The Lady in Yellow

A gripping Korean detective story set in the Joseon era.

A great choice for readers who enjoy classic investigations and an Eastern atmosphere. She knows how to read clues by insects and find the solution where the investigation hits a dead end.

The calm way of life on the island of Taechhondo in the Yellow Sea is shattered by the arrival of an eccentric city woman. She wears European outfits, climbs into the mountains without end, and spends hours fussing with beetles and butterflies. Few people suspect that Han Kyung-eun is an entomologist. And soon it is her knowledge that helps clear the local young man of accusations—someone who is suspected of murder.

A year passes. In Gyeongseong, a singer is found strangled, and around her body swarms of bees gather. At first glance, everything seems to point to a simple robbery: money and valuables are missing. But where did the insects come from in the room? The case seems made for Kyung-eun. While examining the crime scene and the body, she notices more and more oddities: unusual injuries, clear signs of a struggle that no one in the house heard—and, above all, the bees. They were clearly brought intentionally, but for what purpose?

Together with her fiancé, the doctor Kim Ton, Kyung-eun begins a hunt for the killer—without yet knowing that this investigation will turn out to be the most risky and the hardest of all.