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Detective Yi Chang's sister was healed of deadly cancer ten years ago by a mysterious cult leader. Now his young niece has inherited the same disease, and the only lead is a murder victim found stabbed in an abandoned building on the Korean seaside — with a knife covered in someone else's blood. The investigation pulls Yi Chang into a world of faith healers, desperate families, and the question of whether miracles can be real when the people who perform them are murderers. Cho Yeeun's thriller braids crime fiction with questions about faith and desperation — the lengths people will go to when medicine fails and someone offers the impossible. The seaside setting adds atmospheric weight to a story that is already heavy with moral ambiguity. A detective novel about the intersection of crime and belief — and the devastating discovery that sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.