The Midnight Shift

A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampiremurder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness.

When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital byjumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn’t understand why she’s theonly one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at the policeforce dismiss the case as a series of unfortunate suicides due to the patients’loneliness. But Su-Yeon doesn’t have the privilege of looking away: her dearestfriend, Grandma Eun-Shim, lives on the sixth floor, and Su-Yeon is terrifiedthat something will happen to her next.

As Su-Yeon begins her investigation alone, she runs into a mysterious womannamed Violette at the crime scene. Violette claims to be a vampire hunter,searching for her ex-lover, Lily, and is insistent that avampireisbehind the mysterious deaths. Su-Yeon is skeptical at first, but when a fifthvictim jumps from the window, her investigation reveals the body was completelydrained of blood. Desperate to discover the cause of the deaths, Su-Yeonconsiders Violette’s explanation-that something supernatural is involved.

The Midnight Shiftis a gripping mystery, overflowing withcommentary about societal isolation and loneliness, the sharp knife of grief,and the effects of marginalization, perfect for readers ofCursed Bunny;Woman,Eating; andA Certain Hunger.