Lauren Beukes. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-21685-2
South African author Beukes, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Zoo City, adds an intriguing wrinkle to the serial killer suspense novel. In the creepy opening chapter, set in 1974, sadist Harper Curtis, who’s on the prowl for one of his “shini
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Lauren Beukes. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-0-316-21682-1
Set in present-day Detroit, Beukes’s novel of suspense successfully combines horror, detection, and a depressing examination of urban decay. In a bizarre murder, an 11-year-old boy has been cut in two, his upper body grafted onto the lower half of a
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Lauren Beukes. Mulholland, $15.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-26791-5
A Big Brotherly corporation provides public services for a Cape Town beset by a bad economy and plague-ridden slums in this reissue, an intriguing if somewhat shapeless near-future novel from South African author Beukes (Zoo City). The four leading...
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Lauren Beukes. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61696-240-1
In this hard-hitting collection, South African author Beukes (Broken Monsters) mixes present-day realism with science fiction, and flash fiction with personal essays. These are not nice stories. The characters bleed and sometimes die; those who don’t
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Lauren Beukes. Mulholland, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-26783-0
In this intriguing and all too timely near-future thriller from South African author Beukes (The Shining Girls), human culgoa virus, “a highly contagious flu that turns into an aggressive prostate cancer in men and boys,” kills more than 99% of the...
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Lauren Beukes, read by Christine Lakin et al. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.5 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-1-4789-3010-5
The multiple narrators of Buekes’s enthralling and totally creepy novel present a complex but ultimately satisfying listening experience. Detroit detective Gabriella Versado is investigating the murder of a young boy, whose torso was found fused to...
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