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Don Butler is an award-winning Canadian journalist. He worked at the Ottawa Citizen, the leading newspaper in Canada's capital, as a reporter, editor and editorial writer for more than four decades. He is married to fellow journalist Christina Spencer and has two grown children – Sean Butler and Meagan Zucco. He also has two grandchildren, Téo Butler and Zoey Zucco. A Life of Bliss is his first novel. A sequel, Norman's Conquest, will be available in May 2024. ...more

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Shipwrecked Souls (Inspector Green Mystery, #12)

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Don Butler is currently reading Shipwrecked Souls (Inspector Green Mystery, #12) by Barbara Fradkin (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Just finished reading Ottawa author Kate Heartfield's new novel, The Tapestry of Time, aloud to my wife. (It took a few weeks but we both looked forward to it daily.) Set in WW2, the tale focuses on the four Sharp sisters and their emerging skills as ...more
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Just finished reading Ottawa author Kate Heartfield's new novel, The Tapestry of Time, aloud to my wife. (It took a few weeks but we both looked forward to it daily.) Set in WW2, the tale focuses on the four Sharp sisters and their emerging skills as ...more
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Just finished Rod Carley's novel Ruff. It's an imaginative, entertaining romp, replete with wordplay and groan-worthy puns. Set in the early 1600s in and around plague-ravaged London, Carley's tale features William Shakespeare (you may have heard of h ...more
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Don Butler liked Jay Stone's review of Norman’s Conquest: "Part mystery, part romance, part travel adventure and part humourous examination of life at a big city newspaper. Don Butler has written a charming page-turner ."
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Don Butler liked Doug Fischer's review of Norman’s Conquest: "As a longtime colleague of the author, I recognized more than a few of the people we knew in those days in the characters who populate the newsroom of the "fictional" Daily Advocate in Norman's Conquest. But you didn't have to be there to enjoy the f" Read more of this review »
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Don Butler liked Stewart Dudley's review of Norman’s Conquest: "Don Butler’s Norman’s Conquest is a delight of a mystery, and I regret not yet having read its predecessor, A Life of Bliss. But I’ll get to it. Butler's latest is one in a rising number of books, particularly in the crime/mystery genres, to be set i" Read more of this review »
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