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Welcome to Royal Town

Author

Kwak Youngim

Publisher

GOZKNOCK ENT

Categories

Genre Literature

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #genre novel
  • #thriller
  • #premium
  • #murder
  • #nursing assistant

Copyright Contact

Park Miae

  • Publication Date

    2022-01-24
  • No. of pages

    352
  • ISBN

    9791163162339
  • Dimensions

    145 * 210
Overview

A girl is found dead at Royal Town, a luxurious residential complex.

Book Intro

(English) Welcome to Royal Town

*A dead body found in Royal Town, a luxurious residential place for only 0.01% of Koreans**

Won Sey-kwon is a CEO who made a tremendous fortune through successful M&A projects using his unusual insights in the 1990s. One day, a dead body is found in the main building of Royal Town, a luxurious residential place for only 0.01% of Koreans, built by Chairman Won.

Detective Park and police officer Shin Hyeon-soo are dispatched to Royal Town. Detective Park asks about the identity of the dead body to the security manager, who is the first on the scene, and he answers that he guesses it’s a nursing assistant who’s worked in the VIP ward of the main building. The moment he reveals her name, police officer Shin freezes.

 

*Dark secret of the “girl that everyone loved”**

As a result of fingerprint identification, the dead person is identified as Yu Saet-byeol, a 20-year-old nursing assistant. Shin Hyeon-soo can’t believe it’s Saet-byeol, who grew up with her like a real sister in the same orphanage. Hyeon-soo doesn’t believe that Saet-byeol committed suicide and struggles to find out the cause of her friend’s death. However, there’s no evidence of murder.

As Hyeon-soo investigates the case in depth, the young nursing assistant, who was known as a bright, smart, and lovely girl before, is labeled as a suspect of theft who owned expensive cameras and enjoyed extravagant hobbies. On top of all this, suspicion is raised that she had a “special relationship” with Chairman Won or other residents of the premium suites, and even “paper narcotics” are discovered in the articles left by Saet-byeol.

 

*Text message from the dead spread across the funeral venue**

In relation to the accusation of theft, Detective Park immediately senses there’s been falsified testimony by the Royal Town residents, but under the circumstances he cannot be overly aggressive in  continuing the investigation due to the lack of new evidence. The only thing he can do is wait for the autopsy results from the National Forensic Service.

On the day the body of Saet-byeol is scheduled to depart from Royal Town, a text message is sent to all the people at the ceremony. “I am not dead.”

 

*Another murder case**

Detective Park and Shin Hyeon-soo doubt the background circumstances of Saet-byeol while investigating everyone who received the text message.

Meanwhile, the security manager, who had doubts about her death more than anyone, is murdered.

How is this murder related to the death of Saet-byeol? And who could be the culprit?

 

*Unbelievable things**

As the camera that Saet-byeol used is discovered, the list of suspects narrows. One day, Jenny, a friend of Saet-byeol and daughter of Chief Director Won Ju-hee, contacts Detective Park. She says that the entire Royal Town community, including her, drove Saet-byeol to her death. What’s the truth behind her death in which Chief Director Won Ju-hee, the people around her, and even Saet-byeol’s colleague Im Jun-seo are involved? The true faces of those around her are revealed, faces that are far more dreadful than those of strangers.

About the Author

Kwak Youngim



(English) Kwak Young-im is a novelist, broadcasting writer, dramatist, and musical writer.

Kwak studied economics at university, and after working at a lobbyist company, started working as a broadcasting writer. She worked for various programs ranging from educational/informative programs on music, economy, medicine, and law, documentary/current affairs programs, to short dramas. She also wrote musical scenarios for Gwanghwamun Yeonga 2 and Soap Opera.

Kwak won the excellence award with her story K-innocence Project at the Korea Story Contest. In addition, she was awarded at 2021 KOCCA New Story Writer Contest with her mystery thriller Welcome to Royal Town. Welcome to Royal Town is a story about a murder case that occurs in Royal Town, a top-class residential complex. This story explores the true meaning and nature of relationships that we inevitably form in our life.

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