Broken Monsters

Monsters is a dark and gripping thriller about the death of the American Dream, online fame and creativity.
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Title: Broken Monsters
Author: Lauren Beukes
Genre: Crime Novel
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Umuzi
Cape Town, South Africa 2014
ISBN 9781415202005 / ISBN 978-1-41-520200-5
Softcover, 14 x 22 cm, 285 pages

About: Broken Monsters

In a broken city, a disturbed killer ist trying to remake the world in his image. 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. And it’s only the first. As winter closes in on Detroit, strange and disturbing corpses start turning up in unusual places, pulling several lives into the killer’s orbit. Gabi has to juggle the most harrowing case of her career with being a single mom to her troubled teen daughter Layla. Layla, egged on by her best friend Cas, is playing a dangerous game with an online predator. Broken Monsters is a dark and gripping thriller about the death of the American Dream, online fame, creativity, compromise and the undercurrents of the world we live in right now.

Lauren Beukes is the author of Zoo City, a black-magic noir set in Johannesburg that won the Arthur C Clarke Award and was long-listed for the Dublin impac prize; Moxyland, a corporate apartheid thriller; Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past; and the international hit The Shining Girls. She’s worked in journalism, satire, documentary-making and children’s tv, and writes comics for DC Vertigo. She lives in Cape Town with her husband and daughter.