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Bestselling novel, award-winning author, and well connected translator: Cheon Seon-Ran is a rising start in Korean science fiction and fantasy, who has won multiple international and national awards, and Gene Png has won key translation prizes in Korea and has been mentored by National Book Award Finalist Anton Hur. The Midnight Shift was a Korean bestseller and will be her first novel published in English in the US/Canada. Vampires: As nostalgia for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight rises, so too does interest in the mystical creature at The Midnight Shift's center. This book has all the campiness those fandoms love, while exploring millennial interest areas, like loneliness, social isolation, and the broad range of queer experiences. The quirky, queer murder mystery you didn’t know you were waiting for: This genre-bending novel has all the weirdness and darkness of popular translated fiction like Cursed Bunny and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed combined with the smart, insightful social commentary that will appeal to readers of Woman, Eating and A Certain Hunger.

Cheon Seon-Ran is the award-winning author of several novels and short-story collections. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Dankook University and lives in Seoul.

Gene Png is a literary translator and illustrator based in Seoul. She was awarded the Grand Prize in Poetry at the 53rd The Korea Times' Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards and is a mentee of Anton Hur (translator of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki).

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 Wanda at the crime scene. Wanda 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 Wanda’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.