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Inspector Andy Horton on investigation at the Isle of Wight Festival

DEATH
LIES BENEATH, number eight in the Detective Inspector Andy Horton
series of police procedural mysteries. It is set in June when the famous
Isle of Wight Festival takes place. Horton's investigations take him
from Portsmouth across the Solent on the Wightlink ferry to the Isle of
Wight and to the festival itself.



"Pauline Rowson is an excellent constructor of false trails and DEATH
LIES BENEATH is no exception. Carefully plotted, Andy Horton is a
likeable if flawed character." Mysteries in Paradise



The Isle of Wight Festival 2019 takes place from 13 to 16 June.




Click on the above title link and read the extract when DI Horton is at the Isle of
Wight Festival with Agent Harriet Eames from Europol.






Read an extract of Death Lies Beneath when Inspector Andy Horton's investigations take him to the Isle of Wight Festival

Join Inspector Andy Horton at the Isle of Wight Festival

DEATH LIES BENEATH, number eight in the Detective Inspector Andy Horton series of police procedural mysteries is set in June when the famous Isle of Wight Festival takes place and Horton's investigations take him from Portsmouth across the Solent on the Wightlink ferry to the Isle of Wight and to the festival itself.

The Isle of Wight Festival 2019 takes place from 13 to 16 June.




Click on the above title link to join DI Andy Horton at the Isle of Wight Festival and read an extract

Throwback to 2016 - Pauline Rowson on air BBC Radio Solent

Three years ago I was delighted to be on the Julian Clegg Breakfast Show BBC Radio Solent on 7 June 2016 talking about my DI Andy Horton crime novels set in the Solent area and launching number 2 in the Art Marvik mystery thriller series, Dangerous Cargo, published on 31 May 2016.




Dangerous Cargo is now published in paperback, as an ebook, on Amazon Kindle and on Kobo and was released as an audio book this year (2019) narrated excellently by Peter Noble.




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DI Andy Horton is an enigma, reliable but sometimes unreachable, a little lost, but knows what he wants! My fav. kind of DI

That's how one reader describes Inspector Andy Horton who is featured in 14 crime novels with DEAD PASSAGE the latest to have been published in October 2018. It's a great description and sums Andy up perfectly. To me and to many of my readers, DI Andy Horton is, of course, a hero. But not a perfect one, far from it. Who is?

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 RAF Police Officer and Hampshire fire-fighter from Red Watch, Portsmouth, UK, who took many risks and saved many lives throughout his career. It’s no wonder then that I turned to writing about a hero.

 

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The story behind Death Lies Beneath - An Inspector Andy Horton crime novel

DEATH LIES BENEATH is a multi-layered Detective Inspector Andy Horton crime novel, number eight in the series of currently 14. It is inspired by locations in the area where I live and where the novels are set, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight and by topical crimes. In this case, metal thefts, fraud, boat salvage operations and more.





DEATH LIES BENEATH is also one of the pivotal novels in the Horton police procedural series because in it Andy Horton discover something that gives him a lead in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his mother when he was ten.  This sets him off  on a tortuous journey to find the truth about what really happened to her after she walked out of their council flat in a tower block in inner city Portsmouth one foggy November day in 1978 never to be seen again. Also in DEATH LIES BENEATH Andy’s marriage to Catherine is set to be finally dissolved much to Andy’s sorrow.



"A fast paced excellent
mystery, with an interesting diverse set of characters, and an
intriguing hook at the end that has me eagerly awaiting the next installment in this series.Highly recommended." Mystery People

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What's on in June 2019

June 2019 sees me undertake a library talk, location research, revisions, walking, writing and thinking time.



Yes, here I am gazing into the distance in my office wondering what Inspector Andy Horton's going to do next. With Andy you never know.









Read more about what's on in June 2019 for me by clicking on the above title.

Shroud of Evil now available as an audio book watch the book trailer

Shroud of Evil, number eleven in the Inspector Andy Horton crime series
of currently fourteen is now available as an audio book, published by
Soundings, narrated by Gordon Griffin.  It is also available in
paperback, as an ebook on Amazon Kindle and Kobo.






Watch the book trailer video of  DI Andy Horton murder mystery novel, Shroud of Evil.

Will DI Andy Horton finally learn the truth behind his mother's disappearance?

I'm currently working on DI Andy Horton number 15 in which Andy has a new investigation to undertake and yes it is one that leads him to discovering the truth behind his mother's disappearance over thirty years go. My patient (and not so patient readers) will finally get to find out what happened to Jennifer Horton and might possibly be surprised. This might also be the last DI Andy Horton. Although then again...



Meanwhile if you haven't tried the DI Andy Horton crime novels then there are plenty to catch up on. DEAD PASSAGE, (number 14) was published in October 2018.






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Applying the Page 69 test to DI Andy Horton mystery, Shroud of Evil

The first I heard of the page 69 test was when a member of the public approached me in a bookshop where I was doing a book signing and said she always applied it when deciding which crime novel to purchase. She didn’t buy one of my novels so I’d obviously failed to reach her exacting standards, whatever they were. I thrust it from my mind, only to be reminded of it recently when asked to contribute to a blog. So I browsed the Internet to find out who was responsible for this particular form of literary torture. The answer was the writer Marshall McLuhan championed more recently by John Sutherland in How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide. Do we really need instructions on how to read a novel?



I turned to Page 69 in Inspector Andy Horton Shroud of Evil and duly applied the test.









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