What happens when justice is buried for decades… and someone decides to unearth it?
When the first body is found in a rain-soaked alley, a bolt through his spine, Inspector Han Min-jae knows this isn't random violence. It's precision. Patience. Planning.
Then another body falls.
And another.
Each victim has a quiet connection to a long-closed institution: Saeum House.
Each death follows a rule.
One is taken. One is returned.
As parcels begin arriving at police stations—and then at Han's own apartment—the killer's message becomes clear. This isn't revenge. It's accounting.
The deeper Han digs into the past, the closer he comes to a truth that was never meant to resurface. A truth tied to missing children. Sealed records. And his own father's name.
Now the city is watching. The press has named the killer The Archer. Fear spreads through train stations and quiet neighborhoods alike. Surveillance fails. Arrests feel staged. And the system seems more concerned with appearances than answers.
But the killer is not hiding.
He is preserving.
And he wants the world to remember.
The Silence of the Bolts is a haunting psychological crime thriller about memory, institutional silence, and the cost of burying the truth. For readers of slow-burn, morally complex suspense, this novel asks one devastating question:
When justice is delayed long enough… does it become something else?