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Dec 12, 2014 broken monsters by lauren beukes genre. The new thriller from lauren beukes, author of the shining girls. Detective gabriella versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this o. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. When boiled down to its most basic elements broken monsters lays somewhere near the intersection of mystery and thriller with the majority of the focus on the murder investigation involving a young boy whose.
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