Murder at the manor house with crime author Pauline Rowson


The Rhinefield House Hotel was the perfect setting for murder mystery as I entertained the gentlemen of Brockenhurst and District Probus Club with tales of my crime busting heroes, the flawed and rugged Inspector Andy Horton and superhero, Art Marvik.


Pauline Rowson talking to Brockenhurst Probus at Rhinefield House, New Forest

 My talk was given in an amazing oak panelled room complete with elaborate chandelier and a gigantic stone fire place that was large enough to accommodate a corpse or three. Rhinefield House in the New Forest was built by a Nottingham collier for his daughter. With its numerous rooms she must have rattled around in it!  Now an hotel it is also the venue for weddings and other functions and it was a rather wet summer's day when I arrived to talk to the Brockenhurst Probus Club about my crime novels and how I write them.


Brockenhurst Probus, Crime author, Pauline Rowson demonstrating her plot lines


I explained how I research my crime novels, including the police and forensic research and how I create my characters and draw up plot lines. There was a lively question and answer session which was followed by a book signing.


Brockenhurst Probus, Pauline Rowson explaining how she writes her crime novels

 I now have eighteen crime novels published, thirteen featuring the rugged and flawed Portsmouth detective, Inspector Andy Horton, three in the new series featuring superhero Art Marvik, a former Royal Marine Commando now an undercover investigator for the UK's National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS) and two standalone thrillers, the award winning, In Cold Daylight and In For the Kill.


Pauline Rowson signing her crime novels at Brockenhurst Probus

My latest crime novel, Lost Voyage, the third in the Art Marvik series is published in the UK in hardcover by Severn House Publishers (10July 2017). It will be published in the USA and released as an ebook on the 1 November 2017.




About Rhinefield House


On the engagement of his only child and heiress, Mabel, to Lieut.-Commander Edward Munro, Thomas Walker, a wealthy coal mine owner of Eastwood Hall, Nottinghamshire built Rhinefield House in 1885 at a cost of £250,000. Coal for Rhinefield House was brought by rail, to Brockenhurst station, in coal wagons bearing the name of the Walker’s Colliery in Nottinghamshire. Rhinefield estate staff were conveyed, to and from, the village in an Armstrong Siddley vehicle, similar to a mini-bus. On their deaths, Mr. Walker-Munro in 1920, and Mrs. Walker-Munro in 1934, the bodies were interned in the grounds of their Home Farm, Ober Farm. The Walker-Munro family did not vacate Rhinefield until after the Second World War, when the lease of the house was sold and it was used as a school. Later it became The Rhinefield House Hotel, and featured in the Southern Television filming of Ruth Rendell’s book, ‘Some Lie and Some Die’.  

Our thanks to John Purkess for the above information.

Rhinefield House Hotel, New Forest

Where to buy

Pauline Rowson's books USA

Pauline Rowson's books UK

From your local bookshop


Also available as an ebook and on Amazon Kindle, Kobo and for loan from UK, USA, Irish and Commonwealth libraries


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