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DI Andy Horton The Chidham Creek Murders now available to pre-orderLa

The latest in the DI Andy Horton Solent Murder Mystery series by Pauline Rowson no.18 now available to pre-order,pub date 10 September

What are your main characters favourite tipples in your crime novels?

Pauline Rowson raises a glass to the main characters in her three gripping crime series as she discusses their favourite tipple.

The Chidham Creek Murders no. 18 in the DI Andy Horton on pre-order

The Chidham Creek Murders, number 18 in the DI Andy Horton Solent Murder Mystery series by Pauline Rowson on pre-order from Amazon

Pauline Rowson talks about where she writes her crime novels

Crime author Pauline Rowson talks in this short video on where she writes her coastal set crime novels

In August, DI Andy Horton has two gripping, complex crimes

Two fast-paced DI Andy Horton Solent Murder Mysyteries set in August, The Portsmouth Murders and The Oyster Quays Murders by Pauline Rowson

Bodies in a bay, a ferry and an uninhabited island for DI Horton

DI Andy Horton has his work cut out in these three gripping, fast-paced Solent Murder Mysteries, books 13-15 now available in a Boxed Set on Amazon

Where are the DI Andy Horton crime novels by Pauline Rowson set?

DI Andy Horton He lives on board his yacht in Southsea Marina and rides a Harley-Davidson. See where the Solent Murder Mysteries are set

Locations, research and inspiration for Solent Murder Mysteries 13-15

Read about the inspiration, locations and research for three gripping, fast-paced Solent Murder Mysteries by Pauline Rowson

Three gripping Solent Murder Mysteries in one boxed set

Books 13-15 in the Solent Murder Mystery series featuring DI Andy Horton by Pauline Rowson on Amazon Kindle

The story behind SHROUD OF EVIL DI Horton Mystery re-issued

Shroud of Evil by Pauline Rowson




Hello, Just thought I'd let you know a little bit more about this re-issued Inspector Andy Horton mystery. This mystery novel explores the corrosiveness of secrets. It plunges the flawed and rugged detective, Andy Horton, into a complex murder investigation in which he is forced to withhold vital information because of his own secret and his fear of exposure, even though he knows that in doing so he is putting his professional career on the line.

What drives people to keep secrets? Is it out of shame, or from fear, or guilt? Is it for safety and security? For the protection of oneself or of others? Is it to preserve a way of life, or for sanity or vanity? How far would you go to protect a secret? Would you risk your job for it, your friends your family? Would you kill for it?

In SHROUD OF EVIL there are many secrets. Why does private investigator Jasper Kenton keep so much of his private life secret from his business partner, Eunice Swallows? What are the secrets between ophthalmic consultant Brett Veerman and his lonely wife, Thelma, which trap them in a cold and hostile marriage? Why is someone forced to kill in order to keep those secrets? And why doesn’t Andy Horton tell his boss, the ice maiden, DCI Lorraine Bliss, about his secret – the fact that he’s trying to uncover the truth behind his mother’s disappearance over thirty years ago? Why does he withhold vital information from the head of the major crime team, Detective Superintendent Uckfield?

Along with secrets come lies, and where there are secrets and lies there will be exploitation. It is this exploitation that ultimately leads to murder in SHROUD OF EVILl.

Withholding a secret can hurt, so can revealing it. For Horton revealing his quest to uncover the truth of his mother’s disappearance means exposing his emotions, something he’s learned the hard way never to do because it would make him vulnerable and vulnerability is there to be exploited by others.

Secrets can be kept for years, as they have been by those involved in the murder investigation in SHROUD OF EVIL but it is one person’s determination to expose a secret and exploit it for his own gain that rips apart the fabric of many lives. And once a secret is exposed nothing is ever the same again.

"A compelling protagonist and mounting suspense make the book hard to put down." Publishers Weekly




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