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  • The Shining Girls (Hardcover)

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    Author: Lauren Beukes
    Published by: Harper Collins Publisher

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A KILLER WHO SHOULDN’T EXIST.

A GIRL WHO SHOULDN’T HAVE LIVED.

A THRILLER WHICH BREAKS

ALL THE BOUNDARIES.

From the winner of last year’s Arthur. C. Clarke award comes a masterpiece of thriller writing, quite unlike anything else in tone and conception. It is 1931 and Harper, a violent down-and-out is living a hand-to-mouth existence in the shanty town of Hooverville, Chicago. After a murder, he’s hounded out of Hooverville by a vigilante group and find refuge in a mysterious house. To the outside world, this looks like an uninhabitable wreck, but inside it is something quite different. Like the wardrobe in C S Lewis or The Tardis in Dr. Who? it gives him access to different times and also offers him a vision – of his ‘shining girls’, women across time who are to become his murder victims. He visits them as children, then as teenagers, then as adults, when he will kill them and leave anachronistic clues on their bodies.

A serial killer who should be undetectable – until he picks on the wrong victim. In 1992 wild child Kirby Mazrachi, a clever, punkish misfit who miraculously survives his vicious attack, vows to track him down. But as his very existence is impossible – how can she ever find him?

Two damaged outsiders. Two impossible people locked in a bloody dance, a dance which will end in death. For one or the other…