A bestseller in Korea a biting fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the
consequences of loneliness. When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same
hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window Su-Yeon doesn't understand why she's the
only one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at the police force 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 dearest friend Grandma Eun-Shim lives on the sixth
floor and Su-Yeon is terrified that something will happen to her next. As Su-Yeon begins her
investigation alone she runs into a mysterious woman named Violette at the crime scene.
Violette claims to be a vampire hunter searching for her ex-lover Lily and is insistent that
a vampire is behind the mysterious deaths. Su-Yeon is skeptical at first but when a fifth
victim jumps from the window her investigation reveals the body was completely drained of
blood. Desperate to discover the cause of the deaths Su-Yeon considers Violette's
explanation-that something supernatural is involved. The Midnight Shift is a gripping mystery
overflowing with commentary about societal isolation and loneliness the sharp knife of grief
and the effects of marginalization perfect for readers of Cursed Bunny Woman Eating and A
Certain Hunger .
