Hello, there. I’m Roger Butters. Thanks for visiting my Website. I hope that having got this far, you might be interested in having a look at one or two of my books. If having seen the blurbs and extracts from a few of them you feel like buying, so much the better. If not, there’s no harm done.
Random Tyranny
Just published on Amazon, both in e-book and Paperback. >More.
Jerusalem By Moonlight
Just published on Amazon, both in e-book and Paperback. >More.
About the Books:
Several other books have been published and will soon be appearing on Amazon in a second edition. They include:
The Miss Bell Murder Mysteries:
Agnes Bell, of Handforth in Yorkshire, is a quiet and shy Victorian governess grieving over the recent death of the young man she had loved. Fate brings her into contact with a murder, and rather to her own surprise she succeeds in assisting the police to bring the culprit to account. Thereafter she discovers that she has a talent for detection. Meanwhile she meets another young man, as relaxed and humorous as she is serious and devout. Their developing relationship enables them both to grow as people, as she develops a sense of humour and he learns to reflect upon the more serious things in life.
Any resemblance between the heroine and Anne Brontë is entirely intentional.
The Richard Karelius Adventures:
Stories of the Napoleonic War, from the time of Austerlitz (1805) to that of Waterloo (1815). The hero, Richard Karelius, is an Anglo-Prussian soldier and diplomat enaged in espionage. His adversary, Jacques Thiercelin, is a spy-catcher with Napoleon’s Imperial Police. These two men, both admirable, but cast on opposite sides by accident of birth, frequently cross swords with one another throughout the war.
Karelius’s emotional life is almost as complex as the political and military issues he encounters. At different times three women are important in his life. Two of the affairs end tragically. But the third?
Kidnap Of The King
The First Danzig and Hare Murder Mystery
Meet Jim Danzig, enquiry agent of Castletown, a man deeply disillusioned with modern life and technology, and remarkably incompetent at handling the latter, for which he has to rely upon his assistant, Judith Hare.
Danzig is employed on what seems a routine security job: looking after a successful racehorse for a few days before it goes to stud.
But the apparently straightforward task blows up in his face when he is knocked on the head and the horse stolen. Matters get worse, as couple of murders follow. Who is responsible for the kidnap and ransom demands, who calls himself by the code name ‘the Tetrarch’? And is he also responsible for the murders?
The first in a series of murder mysteries involving Danzig and Hare, played out against the background of an English country town, and the picturesque if sometimes sinister surroundings of local beauty spot Sandford Heath.
Murder For Murder
The Second Danzig and Hare Murder Mystery
Another adventure for Jim Danzig, the Castletown enquiry agent deeply suspicious of (and incompetent at handling) modern technology. He and his partner Judith Hare are called upon to investigate the death of 16-year-old Ryan Kelsall, former pupil at the local independent Grammar School, who met his death by a fall from the top of a deserted multi-storey car park. Two other people associated with him also died recently in obscure circumstances.
Enquiries by Danzig and Hare lead to their joining a local drama group run by former pupils and staff of Castletown Independent Grammar School, who are producing Measure for Measure. Many of the cast are found to have guilty secrets, from mere sexual peccadilloes to an elaborate fraud involving a hitherto unsuspected Shakespeare play.
Not without risk to themselves, an occasional punch-up, and some friction with the police, Danzig and Hare uncover the truth, and the murderer is revealed.
For more detail, and free sample pages of those books published, see Books Page.