Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Child Finder | 2017 | Rene Denfeld | Buy |
| 2 | The Butterfly Girl | 2019 | Rene Denfeld | Buy |
The Naomi Cottle series follows an investigator with a gift for finding missing children. In The Child Finder (2017), Naomi searches for a girl who vanished from an Oregon Christmas tree farm three years earlier, while also dealing with fragments of her own forgotten childhood. The book was praised for its lyrical writing and tense atmosphere.
The Butterfly Girl (2019) continues Naomi’s story as she searches for her own sister while becoming involved with a homeless twelve-year-old girl living on the streets of Portland. Both books combine literary prose with suspense plotting, and Denfeld’s experience as a real-life investigator and foster parent gives the stories an unusual degree of authenticity.