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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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Every now and again you get a book you just can’t put down. This is one of those. I have listened to lots of books but never felt like sharing a review - but had to share how good this book is.
Original storyline, characters have depth and believability. Narrators were well suited for the roles, unpredictable and interesting plot. Could not stop listening.
Enjoyed immensely and will listen again. Now to listen to the second in the series.

Unputdownable!!

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‘For want of a nail the city is lost’
Bad choice of narrator in Mel Foster.
I very nearly gave up on this solely due to Mel Foster’s awful narration. just about every vocal inflection is wrong and the transition between Lauren Ezzo’s sensitive interpretation and Mel’s third grade drama class style is grating.
The story is very good, well written, disturbing yet compelling.
Would have been much improved if it was narrated by Lauen Ezzo alone.
I am pleased I didn’t give up but Mel Foster is on my list of narrators to avoid at all cost.

For want of a nail...

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I loved the way the story gradually unfolded as an interview. there are a lot of deep ethical questions being asked throighout the story. I just couldn't put it down.

intriguing

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This story is told in turns by a girl who has been kidnapped, tortured, and lived to tell the tale, and by the detective trying to unravel a massive tangle of crimes going back many years. Who are the girls, why were they taken, who took them and why, and most importantly, how did they get out!?

This is a beautifully told, multi layered tale. Full of the relationships that build between people in a terrible situation and those who put them there. The detective is trying to unravel it all by talking to the girl who seems to have become a leader amongst the brutalised, as the others all wont or cant talk to him. Sensitive, complex, and some nice twists along the way, just how I like my crime.

Really gripping story, not for the faint hearted!

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Really enjoyed this book, will definitely read/listen to more from Dot Hutchinson. Great story line.

Really enjoyed it

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