This is just how convicted cannibal and serial killer - and now death-row inmate - Yoo Young-chul had psyched himself up before going after his prey from 2003 to 2004. The original Korean title of her novel translates as The Origin Of Species and the fictional killer was described as listening to the electronic song Conquest Of Paradise (1992) by Greek composer Vangelis. Jeong reportedly takes inspiration from a real-life case in the climactic scene. The Good Son flits between flashbacks and fantasies, delusions and diary entries, as Han, himself an unreliable narrator given his woolly recollections, tries to piece together the events leading up to the tragedy.

The whodunit locked-room mystery is solved quite early on, at which point the novel evolves into a chilling psychological look down the rabbit hole into a seriously unhinged mind.

His brother Kim Hae-jin, an orphan adopted into the family after Yu-jin's own biological father and brother drowned in a mishap when he was a child, had apparently not been home the entire night. With a hazy memory of the last 12 hours, he stumbles down the flight of stairs in his family's swanky duplex to find his mother lying in a pool of blood with her throat slit open. But he soon realises in horror that he is covered in blood. Zitwer Agency.He wakes up disoriented one morning to a metallic smell, which he at first groggily attributes to an unwelcome side effect of skipping his medication. This twisty tale reinforces Jeong’s place as the queen of South Korean thrillers. Jeong does a good job making the unlikable Hyonsu deserving of sympathy, though some may wish she focused less on the past and more on Sowon’s current predicament. Readers may think they know the full story, but the atmospheric plot unfolds in unexpected directions. Seven years later, when Sowon receives a mysterious manuscript in the mail purporting to tell what really happened in 2004, Sowon realizes he faces a serious threat. Hyonsu was convicted of mass murder and sent to prison, and an uncle in Seoul adopted Sowon. When Choi Sowon, the narrator of this riveting novel from Jeong ( The Good Son), was 11 years old in 2004, Sowon’s father, Choi Hyonsu, the head of security at Seryong Dam, was arrested for killing his wife and an 11-year-old girl and her father-and for causing more deaths after opening the dam floodgates above Seryong Village.

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