The Shining Girls
by:
Lauren Beukes (author)
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...
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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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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781478952152 (1478952156)
Publish date: August 13th 2013
Publisher: AudioGO
Edition language: English
While I was reading this I was totally in it. Because it involved time travel and enough clues I could kind of tell that things would be resolved the way I wanted, but that didn't lessen the tension. And I kept seeing Kirby as the actor who played Alice in the 3rd season of Channel Zero (Olivia Lucc...
While reading this book, I began to imagine a conversation that goes something like this: A whole bunch of authors: “We like to try to confuse readers by making our stories bounce back and forth between three or four different time periods.” Lauren Beukes: *indelicate snort* “Bitches, that’s not...
First, we'll address the 800-pound gorilla in the room."How you doin', Mr. Bananas?""Doing fine, E. How's the family?""They're well. Autumn's growing up too quick and Chris... well, Chris is a dude. You know how dudes are.""I do, I do. So what is it that I can help you with, E.?""Oh, nothing. Just w...
Synopsis: 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 Depress...
The Shining Girls had a strong ending, which bumped this from a three to four star book for me. the plot: a serial killer, Harper, uses a mysterious house to travel through time to kill girls who "shine." here, "shine" seems to mean girls with special potential and energy. Harper's home of operation...
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