[New in Korean] Lawyer-author returns with detective novel
A former judge and still a lawyer, writer Do Jin-ki has published another detective novel, “Revenge Law Firm.”
The book centers on prosecutor Yoon Hae-seong, who gains public attention by prosecuting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for violating the Act on the Protection of Children and Youth Against Sex Offenses.
But Yoon has something else on his mind: revealing the wrongful death of his father, whose murder 20 years prior was disguised as suicide. Yoon suspects the real murderer is Chairman Yang Da-gon, who became head of the giant corporation Hanul Motors.
With stardom now on his side, Yoon opens a lawyer’s office and hires Jeon Ki-ho as an office manager as well the mysterious woman Bang Soo-hee.
The legal team of Hanul Motors contacts Yoon to recruit him, upon command of Chairman Yang, who is curious about "the talk of the town." Yoon seizes the opportunity to make a move to become Yang’s aide while he begins to suspect similar motivations hidden in Yang’s secretary Han Yi-soo.
The three-volume novel was released by publisher Golden Bough, the fiction imprint of Minumsa Publishing Group, hitting shelves on Dec. 8. It is a compilation of Do’s first web novel series that ran from July 6, 2021 to April 19, 2022 on Naver’s web novel platform.
“It was the summer of 2020 when I first learned that there is something called ‘web novel,’” Do said in the author’s note of the book. “My colleague in the literary scene strongly recommended that I try this new platform.”
Do completed the manuscript for all three books -- about 6,000 pages -- in the fall of 2020, and published the manuscript serially. Read More…
