Mrs Shim is a Killer

DISCOVER YOUR NEXT READ, FOR FANS OF BUTTER AND YELLOWFACE - the Korean cult bestselling portrait of a housewife turned serial killer. Translated by Paige Morris A gripping tale of love, food and one woman''s unconventional quest to support her family. _____________ Widowed. Unemployed. Aged fifty-one. Mrs. Shim becomes a killer. In this savage and side-splitting literary thriller, an ordinary woman dives headfirst into a world of petty criminals, crooked cops, and accidental assassins. Around her orbit a washed-up fixer blackmailed by his boss''s daughter, a policeman''s wife undercover at a third-rate detective agency, a ghost marriage-broker with an attraction to hairdressers, and a son who unknowingly becomes her rival. What starts as survival turns into vengeance. For Mrs. Shim is done with being everyone''s doormat. Gritty, absurd, and darkly hilarious, MRS SHIM is a kaleidoscopic tale of love, loathing and self-reinvention. Its world of misfits, dead bodies and good food marks the exuberant arrival of a major new international literary voice.

Product details

• Authors: Kang Jiyoung
• Assisted by: Paige Morris (Translation)
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 23.04.2026
• EAN: 9781529957518
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-5751-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Korea, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Social issues, FICTION / Feminist, FICTION / World Literature / Korea, Thriller: organised crime