Lauren Beukes

The Shining Girls

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Produktbeschreibung

Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes (San Francisco Chronicle). 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 . . . “Utterly original, beautifully written, and I must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something special.” —Tana French

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780316216869
• ISBN-10: 0316216860
• Artikelnr.: 38395116

Autorenporträt

Lauren Beukes writes novels, comics and screeplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international bestseller Broken Monsters; The Shining Girls, about a time traveling serial killer; Zoo City, a phantasmagorical Joburg noir and winner of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award; and the neo-political thriller Moxyland. She worked as a journalist and as show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary, and wrote the New York Times bestselling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Rezensionen

'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