- Overview
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- Book Intro
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Informed by detailed historical research and compassionate sensitivity,
this is the second story of the criminal profiler Kim Seongho of Creepy Island
"They all pretended they didn't hear me screaming.
My neighbors, my friends, even my parents...."
The body of a boy was discovered in a refrigerator abandoned on the mountainside near a residential area. The naked body was washed clean, without a single trace of blood or fingerprints. The police raid the home of Seoyeon, the former owner of the refrigerator, but she claims she sold the appliance through an online second-hand market. Seoyeon is soon cleared of any charges and released, but she is severely shocked after she finds out that the boy in the refrigerator was responsible for a violent incident at a school, which she had quit two years ago. The criminal profiler Seongho is brought in when the investigation fails to make any progress, and as a series of events tainted with evil follows, the hatred inside begins to rear its head.
- About the Author
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Kim Jae-hui
Jae-Hui Kim graduated from Yonsei University and received a master's degree in film scenario at the Graduate School of Culture and Arts Management at Chugye University for the Arts. He won the Korea Scenario Writers Association Scenario Bank Competition and the NKino Synopsis Competition and has worked as a screenwriter at Kang Je-Kyu Film.
Kim debuted with Hunminjeongeum Assassination in 2006 and became a bestselling writer of "a successful Korean faction." Since then, he has published mystery novels set in a historical backdrop including The Baekje Society; Colors, Sharaku; The Golden Sword of Honor; and Gyeongseong Detective Yi Sang 1-3, as well as a crime story, Creepy Island, and a literary thriller, The Sea of Spring Days, set in contemporary Korea. Kim received the 28th Korean Mystery Literature Grand Prize for Gyeongseong Detective Yi Sang, in which the poet Yi Sang and the novelist Gu Bo appear as detectives. Kim is a member of the Korean Mystery Writers Association
