Paul Koppisch

The Shaman's Daughter Paul Koppisch

It's August 1950. The corrupt, crime-ridden city of Pusan is surrounded by the Communist North Korean People's Army and completely cut off.

Meet Jimmy Hong, a young investigator struggling to make a name for himself finding missing persons, etc. while stuck in the city and trying to make the best out of the desperate living conditions caused by the siege.

One morning, two fishermen find the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washed up on the bank of the Nakdong River. The only clue to her identity is a pendant with a strange symbol. Hong, having lost his own unborn daughter when his pregnant wife died of cholera several years earlier, becomes obsessed with finding the girl's killer. With little to work with and operating in a city that may be overrun at any moment, Hong is in over his head...and about to cross paths with a dangerous man from his past.

A taut, pulsating, crime drama as well as a detailed work of historical fiction, The Shaman's Daughter is the first installment in the Quentin Hong Detective Series by Paul Koppisch.