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DI Horton novel nominated for Book Award

I'm delighted to announce that the seventh in the DI Andy Horton crime series, A Killing Coast has been nominated by my publisher Severn House for the eDUNNIT AWARD at CrimeFest 2013.

Crimefest is an annual convention for crime fiction fans and draws top crime novelists, readers, editors, publishers and reviewers from around the world. It follows the format of US conventions of interviews, panels, a Gala Dinner, and one or two surprises. The event takes place at the Royal Marriot Hotel, Bristol from 30 May to 2 June 2013.

The eDunnit Award is for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format in the British Isles in 2012.

I've appeared at Crimefest for the last three years and will again be appearing on a panel in 2013.

A Killing Coast is the seventh in the DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime series set in the Solent area on the South Coast of England. It was published by Severn House in the UK and the USA in 2012.

Death Lies Beneath, the eighth in the Horton series was also published in 2012.

A Killing Coast is also available as an e book.

The winning author receives a cash prize, an eReader and a commemorative vase provided by Bristol Blue Glass.

Undercurrent, the ninth in the series is published in hardcover in the UK in January 2013 and in the USA and as an ebook in May 2013.

For further information please visit my website at http://www.rowmark.co.uk



Death Lies Beneath
Death Lies Beneath by Pauline Rowson
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See where the new DI Horton, Undercurrent, is set

The new DI Andy Horton, number nine in the series, called Undercurrent, will be published in the UK and Commonwealth on 31 January and in the USA on 1 May 2013. Like all the DI Horton novels it is set against the backdrop of the sea in the Solent area on the South Coast of England.

In this crime novel DI Horton has a new mystery to solve as well as continuing with the search for the truth surrounding the disappearance of his mother over thirty years ago. Undercurrent is set in July around Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, at Gunwharf Quays - which is renamed Oyster Quays in the Horton novels - and around Langstone Harbour.

Click here to see photographs of where Undercurrent was created and how DI Horton is sucked into another baffling and complex case.

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Fourth in DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime series, Dead Man's Wharf, to be published in China

The fourth in the DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime series, Dead Man's Wharf,by Pauline Rowson,has been published in China by Nanhai Publishing Company of Haikou.

Nanhai Publishing bought translation rights to six novels in the DI Horton series published in the UK, Commonwealth and USA by Severn House. Deadly Waters, the second in the Horton series and The Suffocating Sea, the third in the series have recently been published in China and the remainder in the DI Horton series are to be published over the coming months.

Dead Man's Wharf

Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where an elderly resident, suffering from dementia, claims she's been attacked by an intruder. Horton is ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings until he discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead woman's belongings are missing and her son, convicted for armed robbery, has been found dead in his cell. Coupled with a series of threatening telephone calls to a television personality, and a mother's conviction that her son's death on Christmas Eve was no accident, Horton finds he is caught up in a complex investigation that has far-reaching international implications. With the pressure on to find a killer, and hampered by his belief that his bosses are lying to him, Horton discovers that he's stepped into a web of intrigue, deception and corruption that stretches back into the past.

Dead Man's Wharf
Dead Man's Wharf (Andy Horton) by Pauline Rowson
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New DI Horton published Undercurrent by Pauline Rowson

Undercurrent,the ninth in the marine mystery crime series featuring the flawed and rugged detective DI Horton is now published in the UK and Commonwealth by Severn House. It will be published in the USA on 1 May 2013.

Set in the Solent area on the South Coast of England the DI Horton series has received critical acclaim both in the UK and the USA where they have been compared to the works of Ed McBain and Joseph Wambaugh, and their British counterparts Peter Robinson and John Harvey. Translation rights to the Horton series have recently been sold to China where they are being published in 2013.

American Reviewer Booklist says, "Andy Horton is an especially good series hero, a likeable fellow with plenty of street smarts and the requisite personal baggage – an abrasive supervisor and an antagonistic soon-to-be ex-wife. Procedural fans who haven’t already read Rowson should be encouraged to do so in the strongest possible terms."

Undercurrent

When naval historian Dr Douglas Spalding is found dead in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, the Major Crime Team is adamant it is suicide. Detective Inspector Horton is not so sure. Then another body is found in similar circumstances and Horton is convinced they’re looking at murder; but not so his bosses. Angry and frustrated at the lack of investigation, Horton goes out on a limb to prove he’s right. Whichever way he turns, he finds the deaths have all the hallmarks of a cover up at the highest level, but who is behind it and why? Soon Horton begins to find disturbing similarities with his own private investigations into the disappearance of his mother thirty years ago. As he gets closer to the truth someone is determined to prevent it from ever being revealed, even if means death . . .

Undercurrent

Undercurrent by Pauline Rowson
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