R C S Hutching
"Welcome to my website. This is not only meant to promote my books but also to tell you a little about myself. One of the menu sections is marked 'The Author' and will provide some basic personal information.
I do hope that you enjoy the Château Sarony novels. They are intended as light action/mystery stories featuring a husband and wife named Martin and Anna Price. Although archaeologists by profession, their work has evolved into the investigation of historical and semi-historical mysteries. Although dealing with events of the past, their investigations regularly bring them close to very real dangers of the present day. So far there are fifteen published books in the series and I hope to publish a sixteenth in 2025.
In 2017 I also published an alternative to Château Sarony entitled Spitfire Inheritance. A second book followed named Hurricane Enigma, and a third - Lancaster Resolution - featuring Colin Medhurst and Billy Hagen, who were joined in the third story by Lady Wendy Donaldson. I intend to feature her in further books of this series.
​Having first portrayed Clarence Wilkinson and Jenny Matheson in a segment of The Brandenburg Cipher I decided to award them a series of their own named 'Wilkinson at War' set in war-torn Britain of the 1940s. The result was 'The Woman from St John's Wood', followed by 'The Ten-Bob Traitors'. A third story tentatively named 'The Mayfair Ring' will be published later this year.
Thank you for visiting my website. Please feel free to comment or ask questions."
RCS Hutching January 2025
The Inkerman Experience​
ISBN: 9798302403575
It is 2016 and a bullet-holed French army jacket of Crimean War vintage and a soldier’s 1854 letter mentioning his comrade’s murder arouses the interest of Anna and Martin Price. They follow the path of a mysterious agent of the Russian Orthodox Church from a ruined monastery in Inkerman to Marseilles and from there to Paris where they initially lose sight of him. Access to the records of Les Invalides enables them to once more pick up his trail only to find that he died in an accident at a North London pub in 1887. While investigating the Russian agent, the unexpected appearance in Sarony of Martin’s ex-wife Yvonne provokes a confrontation at Auberge Fleurie between Martin and Gerard, Yvonne’s companion. Martin’s threat to kill the man results in suspicion falling on him when Gerard is murdered in Dijon a few hours later. Help requested in Yvonne’s phone call to Martin is vetoed by Anna who fears that her husband’s ex-wife is involved in a drug distribution racket. Within forty-eight hours Yvonne’s body is pulled from a Dijon lake.Much to Anna’s displeasure, Martin sets out to find her killer and following their visit to London, the couple are forced to accept the unlikely evidence of a link existing between the soldier’s murder in 1854 murder and Yvonne’s murder in 2016. They are not the only people interested in what their London visit uncovered and Anna finds herself cornered by a vengeful psychopath.
Lancaster Resolution
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ISBN: 9798333029188
It is 1979 and the chance encounter by Medhurst and Hagen with a stranger results in the man relating a family mystery originating in a Catholic convent in Canada in 1919. Intrigued, Medhurst insists in following up the story via a former ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) female ferry pilot currently heading a major British Aeronautical company.
When records show that four bodies were recovered following the fatal crash in Lincolnshire of a Lancaster bomber at the end of a ferry flight from Canada in 1943 the mystery deepens. All four bodies were burnt beyond all recognition but only two personnel boarded the aircraft in Canada.
The pieces of the puzzle are slowly assembled and a tale of vengeance and murder emerges. Culminating in Canada, the resolution of the mystery puts Medhurst, Hagen and former ATA pilot, Wendy in extreme danger
If you enjoyed my earlier books featuring the husband and wife team of Anna and Martin Price then this fifteenth Château Sarony novel is for you. The action occurs in the summer of 2016 and takes place in England and France.
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Alternatively, the third book in the Medhurst series takes place in 1970s Britain and follows Colin Medhurst, Billy Hagen and Lady Wendy Donaldson as they examine the reasons behind the explosion of a Lancaster at a British airfield in 1943.