A bestseller in Korea, a biting, unsettling 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.
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