Kim Kai, Private Eye completed Kim Kai, Private Eye AUTHOR: jessers_alti
LEAD: Kai
GENRE; SETTING: mystery, romance, gangs, action, angst, humour; school life
CHAPTERS: 34
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Jun Eunji's world is turned upside down when her best friend, Byun Baekhyun, comes home covered in blood one night.  Coincidentally, Eunji meets Kim Kai – a boy whose life-long dream is to be a private investigator.  Together, Eunji and Kai race to find out the truth about Baekhyun, but not without the help of some serious disguises, a few choir nerds, and advanced level calculus.

thoughts PLOT: Baekhyun comes home with blood on his hands and the next morning there's news of a murder on TV.  Baekhyun is also acting shifty, and Eunji decides she has to get to the bottom of it.

I'm in two minds as to whether I'm convinced by how quickly Eunji concludes there's a link between the murder and Baekhyun's appearance back home, but then they're practically joined at the hip and it's not normal for Baekhyun to come home covered in blood.  Nor is it normal for him to then go ignoring her for a day... and longer.  Kai is willing to help her, and things promptly turn out to be more dangerous than expected, involving the local gangs in town, Kai and Eunji doing things that are not strictly speaking legal (like tapping Baekhyun's phone and sifting through stuff in his house), and trying to fend off the curiosity of friends like Kyungsoo and Yixing who think they're immersed in some kind of role-playing game (and they, of course, want to play too).  A fair amount of chaos ensues, especially when it turns