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9781612195384 English 1612195385 "At once a shocking, unputdownable thriller and a brilliantly imagined journey through South Africa's troubled history, The Monster's Daughter is one of the most original and exciting debuts since Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. December 2010. A disgraced young constable named Alet Berg is reassigned to the sleepy provincial town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a young woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads Alet into her country's violent past:a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official who may have played a sinister role during the long, brutal apartheid regime. A hundred years earlier, at the height of the Boer War, a doctor conducts a series of vicious experiments near a British concentration camp, where he intends to breed a new master race. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa. And they are not like other children. The horrors of South Africa's history and the tensions of its present converge in Michelle Pretorius's epic debut, which weaves present and past into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller with echoes of the fantastical. A novel that calls to mind Lauren Beukes's The Shining Girls and Tana French's The Secret Place , The Monster's Daughter will surprise and satisfy you all the way up to its explosive conclusion.", A riveting historical thriller rich with shocking, fantastical twists In a gripping tale of race and murder, "The Monster's Daughter "takes us on a searing yet spellbinding journey through the treacherous history of South Africa, in one of the most original and exciting debuts since "The Time Traveler's Wife." After a fling with one of her superiors, young policewoman Alet Berg is reassigned from her big city beat to a small village in the country, where she makes a horrific discovery: the body of a young woman, burned beyond recognition. It immediately proves a tough case: none of the villagers are willing to speak, easpecially to a transplant from the city whose stubbornness rubs even her colleagues the wrong way. And meanwhile what Alet doesn't know may kill her: The murder has its roots in the Boer War, over a century before, when a doctor at an internment camp conducteda series of vicious medical experiments in pursuit of a simple, terrifying goal: the creation of a master race to rule South Africa. The darkness of South Africa's past and the brutality of its present converge in Michelle Pretorius's ambitious debut thriller. Hugely suspenseful and masterfully plotted, "The Monster's Daughter" will surprise you all the way up to explosive conclusion.", Somewhere on the South African veld, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentration camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa ... One hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past--a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official under the apartheid regime, and the children left behind in that long ago concentration camp. Michelle Pretorius's epic debut weaves present and past together into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller that calls to mind Lauren Beukes's The Shining Girls and Tana French's The Secret Place . With an explosive conclusion, it marks the emergence of a thrilling new writer., Somewhere on the South African veldt, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentraion camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa One hundred years later, a disgraced young polce constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official under the apartheid regime, and the children left behind in that long ago concentration camp. Michelle Pretorius s epic debut weaves present and past together into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller that calls to mind Lauren Beukes s "The Shining Girls" and Tana French s "The Secret Place." With an explosive conclusion, it marks the emergence of a thrilling new writer."
9781612195384 English 1612195385 "At once a shocking, unputdownable thriller and a brilliantly imagined journey through South Africa's troubled history, The Monster's Daughter is one of the most original and exciting debuts since Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. December 2010. A disgraced young constable named Alet Berg is reassigned to the sleepy provincial town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a young woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads Alet into her country's violent past:a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official who may have played a sinister role during the long, brutal apartheid regime. A hundred years earlier, at the height of the Boer War, a doctor conducts a series of vicious experiments near a British concentration camp, where he intends to breed a new master race. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa. And they are not like other children. The horrors of South Africa's history and the tensions of its present converge in Michelle Pretorius's epic debut, which weaves present and past into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller with echoes of the fantastical. A novel that calls to mind Lauren Beukes's The Shining Girls and Tana French's The Secret Place , The Monster's Daughter will surprise and satisfy you all the way up to its explosive conclusion.", A riveting historical thriller rich with shocking, fantastical twists In a gripping tale of race and murder, "The Monster's Daughter "takes us on a searing yet spellbinding journey through the treacherous history of South Africa, in one of the most original and exciting debuts since "The Time Traveler's Wife." After a fling with one of her superiors, young policewoman Alet Berg is reassigned from her big city beat to a small village in the country, where she makes a horrific discovery: the body of a young woman, burned beyond recognition. It immediately proves a tough case: none of the villagers are willing to speak, easpecially to a transplant from the city whose stubbornness rubs even her colleagues the wrong way. And meanwhile what Alet doesn't know may kill her: The murder has its roots in the Boer War, over a century before, when a doctor at an internment camp conducteda series of vicious medical experiments in pursuit of a simple, terrifying goal: the creation of a master race to rule South Africa. The darkness of South Africa's past and the brutality of its present converge in Michelle Pretorius's ambitious debut thriller. Hugely suspenseful and masterfully plotted, "The Monster's Daughter" will surprise you all the way up to explosive conclusion.", Somewhere on the South African veld, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentration camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa ... One hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past--a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official under the apartheid regime, and the children left behind in that long ago concentration camp. Michelle Pretorius's epic debut weaves present and past together into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller that calls to mind Lauren Beukes's The Shining Girls and Tana French's The Secret Place . With an explosive conclusion, it marks the emergence of a thrilling new writer., Somewhere on the South African veldt, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentraion camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa One hundred years later, a disgraced young polce constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official under the apartheid regime, and the children left behind in that long ago concentration camp. Michelle Pretorius s epic debut weaves present and past together into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller that calls to mind Lauren Beukes s "The Shining Girls" and Tana French s "The Secret Place." With an explosive conclusion, it marks the emergence of a thrilling new writer."