Esteemed author to launch new thrilling book in Brooklyn
Brooklyn BookBeat
Lauren Beukes’s writing, and her unique ability to brilliantly transcend genre in unexpected ways, has won her international critical and fan praise, and a multitude of impressive awards and distinctions. Her unparalleled imagination and ability to craft a truly original story have never been more present than in her extraordinary new novel, “The Shining Girls” (Mulholland Books; June 4, 2013).
Beuke will be coming to Brooklyn’s BookCourt on June 13 to celebrate the release of her book, which – described as “The Time Traveler’s Wife” meets “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” – is the riveting, creepy, and somehow all-too-believable story about a time-traveling serial killer being chased through decades past and present by his only surviving victim.
In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens onto other times. But it comes at a cost. Harper 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.