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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Really enjoyed this book!
A unique storyline with cadre of good people, including, oddly enough, ex-con Luke Palmer, who was charged with three murders. On the other side is a band of truly evil people run by a ruthless Mexican Mafia boss. Sean, a former Seal and Police Officer, stumbles upon a car hijacking in a parking lot and prevents it. The local police slow walk the …
predictable and not realistic
Creepy, graphic and gory, twisted characters. Couldn’t finish it since I read before bed time and didn’t want this lingering in my mind before sleep.
Was boring could not get past the first five chapters!
Loved the whole series
Holds your attention close. Very interesting and lots of twists and turns
A good summer read.
Tom Lowe is an amazing word smith! His descriptions are very visual and his one liner philosophic comments are ones to remember. His character Sean is believable, not some super man macho with 1/2 a brain, but smart, intuitive and caring. I am going through the whole series of “Sean O’Brian” and thoroughly enjoy them and look forward to each …