Pauline Rowson's Blog, page 47
September 14, 2015
Look what arrived in the post- my author copies of the new DI Andy Horton, Fatal Catch
The front cover looks stunning. Many thanks to my publisher Severn House for again doing a great job with the new DI Andy Horton mystery and to their talented designer, Piers Tilbury for his jacket cover.
Read more...
September 13, 2015
Tickets now on sale for CSI Southampton - 24 October 2015
Join Pauline Rowson and fellow crime author Natasha Cooper at CSI Southampton on Saturday 24 October at Southampton Central
Library where the cream of crime fiction writers meet real life
crime experts.
The morning session kicks off with a panel where crime authors Pauline Rowson and Natasha Cooper will be debating with crime scene
experts from Hampshire Police, Carolyn Lovell Head of Crime Scene Investigation Management, and Jane Aston Fingerprint Bureau Supervisor, just how crime fiction differs from
crime fact. There will also be the chance for you to ask your questions of the
panel and to have your fingerprints pressed into a keep-sake key ring to take away.
September 10, 2015
Featured Video Book Trailer of the Week-the second in the DI Andy Horton series Deadly Waters
A woman found brutally murdered on the Mulberry in Langstone Harbour
A note on the body "Have you forgotten ME?"Horton has only a week to find a killer...
"Rowson adds an appealing hero to the British Police Procedural ranks." Kirkus Reviews (USA)
Watch the video trailer for DEADLY WATERS - the second in the DI Andy Horton
police procedural crime series, set against the backdrop of the sea in
the Solent on the South Coast of England.
September 3, 2015
Featured Video Book Trailer of the Week- introducing the flawed and rugged DI Andy Horton in Tide of Death
A naked body of a man found on the beachHorton���s second day back in Portsmouth CID following his suspension
He has a point to prove and a case to solve - he's still a good cop
Chosen by Amazon as the Best of Crime Fiction 2006
Watch the video
trailer for TIDE OF DEATH - the first in the DI Andy Horton police
procedural crime series, set against the backdrop of the sea in the
Solent on the South Coast of England.
August 31, 2015
What's on in September 2015
September sees the publication in the UK in hardcover of the NEW DI Andy Horton crime novel FATAL CATCH published by Severn House on 28 September. You can pre-order your copy at any bookshop in the UK or on line and on Amazon UK or reserve it at your library.
Then there are talks and writing projects. Read more about what's happening in September.
August 27, 2015
Countdown to the new DI Andy Horton FATAL CATCH
It's four weeks until the NEW DI Andy Horton crime novel FATAL CATCH ispublished in the UK in hardcover by Severn House on 28 September. You
can pre-order your copy at any bookshop in the UK or on line and on Amazon UK.
FATAL CATCH will be published in the USA in January and you can also pre-order your copy now on Amazon USA
It is the twelfth in the DI Andy Horton crime series and Andy is hot the heels of a new investigation while there is a new
twist to his personal investigations into his mother's disappearance
thirty years ago.
Read more...
August 18, 2015
A walk on the wet side-some of the locations used in the Art Marvik crime novel, Silent Running
Chichester Harbour, and takes in some of the locations used in my
Art Marvik crime novel SILENT RUNNING. The weather too was perfect for walking, not too
hot, sunny or windy.
Itchenor is featured in my Art Marvik crime novel SILENT RUNNING.
Itchenor
is a pretty sailing village on the Eastern shoreline of Chichester
Harbour, popular with second home owners and home to Chichester Harbour Conservancy. Read more
August 16, 2015
Pauline Rowson Video - Writing routines and choosing titles for my crime novels
Hampshire. In this video extract I'm talking about writing routines and answering a question from a member of the audience on how I choose the titles for my crime novels. I hope you enjoy watching it.
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.
Read more and watch the video
August 14, 2015
Watch the video trailer for DI Andy Horton Mystery Death Surge
What began as the hunt for a missing man becomes the search for a ruthless
killer...
A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to say that his
nephew, Johnnie Oslow, is missing cuts short Detective Inspector
Horton���s sailing trip to France. Summoned back to the Isle of Wight,
Horton learns that Johnnie has not shown up for racing during Cowes
Week, as previously arranged. The investigation is ranked low priority
by Horton���s boss, DCI Lorraine Bliss, who like
others believes Johnnie has probably gone off with a woman. But events
take a very different turn when the charred remains of a body are
discovered in one of the disused tunnels at the Hilsea Lines in
Portsmouth.
Read more and watch the video
August 12, 2015
The story behind Death Surge - A DI Andy Horton Mystery
detective DI Andy Horton from the location. It is locations that
inspire me and with the Horton series, set against the powerfully evocative
British marine landscape of the Solent on the South Coast of England, there is always a good place to put a body.
Placing the crime
novels against the backdrop of the sea has many advantages. The sea is never
constant. In one day it can change from
being calm to turbulent. It is also dangerous, misleading and evil like many
villains, and although it can look safe, beneath it can be a sandbank, a rock, a
wreck, a dangerous current all of which can cause havoc and kill, and be used
to good effect in a crime novel. It also
provides a great backdrop for pace and great settings for a climax, which, of
course, I���ve used in Death Surge.
