The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. āGONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrivedā (The Times).
THE SHINING GIRLS is now streaming on Apple TV+, starring Elisabeth Moss and Jamie Bell
āItās not my fault. Itās yours. You shouldnāt shine. You shouldnāt make me do this.ā
Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature ā it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen 'shining girls' through the decades ā and cut the spark out of them.
Heās the perfect killer. Unstoppable. Untraceable. He thinksā¦
Chicago, 1992. They say what doesnāt kill you makes you stronger. Tell that to Kirby Mazrachi, whose life was shattered after a brutal attempt to murder her. Still struggling to find her attacker, her only ally is Dan, an ex-homicide reporter who covered her case and now might be falling in love with her.
As Kirby investigates, she finds the other girls ā the ones who didnāt make it. The evidence is ā¦ impossible. But for a girl who should be dead, impossible doesnāt mean it didnāt happenā¦