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Want to see what DI Andy Horton is up to in DEATH SURGE?

Watch the video to catch a glimpse or better still but the book!  DEATH SURGE is available in paperback, as an ebook, on Amazon Kindle and on KOBO and as an unabridged audio book





'This excellent police procedural by Pauline Rowson a very gifted author. The quality of her very descriptive writing is superb. I was gripped until the last page of this very well structured and plotted story. Recommended.' Eurocrime





Death Surge is set in August against the backdrop of the sea in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to say that his nephew, Johnnie Oslow, is missing cuts short DI Horton’s sailing trip to France. What began as the hunt for a missing man soon becomes the search for a ruthless killer...




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The write stuff- writing fiction - getting the characters names right

Coming
up with the right name for characters can be a tricky business.
Sometimes they come to me completely out of the blue, as I am creating a
character, other times I will struggle to find the name that best suits
that particular character and until I do the personality refuses to
come fully alive.






The name has to fit. If it's not right then the character isn't right.

Undercurrent, DI Andy Horton at the Scene of Crime

A wet August night and Inspector Andy Horton is returning from London to Portsmouth when police cars on blue lights race past him on the motorway. Nothing unusual in that but as Horton heads for the small yacht on which he lives he sees the police vehicles pulled up outside Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard and draws to a halt.

Read about the inspiration behind Undercurrent, see the photographs and read an extract

 

Listen to an extract of DI Andy Horton, Death Surge

Listen to an extract of the audio book in the Inspector Andy Horton crime series, Death Surge, published by Soundings, narrated by Gordon Griffin. Death Surge is the tenth in the Horton series of currently 13, soon
to be 14 with the publication of Dead Passage in October 2018. Death
Surge is set in August against the backdrop of the sea in Portsmouth and
the Isle of Wight. A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to
say that his nephew, Johnnie Oslow, is missing cuts short DI Horton’s
sailing trip to France. What began as the hunt for a missing man soon
becomes the search for a ruthless killer...




"A crisply written, cleverly plotted procedural with a nice twist." Booklist USA




Listen to an extract of the audio book Death Surge

Read an extract of DI Andy Horton, Death Surge

Death
Surge is the tenth in the Horton series of currently 13, soon to be 14
with the publication of Dead Passage in October 2018. Death Surge is set
in August against the backdrop of the sea in Portsmouth and the Isle of
Wight. A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to say that
his nephew, Johnnie Oslow, is missing cuts short DI Horton’s sailing
trip to France. What began as the hunt for a missing man soon becomes
the search for a ruthless killer...





This is an extract from when Horton views the charred remains of a
body in the old ruins of the Hilsea Lines in Portsmouth, an ancient
monument, which is now a popular walking spot including woodland,
meadows and fresh brackish lakes.




Read the extract of Death Surge

Inspector Andy Horton's on the hunt for a missing man during Cowes Week

In Death Surge, the charred remains of a young man are found in the old ruins of the Hilsea Lines in Portsmouth, an ancient monument, which has become a popular walking spot including woodland, meadows and fresh brackish lakes. But the novel opens with DI Andy Horton sailing off the Isle of Wight on his yacht during Cowes Week, until a call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli, to say his nephew is missing brings Horton back to investigate.




Read more about the story behind Death Surge

What's on in August?

August, and the chance to feature two of my crime novels set during this month, Undercurrent and Death Surge both in the Inspector Andy Horton crime series. August is obviously a busy month for my flawed and rugged detective with a high crime rate in his home coastal city of Portsmouth, England!




Read more about what's on in August

What makes Inspector Andy Horton tick?

Watch the new video upload - what makes Inspector Andy Horton tick? The story behind this rugged and flawed detective.







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complicated tales that keep the reader on his/her toes to the very
end...an author who never disappoints." Amazon

Revising and researching the crime novel

This video was filmed at a talk I gave to an audience at Romsey in
Hampshire.  In this video extract I'm talking about how I revise and
research  my crime novels.. You can see
more videos here on my website or on my You Tube Channel. For details of all my forthcoming speaking engagements visit my events page.

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