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The Butcher Game

The Butcher Game
  • Author(s): Alaina Urquhart
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

From the New York Times bestselling author and cohost of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in her national bestselling series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner...

The Butcher of Benares

The Butcher of Benares
  • Author(s): Jakhar Mahendra
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The shocking and brutal murder of a young American woman rips apart the peace of the ancient city of Benares. She is found to be a research scientist working with the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research...

The Butcher of Casablanca

The Butcher of Casablanca
  • Author(s): Abdelilah Hamdouchi
  • Location(s): Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer knows exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence that could lead them to identify his victims. Fear spreads throughout the city as...

The Butcher’s Block: A Dan Foster Mystery

The Butcher’s Block: A Dan Foster Mystery
  • Author(s): Lucienne Boyce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1797

During a routine patrol, police arrest two men in possession of human body parts which are intended for sale to the dissecting rooms of a London teaching hospital. Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist Dan Foster makes the grisly...

The Butcher’s Wife

The Butcher’s Wife
  • Author(s): Li Ang
  • Location(s): Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Chen Jiangshui is a pig-butcher in a small coastal Taiwanese town. Stocky, with a paunch and deep-set beady eyes, he resembles a pig himself. His brutality towards his new young wife, Lin Shi, knows no bounds. The more she...

The Butchers

The Butchers
  • Author(s): Ruth Gilligan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, a meat...

The Butterfly House

The Butterfly House
  • Author(s): Katrine Engberg
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the coronary care unit at one of Copenhagen’s leading medical centres, a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of an older male patient. Six days earlier, a paperboy on...

The Butterfly Hunter

The Butterfly Hunter
  • Author(s): A B Stone
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): present day

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, Klara Brandt discovers that the man responsible for the brutal massacre of her family when she was a child in Germany is still alive. Her thirst for vengeance compels...

The Butterfly Lion

The Butterfly Lion
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo, Christian Birmingham (illustrator)
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion. “All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.” Bertie rescues...

The Butterfly Lion (Illustrated Edition)

The Butterfly Lion (Illustrated Edition)
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo, Christian Birmingham (illustrator)
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the stunning, classic story of an unforgettable friendship with a glorious colour gift edition, fully illustrated by Christian Birmingham. “All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget...

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