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Kylie Lee Baker, author of Bat Eater 'Combining feminist fury with creeping horror... Fans of Bunny will love this.' Eve Kellman, author of How to Kill a Guy in Ten WaysTHE NEW NOVEL BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EYES ARE THE BEST PARTJunyoung and Dahye are colleagues; he has a taste for voyeurismand she a hunger for revenge.   Molka (n): the Korean term for spy cameras secretly and illegally installed, often to capture voyeuristic images and videos.   Dahye has met the man of her dreams -  Hyukjoon, who happens to be the heir to a multi-billion fortune. Till one day, a video of them having sex goes viral. She is all over the internet and he is nowhere to be found. Junyoung is a nobody; a nothing office worker who harbours a dark secret: in every women's cubicle, shower and bathroom in his workplace, are cameras - his secret cameras. Junyoung spends his days watching and preying on his unsuspecting female victims.   Soon his perverse obsession turns to Dahye - but, this time, he has chosen the wrong woman to wrong. When Dahye's pain turns to blind rage - she decides that she will not rest until he has paid in blood...   Praise for THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART:'I was enticed from the first line' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER'An outstanding debut' THE NEW YORK TIMES'Darkly funny' FERN BRADY, author of STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER'Smartly written . . . 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