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.
The Virgin’s Daughter
The Virgin’s Daughter just published on Amazon, both in e-book and Paperback. >More.
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.
The Trouble With Mercia
Just published on Amazon, both in e-book and Paperback. >More.
About the Books:
Several other books have been published on Amazon both in ebook and Paperback. 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. >More.
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? >More.
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. >More.
All Wind and Pistol
The First of the Exploits of Ancient Pistol Secret Agent
Through the perilous world of early Renaissance espionage strides the intrepid figure of Ancient Pistol, secret agent. Massively confident, never at a loss for an insult or anachronistic quotation from the Bard, Shakespeare’s vainglorious soldier has been entrusted by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, with a cloak-and-dagger mission of the utmost delicacy, involving the fate of the mightiest in the land.
Pistol would not be everyone’s choice for such a task, being a loudmouthed, cowardly, drunken fathead. His efficiency is further impaired not only by the necessity to avoid his creditors, their lawyers, and the Army he has defrauded, but a tempestuous relationship with Doll Tearsheet – not to mention sundry other ladies – and the inept assistance of Sir John Falstaff.
Yet whether brawling in the Boar’s Head, discovered in flagrante by a murderous husband, or enduring the indignity of the stocks or the dunghill, Pistol is indestructible. Before the colossal ineptitude of his blundering, the Machiavellian schemes of the mighty crumble and fall. Battered, humiliated, disgraced but undefeated, Pistol triumphs in the end.>More.
For more detail, and free sample pages of those books published, see Books Page.