Beukes, who has done an unusual amount of research, captures the inky, curmudgeonly spirit of a newsroom perfectly. And the biggest part of her story unfolds in 1992, when she wangles her way into an internship at The Chicago Sun-Times. The little girl from 1974 turns out to be this novel’s indefatigable heroine, Kirby Mazrachi. The Irish writer Tana French, no slouch at transfixing and scaring readers, may have spoken for us all when she said of this expert hair-raiser: “It creeped the holy bejasus out of me.” Beukes is a South African whose earlier works have been closer to hard-core science fiction, but “The Shining Girls” is pure thriller. Thus begins “The Shining Girls,” Lauren Beukes’s strong contender for the role of this summer’s universal beach read. “Look out for me, O.K., sweetheart? I’ll come back for you.” Thirteen years later he does. “I’ll see you when you’re all grown-up,” he promises.
He would hurt her too, but little girls bore him. She shows him the bumblebee that, in her imagination, is a lion.
A precocious little girl is playing outdoors with a toy circus she’s built when a spooky gent with a limp approaches her.
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