The Good Son
​by You-jeong Jeong

The Guardian's Best Recent Crime Novels
PW Book of the Week, June 4, 2018
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​Vulture's Books to Read This Summer 2018
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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

"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

"Disturbing but absorbing."
—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

"South Korea's Patricia Highsmith."
—CrimeReads