The Shining Girls
by Lauren Beukes 2020-09-08 13:13:08
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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. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never ... Read more
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. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times. At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder -- until one of his victims survives. Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . . Less
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  • 9.5 X 6.5 X 1.25 in
  • 384
  • Little, Brown And Company
  • April 25, 2013
  • eng
  • 9780007464630
Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comics writer and occasional journalist.She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in a fantastical Johannesbur...
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