Island of Sins

KOREA NATIONAL BESTSELLER.

The key to a series of crimes is hidden in the past of a profiler. But he remembers nothing about it…

Kim Sunho of the National Police Agency isn’t only a talented profiler who uses scientific approaches to identify criminals. He’s also a master interrogator: through subtle psychological techniques he leads suspects to confess. Yet even the strongest specialist is not immune to mistakes.

After one of his interrogations, a sixteen-year-old teenager—who was considered the murderer of a classmate—is driven to attempt suicide. To contain the scandal and avoid drawing attention, Sunho is transferred away from Seoul—to the island of Jindo in the Yellow Sea.

On Jindo, where shamanic traditions are carefully preserved, three women disappear one after another. There is reason to believe they were abducted, and the police receives a letter from the criminal—a set of mysterious phrases whose meaning no one can understand. Local investigators are at a dead end and need the profiler’s help. Sunho starts the investigation with familiar methods, but encounters something inexplicable.

During a shamanic ritual dedicated to laying to rest the soul of one of the missing women, he suddenly feels: this case may be connected to his long-ago past. Only… due to a head injury, almost all his memories from those years have been erased…