Butterfly on the Storm: Heartland Trilogy Book 1

'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

''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

• | Author: Walter Lucius
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Sep 07, 2017
• | Number of Pages:
• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781405921343
• | ISBN-10: 140592134X