Lauren Beukes
8 SeriesLauren Beukes is a versatile South African author, known for her work as a novelist, screenwriter, television writer, comic book writer, and journalist. She has been honored with prestigious awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the University of Johannesburg prize, the August Derleth Prize, the Strand Critics Choice Award, and the RT Thriller of the Year. Lauren resides in Cape Town, South Africa, with her daughter.
In "The Shining Girls" by Lauren Beukes, Harper Curtis, a killer from the past, uses a mysterious House in Depression-era Chicago to travel through time and murder bright young women known as the shining girls. His intended final victim, Kirby Mazrachi, survives his attack and becomes determined to bring him to justice. Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with reporter Dan Velasquez, who covered her case, and together they begin to unravel the truth behind Harper's elusive trail of murders across time.
