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POSTED BY: PAULINE ROWSON
AUGUST 16TH, 2019 AT 7:25:31 BST
Inspector Andy Horton's on the hunt for a missing man during Cowes Week
DEATH SURGE is set during the International sailing regatta of Cowes Week, which in 2019 runs from 10 August to 17 August.
Cowes Week has been held in early August every year since 1826, except during the two world wars. It is sometimes delayed a week to take into account the tides or, as in 2012, to avoid a clash with the Olympic Games. In 2016, it followed the Americas Cup which took part in the Solent, off Portsmouth, on 22 - 24 July. Over the years Cowes Week has attracted British and foreign royalty, and many famous faces- including Inspector Andy Horton.
The novel opens with Andy Horton sailing off the Isle of Wight on his yacht during Cowes Week when a call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli, to say his nephew is missing brings Horton back to investigate.POSTED BY: PAULINE ROWSON
AUGUST 12TH, 2019 AT 7:19:25 BST
DI Andy Horton and Art Marvik country from space
Celebrating fifty years of stepping on to the moon's surface this year I thought it apt to upload an image of what Inspector Andy Horton's patch looks like from space! And yes, I know some of my readers will suggest he sends his alpha female nit-picking boss DCI Lorraine Bliss up there. Part of the coastline you can see is also where some of the Art Marvik mystery thriller novels are set, and my two standalone thrillers. You can click on the image to enlarge it.POSTED BY: PAULINE ROWSON
AUGUST 9TH, 2019 AT 7:30:40 BST
Undercurrent, DI Andy Horton at the Scene of Crime on a wet August night
A wet August night and Inspector Andy Horton is returning from London to Portsmouth when police cars on blue lights race past him on the motorway. Nothing unusual in that but as Horton heads for the small yacht on which he lives he sees the police vehicles pulled up outside Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard and draws to a halt.
Read about the inspiration behind Undercurrent, see the photographs and read an extract
POSTED BY: PAULINE ROWSON
AUGUST 5TH, 2019 AT 6:11:40 BST
What's on in August 2019
It might be summer outside but in my mind I'm deep in winter with the second Inspector Alun Ryga 1950 set mystery. In fact it's almost Christmas! Perhaps it will help to keep me cool as the temperature rises. The first Inspector Ryga mystery, DEATH IN THE COVE is now available to pre-order in paperback, on Kindle, Kobo and as an audio book. It is set in 1950 England, a country still struggling to come to terms peace in the grip of austerity and rationing.
Pre-order your copy now. Published on 26 September 2019
August also gives me the chance to feature two of my DI Andy Horton crime novels set during that month - the summer heat is obviously causing a crime wave for my flawed and rugged detective with a high crime rate in his home coastal city of Portsmouth, England!
POSTED BY: PAULINE ROWSON
AUGUST 1ST, 2019 AT 7:55:53 BST