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Apr.01.2013
Footsteps on the Shore, the sixth in the DI Andy Horton series, was published in Large Print on 28 March by Severn House Publishers in the UK and will be published in Large Print in the USA on 30 May 2013.  It is already available as an e book on Kindle, Kobo and Nook, in paperback and...
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Mar.19.2013
On Saturday night I appeared on the Arts and Culture Show on Voice FM talking to the radio presenter Xan Phillips about my marine mystery crime novels, the inspiration behind my flawed and rugged detective DI Andy Horton, the latest in the Horton series, Undercurrent and the importance of...
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Sep.17.2012
I'm delighted to announce that I have signed a contract with my publisher Severn House for the next in the DI Andy Horton series of marine mystery crime novels set on the South Coast of England. Undercurrent is the ninth crime novel to feature the flawed and rugged DI Andy Horton and is set...
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Jul.25.2012
The eighth in the DI Andy Horton series of marine mystery crime police procedural novels, Death Lies Beneath is officially published today in the UK in hardcover by Severn House.  It will be published in the USA in November. Death Lies Beneath by Pauline Rowson When ex con, Daryl Woodley is...
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Jul.01.2012
On 5 July I am to be guest crime author at the annual conference of the British Society of Criminology taking place at the University of Portsmouth, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, (ICJS). I'll be appearning on a panel on the afternoon of 5 July with my fellow crime writers, Graham Hurley...
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Jun.11.2012
In fact it's been more than a weekend of writing because for much of the holiday week in Britain I have been busy working on the final chapters of the next DI Horton crime novel, number nine in the series. It's always a race to get those final chapters bashed out onto the computer, with lots...
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Apr.13.2012
Here is the cover image for the new DI Andy Horton crime novel Death Lies Beneath, which will be published in the UK in July 2012. It is the eighth in the DI Horton series. When ex con, Daryl Woodley is found dead on the marshes bordering Langstone Harbour the Intelligence Directorate...
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Mar.15.2012
My publisher, Severn House, has brought forward the publication of the next DI Andy Horton crime novel, number eight in the series,  Death Lies Beneath.  Death Lies Beneath will be published in the UK in July 2012.  A Killing Coast number seven in the series, was published in the UK...
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Mar.05.2012
As many readers know the Horton series is set primarily in Portsmouth, England but Horton's investigations often take him out into the Solent and to the Isle of Wight. Here are some photographs of the places that are featured in the crime novel, A Killing Coast by Pauline Rowson. In A Killing...
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Feb.20.2012
I'm not usually one of those authors who set targets for the number of words written in a day or a week but over the weekend I wanted to hit the 10,000 mark of the DI Horton crime novel I'm currently writing, which is number nine in the series.  I'm sorry to say I failed but only by 400...