For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith' A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window YOU WAKE UP COVERED IN BLOOD THERE'S A BODY DOWNSTAIRS YOUR MOTHER'S BODY YOU DIDN'T DO IT. DID YOU? HOW COULD YOU, YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN THE GOOD SON THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION FROM KOREA'S MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR YOU-JEONG JEONG. 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.
For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith' A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window YOU WAKE UP COVERED IN BLOOD THERE'S A BODY DOWNSTAIRS YOUR MOTHER'S BODY YOU DIDN'T DO IT. DID YOU? HOW COULD YOU, YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN THE GOOD SON THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION FROM KOREA'S MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR YOU-JEONG JEONG. 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.
You-Jeong Jeong is a certified international phenomenon . . . Genuinely surprising and ultimately satisfying . . . Seven Years of Darkness [bolsters] the case for Jeong as one among the best at writing psychological suspense." —Los Angeles Times NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2020 BY CRIMEREADS, BUSTLE, and AARP.org The truth always rises to the surface... When a young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a reservoir in a remote South Korean village, the police immediately begin their investigation. At the same time, three men--Yongje, the girl's father, and two security guards at the nearby dam, each of whom has something to hide about the night of her death--find themselves in an elaborate game of cat and mouse as they race to uncover what happened to her, without revealing their own closely guarded secrets. After a final showdown at the dam results in a mass tragedy, one of the guards is convicted of murder and sent to prison. For seven years, his son, Sowon, lives in the shadow of his father's shocking and inexplicable crime; everywhere he goes, a seemingly concerted effort to reveal his identity as the reviled mass murderer's son follows him. When he receives a package that promises to reveal at last what really happened at Seryong Lake, Sowon must confront a present danger he never knew existed. Dark, disturbing, and full of twists and turns, Seven Years of Darkness is the riveting new novel from the internationally celebrated author of The Good Son.
Yu-jin terbangun karena bau darah dan menemukan dirinya berbaring di ranjangnya sendiri dalam keadaan berlumuran darah. Tetapi itu bukan darahnya. Lalu darah siapa? Jawaban untuk pertanyaan itu baru diketahuinya setelah ia menemukan ibunya tergeletak tak bernyawa dengan leher tergorok di tengah genangan darah di kaki tangga apartemen dupleks mereka. Sebagai penderita epilepsi, ingatan Yu-jin sering bermasalah dan ia tidak bisa mengingat apa pun yang terjadi kemarin malam. Hanya suara ibunya yang selalu terngiang-ngiang di telinga. Suara ibunya yang memanggil namanya. Apakah sang ibu memanggilnya untuk meminta tolong? Atau untuk memohon agar Yu-jin tidak membunuhnya? Yu-jin pun berusaha mencari tahu apa yang terjadi, menggali ingatannya, dan menguak rahasia gelap tentang keluarganya... dan tentang dirinya sendiri. Sementara itu, di dermaga tidak jauh dari sana, ditemukan juga mayat seorang wanita muda dengan luka menganga di leher.
“Ingeniously twisted.” —Entertainment Weekly, “Must List” “Will leave even the most seasoned crime fiction readers guessing.” —CrimeReads "[Jeong] maintains suspense about her inhuman-seeming protagonist's fate until the bitter end.” —The Wall Street Journal Finalist for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’s “Summer Reads” Book Club The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 bestselling novelist known as “Korea's Stephen King” Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all right at home – he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. Yu-jin soon discovers her murdered body, lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of their stylish Seoul duplex. He can't remember much about the night before; having suffered from seizures for most of his life, Yu-jin often has trouble with his memory. All he has is a faint impression of his mother calling his name. But was she calling for help? Or begging for her life? Thus begins Yu-jin's frantic three-day search to uncover what happened that night, and to finally learn the truth about himself and his family. A shocking and addictive psychological thriller, The Good Son explores the mysteries of mind and memory, and the twisted relationship between a mother and son, with incredible urgency. Named a Must-Read Book of the Summer by Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Bustle, CrimeReads, Lit Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and Brit + Co
Yu-jin si sveglia una mattina nel proprio letto e scopre di essere ricoperto di sangue. Non solo il suo corpo, ma tutta la stanza ne è imbrattata. Lui non ricorda quasi niente della notte appena trascorsa, solo di essere uscito a correre per distendere i nervi. O meglio, di essere sgattaiolato fuori di casa visto che sua madre è meglio non sappia delle sue scappatelle notturne. Yu-jin ha ventisei anni e vive con lei e il fratello adottivo Hae-jin in un appartamento all’ultimo piano di un residence di Gundo, nella moderna periferia di Seul. Da quando sono morti in un incidente d’auto il padre e il fratello maggiore, Yu-jin è sottoposto a una terapia di psicofarmaci che tiene a bada l’epilessia di cui soffre, ma provoca terribili effetti collaterali: emicranie atroci, acufene, attacchi di rabbia. E vuoti di memoria. Ecco perché non ricorda cosa sia successo per essere ricoperto di sangue. Yu-jin esplora l’appartamento e trova in salotto il cadavere della madre, con la gola tagliata. A questo punto, comincia a ricostruire gli eventi della notte precedente e, quando un orecchino di perla mai visto prima scivola fuori dalla tuta indossata per correre, Yu-jinè terrorizzato.
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