But was she calling for help? Or begging for her life? All he has is a faint impression of his mother calling his name.

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. Yu-jin soon discovers her murdered body, lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of their stylish Seoul duplex. Synopsis: Who can you trust if you can’t trust yourself?Įarly 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. 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 * Literary Hub *ĭark, harrowing, horribly claustrophobic but hard to put down. It's a testament to the author's skill and seriousness of purpose that she maintains suspense about her inhuman-seeming protagonist's fate until the bitter end * Wall Street Journal * An unlikely thriller that we continue to read - thanks to Ms. The gore is intense, but the psychological terror might never wash off * Vulture *Ībsorbing. Want to read an under-the-radar psychological thriller? Feel smug about pocketing The Good Son *, '30 Best Books to Read This Summer' *Ī slow-burn psychological thriller with plenty of twists and things to think about * BookRiot * Ingeniously twisted * Entertainment Weekly, 'Must List' *

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

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 * But this, too, is human * Kyoung sook Shin, New York Times bestselling author of PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER * 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. Readers will be relieved that this is fiction, not real life. You-jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense with her particularly well-executed thrillers * Glamour * Rightly compared to Stephen King * Die Zeit (Germany) * Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Provocative yet profound, humming with mood and menace, The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith - A. 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 *Ī cool, crafty did-he-do-it thriller buoyed by a rising tide of madness.

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