SHINING GIRLS PB

By: Lauren Beukes

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Paperback | 29 August 2013

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The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. 'GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived' (The Times).THE SHINING GIRLS is now streaming on Apple TV+, starring Elisabeth Moss and Jamie Bell"It's not my fault. It's yours. You shouldn't shine. You shouldn't make me do this."Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature - it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen ''shining girls'' through the decades - and cut the spark out of them.He's the perfect killer. Unstoppable. Untraceable. He thinks...Chicago, 1992. They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Tell that to Kirby Mazrachi, whose life was shattered after a brutal attempt to murder her. Still struggling to find her attacker, her only ally is Dan, an ex-homicide reporter who covered her case and now might be falling in love with her.As Kirby investigates, she finds the other girls - the ones who didn't make it. The evidence is ... impossible. But for a girl who should be dead, impossible doesn't mean it didn't happen...

Industry Reviews

'A powerful thriller - imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading' The Times

'I'm all over it' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

'Brilliant. A book about the duel of two fabulously realized characters. A triumph' Independent

'Clever story, smart prose' Stephen King

'Extremely creepy' Mail on Sunday ('Must Reads')

'Very smart, wholly original, completely kick-ass' William Gibson

'Engrossing as it is original, as rewarding as it is challenging. Superb - a beautifully layered work of fiction. Take the time to read this, it's mesmerizing' Sun

'Utterly original, beautifully written. This is something special' Tana French, author of In The Woods

'Brilliant. Forget GONE GIRL, now it's all about THE SHINING GIRLS' Observer

'Disturbing, smart and beautifully written' Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus

'This year's must-read' Stylist

'A new kind of thriller. A dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning murder story. It shines' Matt Haig, author of The Humans

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