The Good Son
​by You-jeong Jeong

The Guardian's Best Recent Crime Novels
PW Book of the Week, June 4, 2018
Entertainment Weekly's "Must List"
​Vulture's Books to Read This Summer 2018
Elle's 32 Best Books to Read This Summer 2018
CrimeReads 10 Best International Crime Fiction of 2018
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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 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?

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.

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Reviews
"Award-winning translator Chi-Young Kim ensures that Jeong is introduced to Anglophone readers with chilling precision."
—Booklist

"Absorbing . . . An unlikely thriller that we continue to read—thanks to Ms. Jeong's controlled prose . . . with a sickened sort of fascination. 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

"A superlative thriller."
--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"A creepy, insidious, blood-drenched tale in which nothing is quite what it seems."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Ingeniously twisted."
—Entertainment Weekly

"Want to read an under-the-radar psychological thriller? Feel smug about pocketing The Good Son."
—Elle.com

"Hard to put down."
—The Financial Times

"Jeong expertly inches up the tension in this crafty, creepy story."
—The Guardian

"Jeong's thrillers are wildly popular in South Korea, and we'll soon learn why . . . The gore is intense, but the psychological terror might never wash off."
—Vulture

"South Korea's Patricia Highsmith."
—CrimeReads

"[A] must-read psychological thriller."
—Lenny Letter

"A precise, meticulously plotted thriller . . . The tension comes from Jeong's prose, which spares not a single word . . . [The Good Son] sucks you in with precision and holds your attention, leaving you with a satisfying resolution."
​—World Literature Today

"Provocative yet profound, humming with mood and menace, The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith.”
—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

"A gripping, atmospheric, edge-of-your-seat thriller, The Good Son is moody and dark in the best way, with an unreliable narrator you won't soon forget. I loved it."
--Flynn Berry, author of Under the Harrow