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.
"[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 tremendous work of suspense fiction. What's more, it's a
fabulous piece of both time-travel and serial killer fiction, using
the intersection of those two themes to explore questions of free
will, predestination, and causality in a mind-melting,
heart-pounding mashup that delivers on its promise."--Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing
"A triumph ... [T]he smart and spunky Kirby Mizrachi is as exciting
to follow as any in recent genre fiction ... [E]ach 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
"I loved THE SHINING GIRLS. It really is a new kind of thriller,
sitting somewhere between The Time Traveller's Wife and The Silence
of The Lambs. A dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning
murder story guaranteed to give you heart palpitations. It
shines."--Matt Haig, author of The Radleys
"Intriguing...Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very
real ways. I'm all over it."--Gillian Flynn, O magazine
"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
"One of the summer's hottest books."--Wired.com
"The premise is pure Stephen King, but Beukes gives it an
intricate, lyrical treatment all her own."--Time
"THE SHINING GIRLS is utterly original, beautifully written, and I
must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something
special."--Tana French
"Very smart...completely kick-ass. Beukes' handling of the joints
between the realistic and the fantastic is masterful, and those are
always my favorite parts, in this kind of story. Not the weirdness
(which is itself superb here, and very ample) but the segue to it.
The liminal instant."--William Gibson
Unreservedly recommended."--Joe Hill
One of the best crime books of the decade! (CrimeReads)
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