One of the most exciting releases of 2013 is Lauren Beukes’ third novel, “The Shining Girls”, due to be released
on April in the UK by HarperCollins and on June in the US by Mulholland Books.
I’ve seen a lot of crossing between speculative and noir fiction lately and the
results were pretty attractive so far. However, knowing the potential showed in
the previous novel, “Zoo City”, I
believe that Lauren Beukes and “The Shining Girls” have something very special
to offer. I still need to catch up with “Moxyland”,
the debut novel of Lauren Beukes, but although I am not certain I would manage
that in time for the release of “The Shining Girls” I still can enjoy the
book’s interesting and catchy trailer until then.
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 key to a house that opens on to
other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright
young women, burning with potential. He stalks them through their lives across
different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and
starts hunting him back.
Working
with an ex-homicide reporter who is falling for her, Kirby has to unravel an
impossible mystery.
THE
SHINING GIRLS is a masterful twist on the classic serial killer tale: a violent
quantum leap featuring a memorable and appealing girl in pursuit of a deadly
criminal.
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