The Shining Girls is creepy. Really creepy. Think of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife where the time traveler, Harper, is a spooky serial killer instead of a romantic. At the beginning of the novel, he is being hunted down by an angry mob – it is 1931 – for his “accidental” killing of a man. He finds himself drawn to this seemingly dilapidated house on a quiet street and a series of coincidences finds the key to this House (yes, capital letter) in his coat pocket. Once inside, he finds a shrine of “shining” talismans – items his soul recognizes as belonging to the girls he knows he will kill. When he opens the front door of the house again, it opens to a different year and he is drawn to these “shining girls” that he proceeds to stalk through time and, eventually, brutally murder. Kirby is one such girl, encountering Harper a time or two before she finds herself his victim. But Kirby accidentally survives his attack and is determined to track down her would-be killer. She teams ups with a semi-disgraced journalist and starts her own investigation. Although at times I found the time travel a bit confusing – or nonsensical – I HAD to know what happened. This is one of those stay-up-too-late and leave-the-light-on reads.