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´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

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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

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Lucius, Walter
Walter Lucius is the pseudonym of screenwriter, director and producer Walter Goverde. Walter used to be a stage director, and has produced dramas, documentaries and various television series as well. He has also founded Odyssee Producties, an audio-visual company with which he has carried out several projects for a number of Dutch government ministries. Walter lives in Amsterdam.

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