Mystery Novels | Mystery Novels
Apr.16.2013
I was trying to recall how many times I have visited the London Book Fair and have to admit that I can't. I do however remember that the first time I visited the London Book Fair was in 1998. It's hard for me to believe that it was that long ago. My first impressions then were that...
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Feb.21.2013
This week I visited one of the locations featured in the new DI Andy Horton mystery crime novel, Undercurrent, to thank Dr Gordon Watson of the Institute of Marine Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Portsmouth University for his assistance with my research for the novel. It was a glorious...
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Jan.29.2013
The fourth in the DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime series, Dead Man's Wharf, is to be published in China within the next couple of weeks by Nanhai Publishing Company of Haikou.
Nanhai Publishing bought translation rights to six novels in the DI Horton series published in the UK, Commonwealth...
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Nov.23.2012
My fictional detective, DI Andy Horton, is based in Portsmouth and the Solent area on the South Coast of England. The Solent is the busiest waterway in Europe and one of the busiest in the world with around one million commercial and naval shipping movements and in excess of 10 million...
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Apr.14.2012
I was a guest author on a mystery panel at a local library last week, and we were asked the question: How much do you read while you are writing a book,and do you worry that what you are reading will influence your writing?
I read constantly. I read before I go to sleep, while I eat lunch, in...
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Dec.01.2011
Although I’m a self-proclaimed “E-BOOK BOOKIE” I must confess that I’ve only read five books on my Kindle. (Richard II, Lysistrata, The Art of War, Aesop’s Fables, and Richard Stark’s bleak and violent heist novel The Score.)
I much prefer the heft and feel and convenience (yes,...
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Nov.27.2011
Morgen Bailey, the talented and intrepid Brit interviewer, asked me what happened on my tenth birthday morning. How did she know?
Lou: Perhaps it started on my tenth birthday in Cleveland in 1955. “Wake up, Louise. Georgia has been murdered. I want you to go to the store for bacon.”
Morgen:...
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Aug.31.2011
"The hunchback of Notre Dame with a Rastafarian haircut. Cute," Belle Palmer observed as a six-pound bundle of coppery fur with a woolly chest squirrelled past, leaped to pose standing on thin, shaved legs on a rocky outcrop, and then sprang...
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Aug.06.2011
I’ve been informed that my mystery/thriller novel, With Full Malice, has been sent to the publisher’s art department for a cover.
How exciting!
The director said they’ll design a cover, then create the ARCs for reviews.
I can’t wait to see the cover. Will it be dramatic? Intriguing? Will it...
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Jul.12.2011
We Are Always In the Same Leaky Rowboat
I love listening to books and lectures on tape while I drive. Listening, while driving and dialing my cellphone trying not to spill my beer as I negotiate one-lane construction traffic behind a schoolbus is one of the joys and challenges...
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