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But perhaps you're not familiar with the flawed and rugged Portsmouth based detective. So here is a little bit about Detective Inspector Andy Horton and a list of the Horton crime novels in order.

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FOOTSTEPS ON THE SHORE number six in the Inspector Andy Horton mystery series has been re-released as an e book and available on Amazon Kindle and Kobo. It is also published in paperback and as an unabridged audio book, narrated by Gordon Griffin.

Friday the thirteenth begins badly for DI Andy Horton when he wakes to find his Harley has been vandalized and his boss, DCI Lorraine Bliss, has returned early from her secondment to HQ. Then, convicted murderer, Luke Felton, released on licence, is reported missing and a decomposed corpse is washed up in Portsmouth harbour.  Before Horton can get a grip on either case, he’s called to a house where a woman he’d only met the day before has been brutally murdered. Is missing Luke Felton the prime suspect, or is it his body in the mud of the harbour? Horton is under pressure to get results, but things are about to get much worse for the beleaguered detective.

Like others in the Horton crime series it is set in and around Portsmouth on the south coast of England.

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DEATH LIES BENEATH is a multi-layered Detective Inspector Andy Horton crime novel, number eight in the series of currently 14 and has been re-released in e book format on Amazon Kindle and on Kobo. It is also published in paperback and as an audio book.

Like most of my novels it is inspired by locations in the area where I live and where the novels are set, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. It is also inspired by topical crimes. In this case, metal thefts, fraud, boat salvage operations and more.

In addition, DEATH LIES BENEATH is one of the pivotal novels in the Horton police procedural series because in it Andy Horton discovers something that gives him a lead in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his mother when he was ten. This sets him off on a tortuous journey to find the truth about what really happened to her after she walked out of their council flat in a tower block in inner city Portsmouth one foggy November day in 1978 never to be seen again. Also in DEATH LIES BENEATH Andy’s marriage to Catherine is set to be finally dissolved much to Andy’s sorrow.

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DI Andy Horton mystery crime novel number seven in the series of fourteen A KILLING COAST has been re-released in e book format and is available on Amazon Kindle and on Kobo. It is also published in paperback and audio book.

'Multi-layered, twisted, and complex...a surprising conclusion and a satisfying read.' Booklist

When a body is found floating in the sea off Portsmouth harbour, Detective Inspector Horton initially judges it to be an accidental death. Soon though, to his dismay, he discovers he’s got it very wrong. Accused of being incompetent by his boss, and with the head of the Major Crime Team coming down heavily on him, Horton wonders if he’s allowed his ongoing investigation into the disappearance of his mother over thirty years ago to cloud his judgement. With no clear motive for the murder, Horton is sucked into a baffling investigation that he is determined to resolve despite the odds. Not only does he need to find a brutal killer, but Horton now has to prove to himself, and others, that he is still up to the job.

Read about the inspiration behind A KILLING COAST

Yes, it's countdown time to publication in twenty four days of my first historical mystery, DEATH IN THE COVE, set in 1950 England, a country still struggling after six years of war in the grip of austerity and rationing.  It introduces Inspector Alun Ryga, recently promoted at Scotland Yard, a former Merchant Navy seaman and German prisoner-of-war  who is sent to the Island of Portland in Dorset to solve an unusual and baffling case.

DEATH IN THE COVE is published in paperback, e book, on Kindle and Kobo and as an audio book on 26 September 2019.  It is available to pre-order.

September sees the re-release of four of my Inspector Andy Horton crime novels as ebooks on Amazon Kindle and Kobo, DEATH LIES BENEATH,(8) A KILLING COAST, (9) UNDERCURRENT (10) and DEATH SURGE (11).

Also in September the publication of my new 1950 set historical crime novel DEATH IN THE COVE introducing Inspector Alun Ryga and a talk to Westbourne WI.

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