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Watch the video book trailer for Dangerous Cargo

The video book trailer for the NEW Art Marvik marine crime novel, Dangerous Cargo, by Pauline Rowson, now published in the UK in hardcover.



Marine Investigator, 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.



Marvik’s mission takes him to the Dorset coastal town of Swanage, the Isle of Purbeck and the spectacular coastline of Dorset, Hampshire and the Solent.



Watch the video book trailer for Dangerous Cargo.

DI Andy Horton helps Portsmouth International Port celebrate 40 years

DI
Andy Horton was called to assist Portsmouth International Port kick
start their 40th anniversary celebrations with the launch of an
exhibition showing the development of the Port over the years.  OK, so
it wasn't actually Andy Horton who showed up in person but me and I took
him along for good company in the form of the latest in the series, Fatal Catch



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What's on in June 2016

June
sees the publication of the new crime novel featuring former Royal
Marine Commando, Special Boat Services Officer, Art Marvik in his second
mission for the UK's covert National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS)  Dangerous Cargo, published by Severn House  It is the second in the Art Marvik marine crime series, the first Silent Running was
published in the UK and the USA in 2015 and  has been hailed as  'A
tense, terrifying thrill ride that twists and turns with 
dizzying speed.'



Also in June I will be on BBC Radio Solent on Tuesday 7 June at 7.50am.



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A flavour of Art Marvik's first mission for NIMS ahead of his second in Dangerous Cargo

Former Royal Marine Commando, Art Marvik, now working undercover for the
UK's National Intelligence Marine Squad, (NIMS) is about to embark on
his second mission in Dangerous Cargo,
published by Severn House in the UK on 31 May 2016.  I thought  as a
prequel you might like a flavour of his first mission for NIMS in Silent Running  which is available in paperback and as an ebook.




Adrift after leaving the marines, Marvik finds
himself being used as bait to catch a ruthless killer whose slaying
spree spans the decades.
It's a mission that will put all his skills and training to the test- a dangerous assignment that could cost him his life

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Pauline Rowson on the attraction of writing crime novels

This video was shot at CSI Portsmouth 2012 at which I appeared with
crime authors, Stephen Booth, Ann Cleeves and Matt Hilton.  It was great
fun and I think the audience enjoyed it as much as we did.



In this video I'm talking about what attracts me to crime novels, crime
writing, characters, psychology, point of view and writing style.



Hope you enjoy the short excerpt.

Pauline Rowson's crime novels for 2016 and 2017

2016 and 2017 sees the publication of two new crime novels, two in the DI
Andy Horton police procedural series and two in the marine crime
thriller  series, featuring marine investigator, Art Marvik. I'm also delighted that many of
my previous novels will be published in new formats, including
unabridged audio books, ebooks and in paperback.



Here is a round up of them.

What makes the crime genre is so popular

Crime fiction is one of the best selling genres and the most borrowed
from public libraries. So what is it that makes crime fiction so
popular?  Well apart from being a cracking good read, in crime fiction
we know that generally speaking justice will be done and the case will
be resolved and that doesn’t always happen in real life.

In crime fiction the villain either gets caught or gets his/her
comeuppance but in real life the evil and manipulative, the guilty can
get
away with it as in the case of the unsolved murder in my own family in
1959 that of my great aunt, Martha Giles.

Crime fiction can give us a resolution. It can also give us an insight into what makes people tick.

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Video Book Trailer- Silent Running, an Art Marvik Marine Crime Novel now in paperback

Adrift

after leaving the marines, Marvik finds himself being used as bait to
catch a ruthless killer whose slaying spree spans the decades.It's a
mission that will put all his skills and training to the test- a
dangerous assignment that could cost him his life.




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

"Fans of Rowson’s DI Andy Horton books will be delighted with her new
series featuring former marine commando Art Marvik.A tense, terrifying
thrill ride that twists and turns with dizzying speed, combined with a
likable, smart, tough, but all too human hero, make this a cracking-good
new series—action fans need Marvik on their radar." Booklist (USA)


Watch the video trailer of Silent Running

Thinking while walking, a great combination for authors

Being
a writer isn't just about pounding away at a keyboard or scribbling on
paper, much of an author's time is spent thinking and what better way to
do that than to go on a long walk and at the same time benefit from the
exercise.  I also often combine my walks with research not only along
the coastal paths and harbours where I live and where my DI Andy Horton
crime novels are set but also in other areas where the Art Marvik marine
mysteries are set, such as Dorset and East Sussex and, as the Marvik
novels grow, this will take in other coastal locations in the UK.



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Some of the settings used in Art Marvik crime novel, Silent Running, now in paperback

Silent
Running, the first in the series to feature former Royal Marine
Commando, Special Boat Services Officer, Art Marvik, is now available in
paperback.  It is also published in hardcover, as an ebook and in Large
Print, and in July will be available as an unabridged audio book.



In
Silent Running, Marvik finds himself being seconded to work undercover
for the
National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS) headed by Detective Chief
Superintendent Crowder. It is Marvik's first mission for NIMS and he is
sucked into a dangerous and deadly mission, in a race to find a killler
whose slaying spree spans the decades.



View some of the locations used in Silent Running