Length5h 54m
About this audiobook
Some men are taught. Some men are born. And some women never see it coming.
Robin Patterson has been married for eleven years to a man who brings her flowers on Fridays and fixes the porch swing and never raises his voice.
Then he comes home with blood on his shirt.
Just a deer, he says. An unlucky encounter on a dark road.
A week later it happens again. Blood on the shirt. Scratch marks on his back. And a story that doesn't add up.
Robin starts following him. What she finds in the shed behind their house will make her question every meal she ever cooked, every Sunday she ever sat across from him, every year she spent not looking.
Private investigator Jimmy Hunter has been chasing a ghost for eleven years—a man the county buried, a case the state closed, a file with no name on it locked in a drawer he can't bring himself to open. He knows how to see through a lie. He does not know how to see through a marriage.
There's a river full of bodies and a killer who has been practicing for a long time. There's a school that teaches patience. And there's a woman who is about to learn that the most dangerous thing in the world is a man who was taught to wait.
The Butcher's Apprentices is a novel of domestic horror and cold-blooded suspense—a story about what lives in the shed behind the house, and the ordinary people who never ask.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (51)
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length5 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
2CHAPTER 1: Just a Deer
3CHAPTER 2: Scratch Marks
4CHAPTER 3: The River Gives Up Its Dead
5CHAPTER 4: What Robin Saw Through the Blinds
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6CHAPTER 5: The File With No Name on It
7CHAPTER 6: The Smell in the Garage
8CHAPTER 7: Jimmy Hunter Doesn't Believe in Coincidence
9CHAPTER 8: The Ones Who Left
10CHAPTER 9: Dinner at Seven, Questions at Eight
11CHAPTER 10: The Office
12CHAPTER 11: The Sheriff's Office
13CHAPTER 12: What the Butcher Kept in the Freezer
14CHAPTER 13: The First Apprentice
15Chapter 13 — pipeline notes
16CHAPTER 14: The Farm on Hargrove Road
17CHAPTER 15: The Second Apprentice
18CHAPTER 16: The Butcher's Apprentice
19CHAPTER 17: The Aunt Who Knew Too Much
20CHAPTER 18: The File With No Name on It
21CHAPTER 19: The Watcher
22CHAPTER 20: The House on Barren Road
23CHAPTER 21: Six Forty-Five
24CHAPTER 22: The Last Excuse
25CHAPTER 23: Blood on the Shirt (Again)
26CHAPTER 24: The Butcher's Apprentices
27EPILOGUE: Tuesday
28ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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