The Shining Girls

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The Shining Girls is a genre-blending thriller novel by Lauren Beukes about a time-traveling serial killer and the survivor who hunts him down.

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instanceOf novel
science fiction novel
thriller novel
time travel fiction
adaptation Shining Girls NERFINISHED
adaptationReleasePlatform Apple TV+ NERFINISHED
adaptationReleaseYear 2022
adaptationType television series
antagonist Harper Curtis NERFINISHED
author Lauren Beukes NERFINISHED
awardReceived 2013 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel
countryOfOrigin South Africa
genre crime fiction
horror
science fiction
thriller
hasISBN 9780316216852
literaryStyle multiple perspectives
nonlinear narrative
mainCharacter Harper Curtis NERFINISHED
Kirby Mazrachi NERFINISHED
mediaType audiobook
ebook
print
narrativeFeature female survivor hunts attacker
time-traveling serial killer
notableFor female-led investigation narrative
genre-blending of crime and speculative fiction
originalLanguage English
plotElement serial killer targets "shining" girls across time
survivor investigates attempted murder
protagonist Kirby Mazrachi NERFINISHED
publicationDate 2013
publisher Mulholland Books NERFINISHED
Umuzi NERFINISHED
settingCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingLocation Chicago NERFINISHED
settingPeriod 1990s
20th century
shortlistedFor 2013 British Fantasy Award NERFINISHED
2013 CWA Gold Dagger NERFINISHED
theme fate versus free will
power and obsession
trauma and survival
violence against women

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Lauren Beukes notableWork The Shining Girls
Lauren Beukes wrote The Shining Girls
Lauren Beukes wrote The Shining Girls
this entity surface form: The Shining Girls: A Novel