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The Shining Girls Lib/E

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About the Book

The girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist. The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own. 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 onto other times. At the urging of the house, Harper inserts himself into the lives of the shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing into another time after each murder, untraceable-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 ex-homicide reporter who covered her case, Dan Velasquez. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on the impossible truth. The Shining Girls is a masterful twist on the serial killer tale, a violent quantum leap featuring a memorable and appealing heroine in pursuit of a deadly criminal.

About the Author :
Lauren Beukes writes novels, comics and screenplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international best-seller, The Shining Girls, about a time traveling serial killer, Zoo City, a phantasmagorical Joburg noir which won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award, the neo political thriller, Moxyland. She wrote the New York Times best-selling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom and the Vertigo Comics horror series, Survivor's Club. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Coming soon... Khristine Hvam has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards, placed three times as a finalist for the prestigous Audie Award, and won the Audie Award for Best Narration in 2012 and 2013. She studied acting for the theater and film, and her voice can be heard in Pokemon, World of Warcraft, and in various television and radio commercials. Peter Ganim, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, is an American actor who has appeared on stage, on television, and in film. He has performed voice-over work since 1994. Jay Snyder is a voice actor, voice director, and script adapter who studied acting at the Julliard School in New York City. He is best known as the voice of Yugi Muto from the Japanese manga television series, Yu-Gi-Oh! His audiobook narrations have earned three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was a finalist for the Audie Award for Best Fiction Narration in 2015. Dani Cervone has performed in The Children's Hour, The Sons of Molly Maguire, and a one-act festival in the New York City. She has also toured nationally with The National Theater for Children and Chamber Theater Productions. Some of her favorite roles have been the title role in Educating Rita, Sally in Charlie Brown, and Helen in The Cripple of Inishmaan. She holds a BA in theater from the University of Northern Colorado and lives in New York City.

Review :
[Beukes is] so profusely talented-capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page-that a blockbuster seems inevitable....The Shining Girls marks her arrival as a major writer of popular fiction. -- "USA Today" A grisly crime thriller meets sci-fi action meets historical fiction in a wildly inventive summer page-turner. -- "Entertainment Weekly" A haunting, suspenseful meditation on fate and free will...In less assured hands, the two narrative strains might clash, but Beukes finds a way to make the hardboiled crime and science fiction tropes complement each other. Much of the novel's power comes from the way Beukes faithfully portrays the women who fatefully encounter Harper Curtis. -- "San Francisco Chronicle" A mind-melting, heart-pounding mashup that delivers on its promise. -- "Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author" A triumph...The smart and spunky Kirby Mizrachi is as exciting to follow as any in recent genre fiction ...Each chapter in which [Harper] appears holds a reader's attention, especially the sharply described murder scenes-some of which read as much like starkly rendered battlefield deaths out of Homer as forensic reconstructions of terrible crimes...This book means business. -- "NPR.org" Astonishing. -- "Time" Creepy, trippy, and entirely engrossing. -- "Parade" Intriguing...Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. -- "O, The Oprah Magazine" It's the black-hole version of The Time Traveler's Wife. -- "Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author" One of the scariest and best-written thrillers of the year, not to mention the most memorable portrait of a serial killer since Henry H. Holmes in....Erik Larson's 2003 nonfiction bestseller The Devil in the White City. -- "Chicago Sun-Times" This intense thriller packs punches that will leave you reeling. -- "RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars, Top Pick!)"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781478950868
  • Publisher: Hachette Book Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Book Group
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1478950862
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jun 2013
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Returnable: N


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