Blood in the Tangerine Grove

Two tourists vanish on Jeju Island. Three days later, they are found dead beneath the tangerine trees. The police want an accident. Han Do-yun knows better.For years, Do-yun has guided strangers through Jeju's postcard-perfect coastlines, volcanic roads, and orange groves. He is calm, careful, and obsessive about one thing: counting every person in his group.Because once, long ago, he failed to bring someone home.When two young women disappear from his tour during a rain-soaked visit to a tangerine orchard, Do-yun refuses to accept the easy explanation surrounding their deaths. His questions lead him into a maze of altered records, missing phones, secret photographs, compromised witnesses, and a man in a yellow raincoat who seems to know where Do-yun will be before he gets there.But the deeper he digs, the less innocent anyone becomes.The detective helping him is hiding evidence. His employer has been selling information he should never have shared. A grieving mother is protecting her son. Old missing-person files begin connecting to places they should not. And buried beneath it all is a childhood tragedy Do-yun has spent fourteen years trying not to remember.Then another tourist dies.And this time, the evidence points to Do-yun.Inspired by real-world reports surrounding mysterious missing-person investigations on Jeju Island, Blood in the Tangerine Grove is an entirely fictional psychological crime thriller about guilt, disappearance, corruption, and the terrible things ordinary people will hide simply to survive.Somebody killed them.Everyone else had a reason to lie.