Saturday Showcase (January 4)

ss

Saturday Showcase is a weekly event hosted here at The In-Between Place which features books that you wish more people had read (or, at least, heard about).

This week’s featured book is The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison.

Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she’s learned to cope by collecting (sometimes even stealing) quirky trinkets and souvenirs in each new place–possessions that allow her to feel at least some semblance of home.

But in the year since her brother Oren’s death, Lo’s hoarding has blossomed into a full-blown, potentially dangerous obsession. She discovers a beautiful, antique butterfly pendant during a routine scour at a weekend flea market, and recognizes it as having been stolen from the home of a recently murdered girl known only as “Sapphire”–a girl just a few years older than Lo. As usual when Lo begins to obsess over something, she can’t get the murder out of her mind.

As she attempts to piece together the mysterious “butterfly clues,” with the unlikely help of a street artist named Flynt, Lo quickly finds herself caught up in a seedy, violent underworld much closer to home than she ever imagined–a world, she’ll ultimately discover, that could hold the key to her brother’s tragic death.

The Butterfly Clues is a thrilling, original mystery that provides insight on the human condition in a way that I hadn’t seen before — by allowing the reader to see the world through the eyes of someone with obsessive compulsive disorder. It’s beautifully written and captivating, and I can’t recommend it enough.

What are some of your favourite underrated books? Leave a list in the comments below.
3

Previous Post
Next Post

Leave a Reply

CommentLuv badge

%d bloggers like this: