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Mrs Shim is a Killer

By: Kang Jiyoung, Paige Morris - translator
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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.

© Kang Jiyoung 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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