Monster's Daughter

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. From the Hardcover edition.

Undeva pe sudul Africii Sud, 1901: La apogeul razboiului boer, un doctor dintr-un lagar de concentrare britanic efectueaza o serie de experimente sumbre asupra prizonierilor boeri. Opera sa se incheie in haos, dar doi copii supravietuiesc: un baiat pe nume Benjamin si o fata pe nume Tessa ...