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The Butterfly Garden

The Collector, Book 1

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The Butterfly Garden

By: Dot Hutchison
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Mel Foster
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.

In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious “butterflies” - young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself.

As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding...

©2016 Dot Hutchison (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Fiction Crime Disappearance Exciting Scary Mystery Women's Fiction
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Fascinating, intriguing, gentle and brutal. An hypnotic Danse Macabre that genuinely surprised me. They say never judge a book by its cover and well in this case you should beware the innocent sounding title as well! Hidden behind it is as twisted a story as you’re ever likely to read. There is insanity, brutality and the extinction of hope yet the quality of the writing within and the ultra-smooth delivery of Lauren Ezzo lead you on an almost surreally tranquil journey through the story's stark landscape.

The book is structured around an interview of one of the survivors of the garden. It’s a clever device which actually works better than I expected and gives the book a good rhythm without disrupting the flow. Foster’s gruffness provides a growling counterpoint to the smooth narrative sections from within the garden. There are some lighter, very human moments as the relationship between the FBI agents and the girl develops. There are also some surprisingly gentle interactions within the beautiful yet horrific world created by The Gardener.

For all those gentle touches though this book deals with the disturbing including moments of extreme cruelty. It really is no light holiday fiction for all the delicateness of its title and moments of genuine humanity. What it is, is a darnn good read though. If you have the fortitude to enter these dark places and appreciate the good writing you find when you get in there then you’ll find this a genuine treat from Dot Hutchison.

An Hypnotic Danse Macabre

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Not for the faint hearted.

I would like to know what made Dot Hutchison write such a deeply disturbing story. But wrote it in such gentle poetic way, it’s almost an oxymoron.

This will remain with me for a while, and every time I see butterfly’s.

Poetic writing of a deeply disturbing tale.

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A few things I didn't expect. The narration is okay but the guy has a weird twang to his American accent.

Twists

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It took me a good 30 minutes to get into the book, but once in I was hooked. A great listen. The male narrator was jarring at first, after he spoke a few times I got used to it. He sounded jolly which I got used to.
I haven't read anything by Dot before, I'll be looking for more.

Excellent tale

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At first one cannot like the main character as she appears too abrasive but slowly her strengths start to show against the brutally, oppresive life she is made to live. The main abuser is so well narrated that one is almost lulled into a sense of false security. An amazingly imaginative story that, of course, could in reality be repeated many times throughout the world. The interviewing technique by the FBI was an interesting twist on how to tell a story. I felt the tale slid a little towards the end therefore only 4 stars.

Amazing,challenging and disturbing

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