A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist. Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past/5(). · Title: The Shining Girls Author: Lauren Beukes Genre: Fantasy, Thriller Publisher: Harper / Mulholland Books Publication date: April 25 / June 4 Hardcover: pages The Time Traveler’s Wife meets The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in this story of a time-traveling serial killer who is impossible to trace–until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a. · EXCLUSIVE: Amy Brenneman (Tell Me Your Secrets, Judging Amy) is set for a key recurring role opposite Elisabeth Moss in Apple’s Shining Girls, a .
South African author Beukes, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Zoo City, adds an intriguing wrinkle to the serial killer suspense novel. In the creepy opening chapter, set in , sadist Harper Curtis, who's on the prowl for one of his "shining girls" ("bright young women burning with potential"), approaches six-year-old Kirby Mazrachi. Lauren Beukes's THE SHINING GIRLS is even scarier than that. Show More. Editorial Reviews [a] strong contender for the role of this summer's universal beach read. Ms. Beukes is a South African whose earlier works have been closer to hard-core science fiction, but The Shining Girls is pure thriller. The Irish writer Tana French, no slouch at. The girl who wouldn't die hunting a killer who shouldn't exist He's the perfect killer. Unstoppable. Untraceable. He thinks They say what does.
A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist. Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. The Shining Girls is a novel by South African author Lauren Beukes. The book centers on a time-traveling Depression-era drifter who must murder the "shining girls" in order to continue his travels. The Shining Girls was published on 15 April by the Umuzi imprint of Random House Struik in South Africa, on 25 April by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom, and on 4 June by Mulholland Books in the United States. “[Beukes] is so profusely talented—capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page—that a blockbuster seems inevitable The Shining Girls marks her arrival as a major writer of popular fiction.” — USA Today ‘Loaded with acrobatic twists.’ — New York Times.
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