The Shining Girls
By: Lauren Beukes
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780316248976; 9780316216852; 9780316245210
Subjects: Occult; Serial murders; Crimes against; Fiction; Women Sleuths; Thrillers; FICTION; General; Time travel; Women
Description: **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 Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. 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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