The Shining Girls

The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes.

"It's not my fault. It's yours. You shouldn't shine. You shouldn't make me do this."

THE GIRL WHO WOULDN'T DIE

Kirby is lucky she survived the attack. She is sure there were other victims were less fortunate, but the evidence she finds is ... impossible.

HUNTING A KILLER WHO SHOULDN'T EXIST

Harper stalks his shining girls through the years - and cuts the spark out of them. But what if the one that got away came back for him?

‘Disturbing, smart and beautifully written’ Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus

‘A new kind of thriller. A dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning murder story. It shines’ Matt Haig, author of The Humans

‘A powerful thriller – imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading. GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived.’ The Times

‘Very smart, wholly original, completely kick-ass’ William Gibson