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Did you know? Fascinating Forensic Facts-Fingerprints

I pick up some fascinating forensic facts during my research for my crime novels. Here are some on fingerprinting.




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What's on in February 2018

February sees the publication in paperback of the Inspector Andy Horton crime novel, LETHAL WAVES, number 13 in the series. It is already published as an ebook and on Amazon Kindle and on Kobo and in hardback. Lethal Waves has received some lovely reviews.




South coast crime comes to Portsmouth

Also in February I'm delighted to be taking part in an event with revered crime author, Peter James.




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January is the setting for Inspector Andy Horton's latest murder mystery

In January Inspector Andy Horton has three murder investigations (not all in the same year) and over this month I've focused on two in in this blog, DEAD MAN'S WHARF and BLOOD ON THE SAND, now it is the turn of the latest in the DI Andy Horton series (number 13) LETHAL WAVES and very apt it is too because on 1 February, LETHAL WAVES is published in paperback. It is also available as an ebook on Amazon Kindle and on Kobo and in hardcover.



Throughout February I'll be looking behind the scenes at LETHAL WAVES. But here is the background on LETHAL WAVES, published by Severn House.




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Video- DI Andy Horton has an unusual murder mystery in Blood on the Sand

It's January and Inspector Andy Horton is on the trail of a killer in BLOOD ON THE SAND.



'Another solid entry in a consistently well written series,' Booklist USA



'The very tight plotting was very impressive. A very enjoyable read.' Eurocrime



 


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Fascinating Forensic Facts - a suspect's hand

What if the only evidence available in a murder investigation is a grainy image of a suspect’s hand? Can the police crack the case? Perhaps Inspector Andy Horton can? In FATAL CATCH, fishermen haul a gruesome catch, not a suspect's hand but a victim's!

And maybe and thanks to a group at the University of Dundee in the UK, Inspector Horton will be able to catch more criminals by the hand. The Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) can assess vein patterns, scars, nail beds, skin pigmentation and knuckle creases from images of hands to show, with high reliability, that police got the right person in several very serious court cases in the UK.




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The Story Behind Blood on the Sand

Blood on the Sand opens on a cold grey January morning in Bembridge Marina on the Isle of Wight, where Andy Horton has decided to put into on his small yacht. It's hardly the sailing season but after a difficult Christmas, his first spent apart from his young daughter, Emma, and following some tough criminal investigations, Andy Horton, has decided to take a few days break. He also needs time to think through the startling revelations he's uncovered about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago.



But he barely gets the time to do so when walking across the abandoned golf course on the Duver near Bembridge Marina he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand leaning over a corpse in one of the discarded bunkers.




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A great review for Dead Man's Wharf audio book

It's
January and Inspector Andy Horton and Sergeant Barney Cantelli are
detailed to investigate a series of crimes that lead them into a complex
investigation with far-reaching international implications and personal
danger.



Available as an unabridged audio book narrated by Gordon Griffin. Also in paperback and as an ebook on Amazon Kindle and Kobo.




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Video book trailer Dead Man's Wharf

It's January and Inspector Andy Horton and Sergeant Barney Cantelli are detailed to investigate a series of crimes that lead them into a complex investigation with far-reaching international implications and personal danger.




Watch the video book trailer

The Page 69 Test - Dead Man's Wharf - DI Andy Horton

The first I heard of the Page 69 Test was when a member of the public approached me in a bookshop where I was doing a book signing and said she always applied it when deciding which crime novel to purchase. She didn’t buy one of my novels so I’d obviously failed to reach her exacting standards, whatever they were! I can't recall which crime novel it was or when but I have applied the Page 69 test to some of my crime novels including the Inspector Andy Horton procedurals, A Killing Coast and Shroud of Evil. This time, as it is January and Dead Man's Wharf is set in January I thought I'd apply it to that crime novel.






So here it is:

The story behind Dead Man's Wharf - Inspector Andy Horton

Dead Man’s Wharf doesn’t start with the discovery of a body it begins in January when Inspector Andy Horton and Sergeant Barney Cantelli are detailed to investigate a series of threatening telephone calls being made to a TV personality who fronts a popular television series called ‘Wrecks Around Britain’. Horton is convinced it is a publicity stunt and is annoyed that their time is being wasted when their workload is so heavy.




Read about the inspiration behind the Inspector Andy Horton crime novel, Dead Man's Wharf.