Katniss Hsiao is a young novelist and screenwriter. She has a BA in History from National Taiwan University. A lifelong reader of crime fiction and film buff, Katniss currently works for a film production company. Before We Were Monsters is her debut novel, and has been sold and translated into nearly ten languages so far.
Highlights
Before We Were Monsters
成為怪物以前
Fiction
Eve is a young and quiet crime scene cleaner. A former “super smeller”, she lost her sense of smell after a tragic incident, only to have it come alive at scenes of death and decomposition. One night, she is tasked to cleaning up a suicide, not knowing it was a murder scene. With all trace evidence gone, she becomes the police’s top suspect. Evoking the best of Patrick Suskind, Thomas Harris, and Mariana Enriquez, this is a dark, searing, astonishingly confident debut that announces the arrival of a major crime writer.
Publisher: Ink ISBN: 9789863875772 384 pages|14.8 x 21 cm Rights Contact: Jade Fu (The Grayhawk Agency) jade@grayhawk-agency.com
★Rights sold: Russian, Polish, Vietnamese, German, French, Thai, Turkish, and Arabic ★Award: Nominated for 2022 Taiwan Literature Awards, Nominated for 2023 TIBE Book Prize, Official “Shoot the Book” Selection at Cannes
★TV Rights Sold (Outland Film), in Development ★ Taiwan’s Bestselling Crime Debut of 2022