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In the Acknowledgements of Lauren Beukes's third novel, The Shining Girls, the South African novelist thanks «a crack team of researchers» for «digging up information, out-of-print books, videos, photographs and personal histories.» There has been a short and busy few years between Beukes's Clarke Award-winning Zoo City (2010) and this global behemoth, in which she has been the subject of a publishing bidding war and presumably the pressures that go with a six-figure sum. Her researchers have delivered the data Beukes no doubt needed to switch suddenly from the fascinating local Cape Town color of her early science fictional novels to the grim Chicago noir of this bloody slasher-cum-thriller. The problem is that it has been applied rather anxiously.

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