The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes audiobook

The Shining Girls

By Lauren Beukes
Read by various narrators

Hachette Book Group
10.56 Hours • • 1
Format : CD (In Stock)
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    ISBN: 9781478952152

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.

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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel

Finalist for the 2014 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

A 2013 CWA Gold Dagger Nominee

A 2013 GoodReads Readers’ Choice Nominee

An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2013

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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

It’s the black-hole version of The Time Traveler’s Wife.” —Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“A mind-melting, heart-pounding mashup that delivers on its promise.” —Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author
“Creepy, trippy, and entirely engrossing.” —Parade
“Astonishing.” —Time
“Intriguing...Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“[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
“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
“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 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
“This intense thriller packs punches that will leave you reeling.” —RT Book Reviews (4½ stars, Top Pick!)

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Author

Author Bio: Lauren Beukes

Author Bio: Lauren Beukes

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.

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Available Formats : CD
Category: Fiction/Thrillers/Suspense
Runtime: 10.56
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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