He hid the old pencil-drawn map for 40 years.The guards never found it.After 40 years in San Quentin, Luke Palmer leaves with a state-issued suit, $100 dollars to buy a bus ticket, and a map that will lead to a promise and into the heart of a dark forest. “The Butterfly Forest is a high-octane thriller that is part mystery, part love story, and full bore great storytelling that you’ll think about … storytelling that you’ll think about days after you’ve left the woods.”
– John Davenport (Orlando, FL)
College graduate student Molly Monroe is about to release rare butterflies not far from where the FBI used 4,000 bullets in a shootout to kill Ma Barker and one of her gangster sons in 1935. Molly snaps a picture that will frame something she never sees coming.
Sean O’Brien does see something — a predator. Between the sea of cars in a Walmart parking lot. Walking quickly. Stalking two women.
As O’Brien tries to prevent the abduction, he opens the door to a new relationship. And he opens a dark door to a horror that is secluded within the forest. He follows veiled tracks that lead him farther into the woods where an evil from the past intersects with a frightening presence to form a volatile trap with only one way out.
“ABSOLUTELY MESMERIZING!!!!!”
– Anthony B. Thomas (Louisville, KY)
“If you like the works of writers like Lee Child, Robert Crais, James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly, you’ll enjoy Tom Lowe’s THE BUTTERFLY FOREST.”
– Aaron Winters (Miami, FL)
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This is the first novel of author Tom Lowe I have read, and I could not stop reading! The suspense during the events in the story is believable and holds your interest. The main characters are well developed for the purpose of telling this story, not just add-ins.
It is …
Tom Lowe is one of my favorite authors. His settings are great and his characters realistic. He always provides a good book and this is one of them.
Very Well written and captivating story about a drug lord, butterflies and murder!
I loved The Butterfly Forest and highly recommend it.
Good reading !
Great mystery!
A quick and easy mystery, yet created the heavy atmosphere of intrigue in this Sean O’Brien series (the first I read by Thomas Lowe). The author’s description of bearded moss cypress, canopied forests, and sleepy marinas , gave visuals of the surroundings. It was edgy realism as he was not afraid to ‘lose characters’ to tragedy, thus forcing …
Loved the story and the intrigue
Really enjoyed reading this book liked the character’s
Keeps you guessing
Well written and held my interest from beginning to end.
This was a very good book.
Wasagoodbook.
Did not want to put it down!
Excellent read. Very suspenseful.
This was a fantastic book. Loved the info re butterflies and their food source.
Great book. Couldn’t put down. Well written. Energy never stops
Planning to read others in the series
I liked the venue and the characters (not the usual same old).
I loved this book. It was so well written, and kept me glued to it all the way through.
I wish more writers could do as well. Thank You.