Butterfly on the Storm: Heartland Trilogy Book 1 (Heartland Trilogy, 1) - Softcover

Lucius, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140592134X ISBN 13: 9781405921343

Publisher: Penguin, 2017

Synopsis

'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' The Times

** The first instalment in the bestselling original Dutch thriller**

Haunted by a past you can never escape . . .

When a young boy from Afghanistan is the victim of a brutal hit-and-run in woods outside Amsterdam journalist Farah Hafez visits the scene, seeking to discover how a child from her homeland ended up here. Instead, she finds a burnt-out car and two bodied - sinister clues to a far darker mystery.
It is the beginning of a journey that leads her into an intricate web of crime and corruption stretching across Europe and deep into a past that Farah had once sought to escape - a past that nearly killed her.

And if she goes back will she ever make it out again?

Butterfly on the Storm is the first mystery to unravel in a tense, explosive and gripping new trilogy you won't want to put down. For lovers of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, this fast-paced crime novel will be this year's page-turner.

Praise for Walter Lucius

'Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping' Dutch Daily De Limburger

'Riveting until the very end' AD Weekend [Dutch Newspaper]

'The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers' BB Boekblad

About this title

Review:

Journalist Farah Hafez embarks on a journey that will lead her into an intricate web of crime and corruption in the start of a new Dutch trilogy which has drawn parallels with Stieg Larsson's Millennium series (from publisher's description)

Ambitious, intricate, riveting

(The Times)

It's been compared to Stieg Larsson's Millennium series ... Butterfly on the Storm is a compelling, engrossing read ... Walter Lucius is one to watch (Nudge)

Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping (Dutch Daily De Limburger)

Riveting until the very end (AD Weekend [Dutch Newspaper])

The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers (BB Boekblad)

From the Back Cover:

A young boy is left for dead on the side of a lonely road on the outskirts of Amsterdam. A burnt-out car containing two bodies is found nearby.

Journalist Farah Hafez is determined to uncover what has happened - no matter who tries to stop her.

Detective Joshua Calvino is sure that his partner is hiding something. But is it just about this case or sinister clues to a far darker mystery?

This one nameless child holds the key to exposing an intricate web of crime and corruption that stretches across the globe. As Farah embarks on a dangerous journey that takes her out of her country and deep into her own past, will she be able to stop it, before someone stops her?

Butterfly on the Storm is the first in a tense, atmospheric and gripping new Dutch trilogy which has drawn comparisons with Stieg Larsson's Millennium series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 140592134X
• ISBN 13: 9781405921343
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528