Broken Monsters

A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's 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 you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. 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 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. "Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down...I'd grab it if I were you." -- Stephen King

Megan Abbott, author of The Fever and Dare Me

"With Broken Monsters, the wildly talented Lauren Beukes has created a darkly majestic jewel of a novel, surpassing even The Shining Girls (no mean feat). Part harrowing thriller, part urban-Grimm's fairytale, but always filled with a deeply affecting humanity, Broken Monsters is the kind of book you'll find yourself pressing into the hands of everyone you know so they can experience it too."

Ivy Pochoda, author of Visitation Street PRAISE FOR LAUREN BEUKES:

"Broken Monsters is a show-stopping story of a city trying to rise from its own ashes, its inhabitants struggling with their own demons, and monster working to shape the world to match his most disturbing visions. It's beautiful, horrifying, thrilling, and most impressive of all, possessed of a deep and remarkable compassion. I wish I'd written it."

Gillian Flynn, O: The Oprah Magazine

"Lauren Beukes has got an intriguing style of dealing with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it."

Charles Finch, USA Today PRAISE FOR THE SHINING GIRLS:

"Lauren Beukes is so profusely talented--capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page--that a blockbuster seems inevitable."

Entertainment Weekly

"Wildly inventive"

San Francisco Chronicle

"Expertly chilling"

Time

"Astonishing"

Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio

"A triumph"

Chicago Sun-Times

"One of the scariest and best-written thrillers of the year"

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