Winner of the 2006 Davitt Award for Best Crime Novel

On 7 November 1974, a young English nanny named Sandra Rivett was killed in London’s West End. Her employer, Lord Lucan, was accused of her murder. It was widely assumed he had mistaken her for his wife. Lord Lucan disappeared the night Sandra Rivett died and has never been seen since.

Henry Kennedy lives on a mountain on the other side of the world. He is not who he says he is. Is he a murderer or a man who can never clear his name? And is he the only one with something to hide?

Set in Tasmania, Africa and London’s Belgravia, The Butterfly Man is a novel about transformation and deception, and the lengths to which we will go to protect the ones we love.