Meet Art Marvik in these gripping thrillers

It's a packed year and a dangerous and deadly one for undercover agent Art Marvik. He’s earned the scars on his face as a commando in the Marines, now he’s working undercover for the UK Police National Intelligence Marine Squad.

February

DEADLY WAVES (1) introduces Art Marvik, undercover agent working for the UK Police Marine Intelligence Squad, in the first of this mystery thriller series. 

In DEADLY WAVES, Marvik has been invalided out of the Royal Marines, after a very active and dangerous career as a Special Boat Services Officer. He's at a loss of what to do next in his life, misssng the adrenalin of danger and the cameraderie of his fellow marines.

He's tucked himself away in  a remote cottage on the Isle of Wight uncertain of the future when former marine colleague, Special Services Communications Officer, Shaun Strathen, renews Marvik’s acquaintance and asks for his help to locate a missing research scientist. 

Strathen has also been injured in combat and invalided out of the marines. He’s set himself up as a specialist security consultant and, with a prosthetic leg, seems to have adjusted to life better than Marvik. 

Failing to locate the missing research scientist, Marvik returns on his motor cruiser to his cottage to find he has a visitor, a former girlfriend and a navy nurse, Charlotte Churley, who insists she’s being followed. She also tells him that a dying serviceman has told her his father had been wrongly convicted of murder some years ago. Marvik is ready to dismiss this as a symptom of overwork until Charlotte goes missing. Then Marvik finds himself being used as bait to catch a killer before he can kill again.

Charlotte's news sets Marvik off on a journey to clear an innocent man of murder. Along with this Marvik has a missing ex girlfriend and computer scientist to find. Are these linked?   I'll leave you to find out.

March 

In DANGEROUS CARGO (2) Marvik is plunged into another assignment and an equally if not more dangerous one than his first for the National Inteligence Marine Squad. Marvik is despatched to the seaside town of Swanage in Dorset after the body of a man, Bradley Pulford is found washed up on a beach on the Isle of Wight. But according to police records, Pulford died in Singapore fifty-five years ago. So who is the dead man? And why did he steal Pulford’s identity?

Marvik is sent to the last place Pulford is known to have been. He worked in Swanage in the early 1990s for a Dorset fishing family, the Killbecks. He fathered a son with their niece and then disappeared.

The Killbecks claim they know little about Pulford. Marvik suspects they have something to hide. And it’s up to him to find out what.

Then an innocent woman is killed.  Now Marvik must go full-throttle against a gang of villains as ruthless as they are deadly if he has any hopes of catching a killer.

April

How do you find a ghost ship once the trail has gone cold? And how do you locate it if it has been lost in the frozen seas of the Arctic? 

in LOST VOYAGE (3) Art Marvik receives a panicked phone call from Helen Shannon, who he'd met on his first mission for the UK Police National Intelligence Marine Squad in February (DEADLY WAVES #1). She overheard two men plotting a murder and now fears she’s being followed.

Marvik thinks Helen’s suffering from PTSD after her sister’s murder. But he has a soft spot for her and he agrees to help.

Then Helen’s boss’s body is discovered in her flat with his throat slashed.

Marvik is convinced that Helen is being framed for murder. But why?  Because she really did overheard that conversation? Who are those men? Before he can prove her innocence, he’s detailed by his boss, Detective Superintendent Crowder to investigate the disappearance of a salvage vessel that went missing years ago. The Mary Jo never reached her destination.  Now someone claims to have found her over a decade later. 

It is a claim that leads to a trail of deaths because the secret of the Mary Jo must never be revealed. Marvik, working undercover, is tasked to discover what that deadly secret is and in so doing locate and stop a ruthless assassin.

Marvik’s got a lot on his plate. The stakes are high and the death toll is rising. Who will be next?

May

It's May and  things are about to get personal for Art Marvik in FATAL DEPTHS. In a previous investigation (DANGEROUS CARGO #2) he had been investigating the death of a woman on the Dorset coast when he discovered in her possessions a ripped-out notebook with his late father's handwriting on it. A mysterious disk was taped inside the back cover. Marvik hasn't time to investigate what this means. He's busy on dangerous missions working undercover for the UK Police National Intelligence Marine Squad. So he puts it away in his London bank for safekeeping.

When he's completed his third mission (LOST VOYAGE #3)  he decides it's time to get his colleague and former Royal Marine Commando, Special Intelligence Officer, Shaun Strathen to open the disk, only the disk has gone from his safe deposit box along with the notebook.

Marvik has reason to believe the package contains information about his parents, who were killed in an underwater explosion during a Ministry of Defence mission near the Nordic coast. Marvik is certain the theft and murdered woman have something to do with his parents. But what?

Then a bomb is planted in his home.

Someone is out to kill. And Marvik’s clearly in their sights.

September 

Art Marvik, a battle-hardened commando with the scars to prove it is used to high-stakes operations, but nothing has prepared him for what awaits in LETHAL STORM (5)  in the coastal town of Ballycotton, Ireland . . .

Marvik receives a disturbing call from the Garda. His friend and former comrade, Shaun Strathen, is missing. His yacht’s been found drifting in Ballyandreen Bay. But there’s no sign of Strathen.

A cryptic note is discovered onboard: Art, sorry it’s come to this. Look after things for me. Per Mare, Per Terram.

Marvik wastes no time. He heads straight for Ireland, determined to find his friend. His search leads him to a cottage by the sea. A decomposing body is discovered inside.

It’s not Strathen.

If the body isn’t his comrade’s, then who is it? And where the hell is Strathen?

As Marvik digs deeper, the truth begins to unravel, but so do the dangers.

Can Marvik survive this lethal storm long enough to expose a network of criminal masterminds, and save his friend?

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 ‘A tense, terrifying thrill ride that twists and turns with dizzying speed. A cracking good new series; action fans need Marvik on their radar.’ Booklist

‘The sort of book where you can't look away for a second, or you’ll be sunk, so to speak. Pauline Rowson is the queen of misdirection in this outing for former marine Art Marvik.’ Crime Review

‘Rowson strikes a nice balance between thriller and puzzler.’ Kirkus

 ‘The twists and turns made it quite intriguing and the characters seemed so real.’ Pam G.

‘Really impressed with it. The main character, Art Marvik, makes a very interesting change from the normal crime thriller.’ L.J. Leader

‘A fascinating new character . . . full of twists and turns.’ Amazon customer

‘What a story! The amount of research is incredible. Love Art, great new hero. More please.’ Amazon customer