The Shining Girls

“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)

“[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)

“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)

“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)

“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)

“THE SHINING GIRLS is enthralling and dazzlingly inventive. Lauren Beukes risks everything with a startlingly original structure, that’s perfectly executed. A huge accomplishment.” (Deon Meyer)

“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)

“Imagine Poe and Steinbeck in a knife fight where Poe wins and writes Jack the Ripper’s version of The Grapes of Wrath. Lauren Beukes’s THE SHINING GIRLS is even scarier than that.” (Richard Kadrey)