The Monster's Daughter Author:Michelle Pretorius 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 t... more »he sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a young 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.« less