Praise for The Child Finder: "It's Deliverance encased in ice. Denfeld's novel is indeed loaded with suspense, its resonance comes from its surprising tilt towards storytelling restraint, a rarity in this typical crackling genre. Elegiac, informative and disquieting. The novel gallops to a suitably heart-racing finish." - New York Times Book Review "In the necessary and uncomfortable places where Rene Denfeld locates her haunting fiction, the lines between victim and perpetrator can be painfully blurry. Giving voice to those who are metaphorically or even literally voiceless, Rene Denfeld reminds us that consequences continue, aftermath continues -- yet we must somehow find ways of holding on to threads of hard-won hope." - San Francisco Chronicle "Equal parts chilling, tragic and hopeful, Rene Denfeld's new novel combines her haunting, lyrical prose with a page-turning and harrowing mystery, putting The Butterfly Girl into a league of its own. Fans of The Child Finder will devour this.
" - Mary Kubica, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Good Girl In the hands of Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl is a crime thriller built upon redemption. A survivor of trauma who was herself homeless as a young girl in Portland, Ore., Denfeld knows the harsh truths of her book's world. Amid a steady supply of darkness, The Butterfly Girl still has room for light. - Los Angeles Times "Denfeld tells her twinned stories with a remarkable sense of calm and forbearance in prose that is close to lyrical." - Toronto Star "The Butterfly Girl is a beautiful and very moving novel about lost souls. This heart-stopping thriller left me breathless." - Shari Lapena bestselling author of The Couple Next Door "A heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, and yet ultimately hopeful novel by the amazing Rene Denfeld.
" - Margaret Atwood via Twitter "Chilling, suspenseful and yet full of hope, Denfeld's second mystery is as satisfying as her first." - Washington Post "[M]arvelously done, and Denfeld's characters . are human in the best sense of the word -- humorous, loving, scared and easily rooted for." - Datebook "Denfeld summons the lives of abandoned girls in frank, matter-of-fact detail, never glossing over the filth or violence or the myriad ways in which society lets them down. But ultimately The Butterfly Girl is a crime novel with a murderer on the loose. In the final pages, Denfeld speeds up the narrative, creating a propulsive denouement." - New York Times "Denfeld reminds us that storytelling remains one of the most powerful means we have of confronting our darkest human impulses, and sometimes overcoming them." - Washington Post.