{"product_id":"9781612196220","title":"The Monster's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eSomewhere 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 …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle Pretorius’s epic debut weaves present and past together into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller that calls to mind Lauren Beukes’s \u003ci\u003eThe Shining Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and Tana French’s \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Place\u003c\/i\u003e. With an explosive conclusion, it marks the emergence of a thrilling new writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018546594032,"sku":"9781612196220","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612196220_p0.jpg?v=1763845231","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612196220","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}