6/10/2023 0 Comments Broken beautiful monstersIt’s Murder Bingo! But even violence has its creative limits. Bludgeoning with a blunt instrument, sharp instrument, no instrument at all when bare knuckles will do. So do bodies, even in all their variations. Words lose their meaning when you repeat them. I couldn’t put it down…I’d grab it if I were you.” - Stephen King Read Excerpt If Lauren Beukes’s internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again. If you’re Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you’ll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe - and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world. If you’re desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you’re Detective Versado’s geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? But this one is unique even by Detroit’s standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes’s genre-bending novel of suspense.ĭetective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies.
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