The Secret Seller

NEW HIT FROM KOREA THAT CAPTURED READERS IN ASIA AND EUROPE.

A FORENSIC MEDICAL THRILLER THAT SCARES WITH ITS REALISM.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER “SEOUL REPLICATOR.”

Everyone has secrets—but what if they start selling them for money?..

Detective Oh Da-yeon rapidly loses control of her own life: drinking, memory gaps, her husband’s cheating. On one of the darkest days, he stumbles upon the mysterious website “Your Secret,” where, for money, people’s most intimate confessions are put up for sale… including his.

When his wife’s lover disappears without a trace, and suspicions gradually converge on her, Da-yeon realizes: both of them have become pieces in a deadly dangerous game. Someone saw the woman on that fateful night— the one night that Da-yeon can’t remember anything about. While the police try to determine who became the victim whose body was found in a suitcase in the river, Da-yeon follows the trail of the person who buys and sells other people’s secrets. And the closer he gets to the truth, the more it costs.

Once you feel power over someone else’s secret, stopping becomes almost impossible.

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LI JONG-WAN graduated from the Graduate School of Creative Writing at Kookmin University and, for fifteen years, served as the chief editor of the only criminal-investigations magazine in Korea. Even before “forensic investigation” and “CSI” became commonplace in the country, he collaborated with practicing forensic experts and helped expand investigative methods: from studying micro-traces and analyzing bloodstains to profiling. For his contribution to popularizing a scientific approach in research, he received the Korean Magazine Press Award.

He was selected to participate in the National Theatre Company’s New Play Festival and also received a literary award from EBS Radio. The novel “Seoul Replicator” in France was nominated for the Le Prix des Nouvelles Voix du Polar / Pocket Popular Book Award 2022.