Books like The butterfly garden by Dot Hutchison

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

A historical mystery set in 18th-century London that explores themes of women's empowerment and time travel in a twist of fate, featuring a precocious girl solving centuries-old murders.

Glasgow’s underbelly is rocked when a small‑time heroin dealer is found dead, forcing a detective and an aspiring actress/private‑investigator to chase tangled clues and a missing mentor.

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A husband-and-wife treasure‑hunter duo chase a vanished Romanov ransom across Europe, North Africa, and South America, confronting a neo‑Nazi clan seeking to revive a Fourth Reich.

In the 1950s, a plain secretary discovers a hidden side of New York’s Barbizon Hotel for Women, while a modern journalist unravels the dark secrets of its past, forcing both women to confront truths that change their lives.

When an encounter at Heathrow turns into a murderous plan, the tangled lives of Ted Severson, his wife Miranda, and a mysterious stranger collide across continents, forcing each to decide whether to pursue their own violent course or to protect their futures.

Mrs. Connor's first-graders come to life in Robin Hill School’s butterfly garden, witnessing caterpillars’ slow metamorphosis into butterflies.

A retired college professor takes it upon himself to rescue a teenage girl kidnapped and tormented by a sadistic pair whose brutal acts are livestreamed online, following a police investigation that stalls.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Former Miami detective Max Mingus faces a deadly hunt for a kidnapped boy in Haiti, confronting voodoo myths, corruption, and his own past as he pursues the enigmatic Mr. Clarinet.

David Raker, a skeptical missing‑persons investigator, reluctantly takes on the cold case of Alex Towne, whose body was found a year after his disappearance. As Raker digs into Alex’s hidden past, he uncovers secrets that men will kill to keep secret, forcing him to confront what truly lies beyond death.

A gripping Swedish‑Danish thriller where a missing justice minister and a murdered Danish TV star set off a race to solve a conspiracy that ties crime, missing persons and body‑part killings.

When high‑school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald vanish at a beach party, one escapes and becomes a bestseller; the other remains missing, sparking a relentless investigation.