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Dot Hutchison Books in Order

Dot Hutchison has written 6 books, published between 2013 and 2020. The first book is A Wounded Name (2013) and the newest is Deadly Waters (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
6
Published
2013–2020
Confirmed
4 of 6 titles
Total pages
1,813 across 6 books
Reading time
30–45 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,813 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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Dot Hutchison writes thrillers built on kidnapping, murder and missing persons. The Butterfly Garden (2016), The Roses of May (2017), The Summer Children (2018) and The Vanishing Season (2019) put government investigators onto those cases. Boarding schools, ghost stories and revenge run through the wider catalogue, which opens with A Wounded Name (2013). Six books end at Deadly Waters (2020).

The Collector series by Dot Hutchison opens with The Butterfly Garden, in which young women are abducted and held by a captor known as the Gardener. FBI agents investigate the cases across the series.

How many Dot Hutchison books are there?

Dot Hutchison has 6 books, released between 2013 and 2020. 4 of them belong to the Collector series.

Dot Hutchison Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 6 Dot Hutchison books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Wounded Name by Dot Hutchison (2013)
  2. Cover of The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison, book 1 of the Collector series (2016)
  3. Cover of The Roses of May by Dot Hutchison, book 2 of the Collector series (2017)
  4. Cover of The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison, book 3 of the Collector series (2018)
  5. Cover of The Vanishing Season by Dot Hutchison, book 4 of the Collector series (2019)
  6. Cover of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison (2020)
  1. 1
    A Wounded Name2013 · 314 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013314
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  2. 2
    The Butterfly GardenCollector #12016 · 276 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016276
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Roses of MayCollector #22017 · 300 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017300
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    The Summer ChildrenCollector #32018 · 301 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018301
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Vanishing SeasonCollector #42019 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019320
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Deadly Waters2020 · 302 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020302
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Dot Hutchison books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Collector in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Butterfly Garden
  2. 2. The Roses of May
  3. 3. The Summer Children
  4. 4. The Vanishing Season

Standalone books

2 books

2 Dot Hutchison titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Dot Hutchison books in order?

You only need to read Dot Hutchison books in order within the Collector series, which holds 4 of the 6 Dot Hutchison books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Dot Hutchison

Start with A Wounded Name (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Dot Hutchison book?

Deadly Waters (2020) is the newest Dot Hutchison book released so far.

Is there a new Dot Hutchison book coming?

No next Dot Hutchison book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Dot Hutchison at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Dot Hutchison title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Dot Hutchison books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,813 pages across all 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 302 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Dot Hutchison books, 5 of 6, were published in the 2010s.

What the Dot Hutchison books are about

5 of the 6 Dot Hutchison books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: investigation is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

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