The Shining Girls

"In her first book set in the U.S., South African novelist Lauren Beukes defies genre, and she dazzles as she does it. The Shining Girls is a murder mystery, thriller and time travel puzzle all in one. A young girl is left for dead in a brutal and seemingly motiveless attack. An itinerant miscreant steps through the door of a menacing house. As their stories converge (through decades and different locales) to a terrifying climax, the reader also meets a group of women — each ordinary and yet each a chillingly, and fatefully, designated “Shining Girl.”"