Chesspiece
"In a game where every move is calculated, the most dangerous player is the one who doesn't know they're playing."
At thirty-three, Han Bo-young is the prodigy of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency. A dual graduate of American law and medical schools, she possesses a mind that operates like a supercomputer, dissassembling crime scenes with a clinical coldness that unnerves her peers. But Bo-young is haunted, not by the dead, but by a past and present she's unable to escape from.
The city is paralyzed when a series of "impossible" murders begins. The victims are high-profile figures: government officials, business moguls, and icons, found murdered in very artistic ways. At every scene, a signature is left behind: a single, black obsidian chess piece.
The media calls him The Grandmaster, a killer who treats the city as a board and human lives as pawns.
As Bo-young leads the hunt, she finds herself trapped in a psychological cage. The killer seems to be omniscient, always aware and prepared for every situation.
The pieces are moving. The clock is ticking. And in this game, checkmate means the end of a soul.