The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Historical Fiction
This program is read by the author., Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely. . . . Her tone and words transport us.San Francisco Chronicle on The Night Tiger, Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . ., 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 womans identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet theyve remained tantalizingly out of reachuntil, perhaps, now., Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure a
