In a starred Publishers Weekly review James Church’s A Corpse in the Koryo is heralded as “an impressive debut that calls to mind such mystery thrillers as Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park.”
Set against the backdrop of totalitarian North Korea, Police Inspector O is called in when the government becomes desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murders.
After the discovery of a corpse in the Koryo, Pyongyang’s main hotel, Inspector O must choose between the devils he knows and those he doesn’t.
The pseudonymous Church is a former a former Western intelligence officer with decades of experience in Asia.
A new and exciting addition to the international mystery genre.