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Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes (San Francisco Chronicle).
Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.
At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder -- until one of his victims survives.
Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . .
“Utterly original, beautifully written, and I must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something special.” —Tana French
©2013 Lauren Beukes (P)2013 Hachette AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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AND HERE'S A SIX PENCE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-18-15
By: M. R. James
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Bridge
- A Novel of Suspense
- By: Lauren Beukes
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Bridget Kittinger has always been paralyzed by choices. It has a lot to do with growing up in the long shadow of her mother, Jo, a troubled neuroscientist. Jo’s obsession with one mythical object, the “dreamworm”—which she believed enabled travel to other worlds—led to their estrangement. Now, suddenly, Jo is dead. And in packing up her home, Bridge finds a strange device buried deep in Jo’s freezer: the dreamworm. Against all odds, it actually can open the door—to all other realities, and to all other versions of herself, too.
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Not So Bad
- By Gayle Allen on 09-07-23
By: Lauren Beukes
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Sorrowland
- A Novel
- By: Rivers Solomon
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes.
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This Book Was Written For Me
- By Legend F on 06-23-21
By: Rivers Solomon
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Yard Work
- By: David Koepp
- Narrated by: Kevin Bacon
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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This wasn’t the plan. Judge Herman Calvert, 88, never thought he’d outlive his beloved wife, Marie. Yet now he finds himself alone, a grieving widower, desperate for escape from the home they built together, where every turn brings a painful reminder of his late wife. So the judge retreats to his lake cabin in rural Wisconsin, a place where an old man can find peace and solitude. A place where nature can take its course. But something new has moved in.
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Depicting Grief's Worst Entaglements
- By Amazing on 09-03-20
By: David Koepp
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The Yellow Wallpaper
- By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Narrated by: Jo Myddleton
- Length: 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.
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A Visceral Reaction
- By Em on 05-02-12
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Baby Teeth
- A Novel
- By: Zoje Stage
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Suzette knows her clever and manipulative seven-year-old daughter doesn’t love her. She can see the hatred and jealousy in her eyes. And as Hanna’s subtle acts of cruelty threaten to tear her and her husband apart, Suzette fears her very life may be in grave danger....
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Immediately Gripping
- By T on 07-18-18
By: Zoje Stage
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Dread Nation
- By: Justina Ireland
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.
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The Dead Are Never Lonely
- By Cynthia on 05-15-18
By: Justina Ireland
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The Lesser Dead
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live - and die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody - he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks.
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NICE GUYS NEARLY ALWAYS FINISH LAST
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-27-17
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The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- By: Jack Finney
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovers an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loves, and the world as he knows it.
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GOOD READ
- By Randall on 04-25-09
By: Jack Finney
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Catchers
- By: Ben Rock, Bob DeRosa
- Narrated by: Billy Gardell, Herizen Guardiola, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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In Buck Lake, Colorado, the resident dog catcher, Collins, is on the verge of retirement. But something strange lurks in the woods, about to ruin his plans.... After 30 years, Collins is ready to be done with small-town animal control. His replacement, Blair, is a Gen Z vet student who hates mansplaining; they don’t get along. But on the eve of his retirement, Collins gets a call that changes everything. There’s been a report of a vicious wild dog on the loose.
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I want more!
- By alex wolf on 10-28-22
By: Ben Rock, and others
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White Horse
- A Novel
- By: Erika T. Wurth
- Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Kari James, Urban Native, is a fan of heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and dive bars. She spends most of her time at her favorite spot in Denver, the White Horse. When her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari’s mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother’s ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable. Haunted by visions of her mother and hunted by this mysterious creature, Kari must search for what happened to her mother all those years ago.
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Great narrator
- By Martin on 06-25-24
By: Erika T. Wurth
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The Monkey's Paw
- By: W. W. Jacobs
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sergeant Major Morris brings a mummified monkey’s paw to the White family, they embrace it as a morbid curiosity. When they learn that an old Fakir has enchanted the paw, they continue to treat the thing lightly. But the workings of the paw, once set in motion, cannot be undone, no matter what they try.
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Quick Spook
- By The Kindler on 09-28-16
By: W. W. Jacobs
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The Return
- By: Rachel Harrison
- Narrated by: Sarah Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return - except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she’s been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong - she’s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites.
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Great climax.
- By Amazon Customer on 03-25-20
By: Rachel Harrison
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Her Body and Other Parties
- Stories
- By: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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Beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 11-17-17
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A great read
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#SerialKiller #TimeTravel #tagsgiving and #sweepstakes
Time Travel Serial Killer Tale
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If you like gory horror novels, you will devour this one.
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Gruesome
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Would you listen to The Shining Girls again? Why?
Yes! The story line was so compelling. There were also so many details that it would be worth listening again to get more of those I may have missed.What about the narrators’s performance did you like?
I loved that there were so many narrators. I felt like I was right there with them as they spoke. The variety of narrators made the story so much more real.Any additional comments?
I listen to audio books during my 1-hour commute twice per day. This book made me wish my commute were longer so i could keep listening. I didn't want to put it away.Best Audible Experience Ever!
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Great read!
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Five hours into the book is when you really appreciate the world building. The last three hours are a rollercoaster ride and the ending is perfect.
Smart, scary and a must have.
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Immediately started over for second listen
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totally captivating
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