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Still time to enter the competition to win a copy of Dangerous Cargo

There's still time to enter the ebook competition to win a copy of the brand
NEW Pauline Rowson crime novel DANGEROUS CARGO featuring former marine
commando, Art Marvik.



Severn
House Publishers  have 5 ebooks of DANGEROUS CARGO the second in the marine mystery series featuring
former Royal Marine Commando, turned
undercover marine investigator, Art Marvik, to give away. Silent Running, the first, was published in 2015.



"Dangerous Cargo is the sort of book where you can’t look away for a
second, or you’ll be sunk, so to speak. Pauline Rowson is the queen of
misdirection in this outing for former marine Art Marvik." Crime Review



Click here to enter the competition to win a copy of Dangerous Cargo

Video Book Trailer - Dangerous Cargo - enter the competition to win a copy

The second in this fast-paced, action-packed crime series featuring 
marine investigator, former Royal Marine Commando, Art Marvik

Art Marvik, has a new and deadly mission to accomplish for the
National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS) to catch a ruthless killer
whose murders span over half a century.

"Dangerous Cargo is the sort of book where you can’t look away for a
second, or you’ll be sunk, so to speak. Pauline Rowson is the queen of
misdirection in this outing for former marine Art Marvik." Crime Review


Tough, fearless and fit, Marvik is not bound by the rules of the law

Watch the video book trailer for Dangerous Cargo

The heroes who have inspired me

On the wall above my desk are photographs of four men. They look down on
me as I write my crime novels featuring the flawed and rugged DI Andy
Horton and the troubled former Royal Marine Commando, turned undercover
marine investigator, Art Marvik.



Heroes
have always fascinated me. It probably stems from reading so many
thrillers and spy novels as a child.  Then I married a hero, well he is
to me, a former fire-fighter from Red Watch, Portsmouth, UK, who took
many risks and saved many lives.  It’s no wonder then that I turned to
writing about a hero.



So who are the men on the wall, my heroes, who watch me while I write? Read more

Win a copy of the new Art Marvik marine thriller, Dangerous Cargo

Severn House Publishers have 5 ebooks of my latest crime
novel DANGEROUS CARGO the second in the marine mystery series featuring
former Royal Marine Commando, turned
undercover marine investigator, Art Marvik, to give away.



Dangerous Cargo is the second in the Art Marvik
series with Silent Running, the first, published in 2015.





"Marvik's second outing is even more muscular than his debut, (Silent
Running 2015) as Rowson edges her detective puzzles ever closer to
thriller territory." Kirkus Reviews USA



Click here to enter the competition to win a copy of Dangerous Cargo

The story behind Art Marvik in Dangerous Cargo and Silent Running

I
like heroes and I’m a sucker for adventure stories, thrillers and
mysteries which is why I created my enigmatic detective DI Andy Horton
who currently appears in twelve novels. But I also had a hankering to
create a new character for a new series, someone who was not bound by
the official rules of the law, but who was nevertheless on the right
side of it. The series also had to have all the hallmarks of my brand – a
troubled hero, the sea, boats, interesting and diverse characters and
lots of action. So already the stage was set for Art Marvik.





Read more about Art Marvik in SILENT RUNNING and DANGEROUS CARGO and to enter the competition to win a free ebook of DANGEROUS CARGO

Severn House Publishers launch competition to win a copy of new Art Marvik crime novel, Dangerous Cargo

To
mark the publication of my latest marine mystery crime novel in e book and hardcover format in the USA Severn House Publishers 
has launched a competition with the chance to win an e book copy of
Dangerous Cargo, featuring former Royal Marine Commando, turned
undercover marine investigator, Art Marvik.



Dangerous Cargo  was published by Severn House in hardcover in the UK in May 2016 it is the second in the Art Marvik
series with Silent Running, the first, published in 2015. The Art Marvik
series like the DI Andy Horton police procedural
crime novels is set against the backdrop of the sea on the South Coast
of
England.





Read more about how to enter the competition to win a copy of Dangerous Cargo

What's on in September 2016 - competition, talks and a radio interview

September
sees the publication in ebook format worldwide of the second in the Art
Marvik marine mystery series, Dangerous Cargo. It is also published in
hardcover in the USA on 1 September. Dangerous Cargo was published in
the UK in May 2016. To mark the ebook publication my publisher, Severn
House, has 5 ebooks of Dangerous Cargo to give away in a competition. 
All you have to do is answer a very simple question and submit your
entry using the form on the Dangerous Cargo competition page on this
website. The closing date is 30 September. So good luck.



Enter the Dangerous Cargo ebook competition here.



Read more about what's on in September.

Pauline Rowson at Bookham talking about her detective DI Andy Horton

In this video extract taken from a talk I gave to Bookham U3A in Surrey
in July 2016, I am talking about my detective DI Andy Horton who
features in  twelve novels with number thirteen due to be published in
February 2017.



Watch the video

Five films from the 1940s that have inspired me Part 5.

In
this, the final article in my series of blogs about the five films from
the 1940s that have influenced my writing I  turn to one of the most
atmospheric and classic film noirs of all time, The Third Man.



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Five films from the 1940s that have inspired me Part 4.

In this, the fourth article of this series of blogs, I continue to reveal five films that have influenced me and
my style of writing.  There are so many great films to choose from that I
have selected five from the 1940s. 



My first was The Big Sleep, written
by Raymond Chandler, with the film starring the wonderful Humphrey
Bogart and lovely Lauren Bacall.  The second was another
classic Raymond Chandler crime novel, Farewell my Lovely, which was re
titled for the film in the USA as Murder My Sweet.  The film featured a
different Marlowe but an equally great actor who gives a perfect
performance, Dick Powell.  My third selection was another private eye
but this time not based on a Chandler novel. Dark Corner, starring Mark
Stevens, Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb and William Bendix..



Now it's time to switch to a British film and a more light-hearted one but still crime, of course, Green for Danger.



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