Behind Five Willows

Behind Five Willows

Author: June Hur Listening Length: 8h 35m
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest ...

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A day had passed since the break-in, and Seojun had scarcely found his bearings when his father—who’d learned of the incident through a servant—summoned him to give an account to a police investigator.

Seojun shared what he could, fabricating a tale about how his box of coins had been stolen, while carefully omitting any mention of his missing manuscript.

Once the investigator left, Seojun quietly began his own inquiries.

He questioned Maid Daebi again, along with nearly a dozen other servants who had been awake when the crime had occurred.