Literary Fiction

The Butcher

by Jennifer Hillier

Thirty years after police chief Edward Shank killed Seattle's notorious Beacon Hill Butcher, his grandson Matt discovers something horrifying while renovating Edward's Victorian home. The discovery forces a reckoning with family secrets and the possibility that the Butcher's reign of terror never truly ended. A taut psychological thriller that explores legacy, violence, and the sins of fathers.

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