'For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith' A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

That night, when I started to follow the woman with the sparkling ring, I finally found a clue to unravelling the mystery. I suddenly realised what I was attracted to. I was attracted to someone feeling afraid.


Yu-jin is a model student, a successful athlete and a good son. But one day he wakes up covered in blood. There is no sign of a break-in and there is a body downstairs. It is the body of someone he knows all too well . . .


Yu-jin struggles to piece together fragments of what he can remember from the night before. He suffers from seizures and blackouts. He knows he will be accused if he reports the body, but what to do instead? Faced with an unthinkable choice, Yu-jin makes an unthinkable decision.


'INGENIOUSLY TWISTED' Entertainment Weekly


'GRIPPING' Cosmopolitan


'INTENSE' Telegraph

[You-jeong Jeong is] South Korea's Patricia Highsmith, able to convey the internal and manipulative logic of even the most disturbed minds, while spritzing her tales with commentary on the isolation that comes with modern prosperity