crime novels | crime novels
Oct.19.2011
I was so thrilled to see my DI Andy Horton crime novel Footsteps on the Shore advertised on the London Underground and at major London Railway Stations alongside my fellow crime writer, Mark Billingham's book Good as Dead. This is to promote Portsmouth BookFest during which Mark and I are...
|
Oct.17.2011
I had a great time on the radio last week, talking to David Nove on Angel Radio Isle of Wight and Peter Walkden on Vectis Radio. Thought I'd share some photographs here taken during the radio interviews.
From left to right: Carol Bridgestock, David Nove, Pauline Rowson and Bob Bridgestock
...
|
|
Oct.14.2011
This is just one of the questions lined up to be asked, and answered, at the forthcoming CSI Portsmouth event on Saturday 5 November in Portsmouth, England.
Forensic psychologists Lucy Wainwright and Dr Claire Nee, Director of the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology at...
|
Oct.07.2011
I’m delighted that award wining crime author, John Harvey has agreed to be on the afternoon panel at CSI Portsmouth, where crime fiction meets crime fact, at the John Pounds Centre, Portsmouth on Saturday 5 November.
I consider it a privilege to be appearing with a crime writer whose novels I...
|
|
Sep.30.2011
DI Andy Horton in my marine mystery police procedural crime novels has been described as 'an especially good series hero, a likable fellow with plenty of street smarts and the requisite personal baggage - an abrasive supervisor (DCI Lorraine Bliss) and an antagonistic soon to be ex wife.' ...
|
Sep.17.2011
(Another version of this piece, with a photo, can be found at my official website, A Curious Man.)
I’m unable to find the exact quote, but I recall John Updike once saying that one of the problems with being a prolific, practicing book writer—paid or not, I’ll add—is the little time it leaves for...
|
|
Aug.29.2011
The photo shoot on Saturday on board a beautiful luxury motor boat by kind donation of its owner, went really well and was great fun.
Pauline Rowson getting ready to manoeuvre!
The photographer Nick Masson of Nicholas Charles Photography was superb and made me feel very relaxed. I'...
|
Aug.09.2011
Following the success of a promotion earlier this year on Kindle where my DI Horton novel Blood on the Sand reached number five in the best seller lists on Kindle, my publisher is running a special summer promotion on my marine mystery crime novels featuring DI Horton and my thriller novels on ...
|
|
Aug.03.2011
With the paperback and Kindle versions of Footsteps on the Shore being published in August and September respectively I thought I'd post some photographs of the area where this DI Andy Horton novel is set. I posted some in January when the hardcover was published but here are more pictures taken...
|
Jul.22.2011
Crime has descended on the otherwise respectable spa town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England with an invasion of crime fiction writers and crime fiction fans. Yes, the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Festival , or the Harrogate International Festival as it is now called, has kicked off and runs...
|