The Night Butterflies: a short story

✍ Scribed by Zoe Sharp

• Book ID: 111022695
• Publisher: Zoe Sharp
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 34 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781909344235

✦ Synopsis

The Night Butterflies is a standalone short story by the highly acclaimed crime thriller writer, Zoë Sharp. First published in the ACTION anthology, edited by Matt Hilton, it's the story of a man who thought he'd left his violent past behind him, but discovers it is only a chance footstep away.'Zoë Sharp is one of the sharpest, coolest, and most intriguing writers I know.' New York Times Bestseller, Harlan CobenZoë Sharp's short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as well as anthologies in the UK and USA, been used in school text books, turned into short films, included in many Best Of collections, and nominated for the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Short Story Dagger.The Night Butterflies finds retired 'insurance' man Tommy Renshaw running a quiet little bar on the north side of Bali and living a dream retirement with his dream girlfriend, Pia. Until an unwelcome visitor from another life arrives to remind him that you can never outrun the past. You can only hope to outlive it ...Praise for Zoë Sharp:'If you don't like Zoë Sharp there's something wrong with you. Go and live in a cave and get the hell out of my gene pool! There are few writers who go right to the top of my TBR pile − Zoë Sharp is one of them.' Best-selling Stuart MacBride'Sharp means business.' Marilyn Stasio, New York Times'Breathlessly compelling and utterly real.' Jeffery Deaver'Sharp deserves a genre all her own − if you are just discovering Zoë Sharp then you are in for a real treat.' Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine'With SECOND SHOT, Zoë Sharp has become the UK answer to Laura Lippman. This is mystery on the grand scale and yet so simply written that you nearly miss how cleverly it is constructed. Superb.' Ken Bruen, best-selling author of BLITZ and LONDON BOULEVARD