The Good Son: THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION FROM KOREA'S (STEPHEN KING) MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Book Description

When Yu-jin wakes up covered in blood, and finds the body of his mother downstairs, he decides to hide the evidence and pursue the killer himself. 

Then young women start disappearing in his South Korean town. Who is he hunting? And why does the answer take him back to his brother and father who lost their lives many years ago.

The Good Son is inspired by a true story. 

Review

An intense, creepy, darkly funny read . . . a book focusing on the claustrophobic dynamics of a mother-son relationship that makes Mrs Bates and her son Norman look well-adjusted (Daily Telegraph)

A cool, crafty did-he-do-it thriller buoyed by a rising tide of madness. Provocative yet profound, humming with mood and menace, The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith (A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window)

Rightly compared to Stephen King (Die Zeit (Germany))

The queen of crime . . . You-jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense with her particularly well-executed thrillers (Glamour)

Readers will be relieved that this is fiction, not real life. This book will pull you in; as you devour it, you might perhaps resent the author's relentless pursuit of the evil coiled within humans. But this, too, is human (Kyoung sook Shin, New York Times bestselling author of PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER)

Gripping and often gruesome . . . a disturbing story of the events that unfold after Yu-jin, 26, wakes up to find his mother in a pool of blood (we did warn you) (Cosmopolitan)

Jeong expertly inches up the tension in this crafty, creepy story of a psychopath's coming-of-age (Guardian)

Ingeniously twisted (Entertainment Weekly, 'Must List')

Want to read an under-the-radar psychological thriller? Feel smug about pocketing The Good Son (Elle.com, '30 Best Books to Read This Summer')

A slow-burn psychological thriller with plenty of twists and things to think about (BookRiot)

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Product details

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Abacus (4 April 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0349142939

ISBN-13: 978-0349142937

Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm

About the Author

You-jeong Jeong was born in Hampyeong, South Korea. She initially trained and worked as a nurse. She is now South Korea's leading writer of psychological crime and thriller fiction and is often compared to Stephen King and Raymond Chandler. You-jeong is the author of four novels including Seven Years of Darkness, which was named one of the top ten crime novels of 2015 by the German newspaper Die Zeit. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Thai and Vietnamese. The Good Son is the first of her books to be translated into English.