num_pages: 352
description: The truth always rises to the surfaceWhen a young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake a reservoir in a remote South Korean village the police immediately begin their investigation. At the same time three menYongje the girls father and two security guards at the nearby dam each of whom has something to hide about the night of her deathfind themselves in an elaborate game of cat and mouse as they race to uncover what happened to her without revealing their own closely guarded secrets.After a final showdown at the dam results in a mass tragedy one of the guards is convicted of murder and sent to prison. For seven years his son Sowon lives in the shadow of his fathers shocking and inexplicable crime; everywhere he goes a seemingly concerted effort to reveal his identity as the reviled mass murderers son follows him. When he receives a package that promises to reveal at last what really happened at Seryong Lake Sowon must confront a present danger he never knew existed.Dark disturbing and full of twists and turns Seven Years of Darkness is the riveting new novel from the internationally celebrated author of The Good Son.
language: English
title: Seven Years of Darkness
publisher: Penguin Books