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Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldnt put it down...Id grab it if I were you. --Stephen King A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukess new genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroits standards half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If youre Detective Versados geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If youre desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If youre Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, youll 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.
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Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comicswriter and occasional journalist.She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in afantastical Johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars. Herprevious works include Moxyland, a dystopian cyberpunk thriller set in CapeTown under corporate apartheid. She helped create South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: TheAdventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids animated shows for DisneyUK and Millimages in France.Follow her on Twitter: @laurenbeukesPhoto Casey Crafford
