Butterfly

by John Delacourt

Lucien and Nataša might have slipped toward love, if her past in Sarajevo hadn’t caught up with her. Nataša finds work modeling for a painter in Toronto, but he is murdered. Nataša disappears that night, running for her life. Her vanishing is connected to the discovery of a video, secretly filmed in a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. Butterfly is a novel that charts a controlled descent through the dark legacy of war and the underbelly of the global art scene … into a world ruled by a desperate hope for impossible redemption.

219 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 16, 2019

About the author

https://jdelacourt.com/
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Reviews

[AB Maclean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully written descriptions of the inner thoughts of both the main and supporting characters. I found it hard to put down. It’s not a story for everyone though because the subject matter is extremely sad.

[Denis Coupal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the captivating novel BUTTERFLY by John Delacourt this weekend, published by Linda Leith Publishing in the same March 2019 cohort as BLINDSHOT. Much enjoyed the razor sharp writing, the intellectual fabric of the book, the first-person ruminations of each of the main characters, and the spiraling plot, densifying at each chapter, embracing a constructivist aesthetic. The details throughout the book are a joy. BUTTERFLY is beautiful. Congratulations, John Delacourt, on great work.

[Dan Lalande · Rating 3 out of 5]

Indie author Delacourt offers up a sufficiently intriguing thriller, wherein an innocent academic falls for a mysterious Bosnian beauty entangled in art forgery, war crimes, and of course, murder. It suffers from a journalist's limited talent for description and dialogue but compensates with a showy disposition for pace, milieu, and polyperspectivity.

[James Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent literary-crime novel that involves art forgeries, the Bosnian War and Natasa, who is trying to escape it all, but knows too much. Fascinating story developments told from the viewpoint of multiple characters. The full review is here: http://bit.ly/ButterflyJDelacourt

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

I failed to work up any interest in this book. Too many points of view.

[Noelle Walsh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was one that was, at times, hard to read. Its layers make quite a story. art forgery, murder and war are among the topics incorporated into this story. It isn't a story for the "faint-of-heart" due to the subject matter brought up in the context of the story but it is one that can be enjoyed it you enjoy books like this one.