![]() ![]() It’s difficult not to be caught up in her story and impossible not to feel terrified at her ignorance about exactly what she’s up against. Kirby, the single one of Harper’s intended victims to get away, is a fierce, vulnerable main character. But what happens when one of them, Kirby, manages to survive? He knows he has to follow his own trail through time to find his ‘shining girls’, and he has to kill them all because he’s killed them before. In its upstairs room he finds a series of gruesome mementoes from his murder victims – except that Harper hasn’t killed any of them yet. ![]() In Chicago, 1931, serial killer Harper is given the keys to a house that allows him to travel through time. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading The Shining Girls, you won’t be for long. I haven’t read anything like it before, and in a strong and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts, a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explained. ![]() As The Shining Girls’ tagline says, this is a thriller that breaks all the boundaries. ![]()
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