The Jade Butterfly

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Jeffrey Round. The Jade Butterfly

Cover

Epigraph

Table of Contents

Prologue

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight

Twenty-Nine

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

From After the Horses, Jeffrey Round’s next Dan Sharp Mystery

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For Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Jean Genet, Yukio Mishima, William Burroughs, David Wojnarowicz, and other assorted saints and sinners who got here long before me

— Mao Zedong

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“So how do you know when she likes you?” Ked asked.

Dan picked up the smaller envelope, weighing it in his hands, then set it aside. He turned to his son. “You might see it in her face. The way she looks at you when you pass each other in the hall. Eventually, you’ll know because it becomes the most natural thing in the world to spend time with her. Your heart stops racing and your tongue stops tripping over itself and you begin to like the way she looks at you when you look at her.”

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