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Listen to Silent Running, the first in the Art Marvik series in audio book being read by Paul Noble

Silent Running,
the first in the fast-paced, action-packed marine crime series featuring Art Marvik, the troubled
former Royal Marine Commando, turned undercover marine investigator for
the UK's National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS)  has been
published as an unabridged audio book by Soundings and is read by Paul Noble.



Nine of my crime novels are now available in audio book format which includes eight in the DI Andy Horton police procedural series.



You can listen to Paul Noble reading an extract from Silent Running.

What's on in July 2016

July
sees the publication as an unabridged audio book  of Silent Running,
the first in the action-packed marine crime series featuring Art Marvik, troubled
former Royal Marine Commando, turned undercover marine investigator for
the UK's National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS).  It has been
published as an unabridged audio book by Soundings and is read by Paul Noble.



Nine of my crime novels are now available in audio book format which includes eight in the DI Andy Horton police procedural series.



Also in July, two talks a radio interview and lots of writing.



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Last chance to enter the competition to win copies of my crime novels

The competition and free prize draw to win signed copies of two of my
latest crime novels is being offered by Portsmouth International Port in celebration of their 40th anniversary.. Why not delve
into the adventures of DI Andy Horton in Fatal Catch and marine
investigator, Art Marvik in Dangerous Cargo.



Competition entries must be received by 30 June 2016. Only one entry per person.



Click here to enter the competition.

Walking in Art Marvik's footsteps at Kimmeridge Bay

I
took the opportunity to walk in Art Marvik's footsteps this week on a
return visit to Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset which is featured in the latest
Marvik marine crime novel, Dangerous Cargo, published by Severn House in the UK on 31 May 21016 and in the USA on 1 September.



In Dangerous Cargo, Marvik's mission for the UK's National Intelligence
Marine Squad (NIMS) is to catch a ruthless killer whose murders span
over half a century. He tracks down a man he believes is involved to Clavells Cafe and Restaurant in Kimmeridge Bay.



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Did you know? Fascinating little Forensic Facts

During my research I come across some interesting little forensic facts.  Here are a couple of them.



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A great setting for Art Marvik, Dangerous Cargo, the spectacular Dorset Coast

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. His mission takes him along the spectacular Dorset coastline as well as
to the coastal towns of Swanage and Poole and to the Hampshire
waterfront town of Southampton and the Solent.

Click here to see some of the pictures of  where Dangerous Cargo is set.

Dangerous Cargo opens in the Dorset coastal town of Swanage

Dangerous Cargo opens in the Dorset coastal town of
Swanage where former Royal Marine Commando, turned marine investigator, Art Marvik finds himself on a new assignment for the UK’s National
Intelligence Marine Squad. (NIMS). It’s his second mission for NIMS ( his first
was in Silent Running published in 2015) and he’s detailed to attend the funeral of a man whose
body was found washed up on a beach on the Isle of Wight in January only he’d
been officially declared dead fifty-five years earlier.

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What makes Pauline Rowson's crime novels different - marine mystery country - a fascination with the sea

We
all know that location is an important factor when choosing where to
live, it is also equally important in choosing the setting for a crime
novel. There are many great settings for crime novels in the UK from
gritty Glasgow to captivating Cornwall and of course the wonderful
diversity of settings in countries around the World. There is also the
fictional setting.



For me though there is marine mystery country, the location for my crime
novels, which happens to be a real place and that is Portsmouth and the
Solent on the South Coast of England. Here my sailing detective, the
flawed and rugged  DI Andy Horton, pits his wits against the criminal
classes, which takes him, and others in the team, into the harbours and
marinas around Portsmouth, Langstone, Chichester, and the Isle of Wight.



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Dangerous Cargo, the second in the Art Marvik series, delivers a more deadly cargo than bananas

Had
great fun on the photo shoot for the launch of Dangerous Cargo thanks
to the Portsmouth International Port, MMD Shipping Services and the
Geest Line.



What better place to launch a new crime novel with the title
Dangerous Cargo than in front of  a cargo ship at Portsmouth
International Port, although the cargo in the second in the marine based
crime series featuring Art Marvik is of a far more deadly nature than
bananas transported on the Geest Line's MV
Benguela Stream, a purpose-built Dutch-registered 150m vessel for the ocean transport of
perishable cargo.





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Pauline Rowson talking to Julian Clegg on the BBC Radio Solent Breakfast Show

I
was delighted to be invited on to the Julian Clegg Breakfast Show BBC
Radio Solent on 7 June 2016 to talk about my DI Andy Horton crime novels
set in the Solent area and to launch the latest in the Art Marvik
marine mystery series, Dangerous Cargo, published by Severn House in the UK on 31 May 2016.



Read more and listen to the interview.