what it means to be human. I fell into this book and loved it from the first page.”- Molly Gloss, author of \u003ci\u003eWild Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Horses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHalf-Title\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitle Page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCopyright Page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Friday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Saturday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Monday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. WednesdayChapter 5. Wednesday, into Thursday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Friday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Still Saturday, into Sunday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Still Sunday, into Monday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Tuesday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Wednesday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. Thursday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Late Thursday, Early Friday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. Still Friday, into Saturday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. Still Saturday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. Still Saturday, into Sunday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgmentsContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535595831639,"sku":"9781952271601","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781952271601.jpg?v=1755862215","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/foote-a-mystery-novel-9781952271601","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}