The Good Son
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4.2 • 10 Ratings
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
'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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"The smell of blood woke me." So says Han Yu-jin, a would-be law student with a history of seizures who lives in Incheon, at the start of South Korean author Jeong's superlative thriller, her first to be translated into English. After he regains consciousness, Yu-jin follows an increasingly ominous trail of bloody handprints and footprints to the kitchen, where he finds his mother's body. Her throat has been slit and her hands posed, clasped, on her chest. All Yu-jin can recall about the previous night is that he went out for a run around midnight in the rain to relieve his restlessness and saw a girl get off a bus. Did he kill his mother? His desperate efforts to sort out exactly what happened are intensified when his stepbrother and his aunt call to ask after his mother. Readers who enjoy grappling with the issue of a narrator's reliability will relish Yu-jin, who believes that "being true to life wasn't the only way to tell a story."
Customer Reviews
the good son
u-Jin, a young man with epilepsy who, one morning, wakes to a metallic smell, and finds blood everywhere. He finds the body of his murdered mother and himself covered in blood. He has no memory of what happened, but cleans up and hides the body. He tries to piece together what happened, but wonders if he is the villain of the piece. You-Jeong Jeong tells complex tale that tries to give us a deeper understanding of Yu-Jin and his past. There are plenty of twists to you keep you guessing. A great read.