I've updated the map (October 2020) of where the Inspector Andy
Horton mystery crime novels are set to include number fifteen in the
series featuring the flawed and rugged Portsmouth detective, A DEADLY
WAKE, published in June 2020 in paperback, e book, Amazon Kindle and
Kobo.
A body on a burning boat leads Horton into an investigation that has startling personal consequences. As Horton is forced to confront his past he's faced with a dangerous adversary who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from coming out...
Selected as the "Best of British Crime Fiction" by The Book Depository
"A gripping, suspense-filled murder case...an entertaining read in an engaging series..." Booklist
Paperback, ebook, Amazon Kindle
Yes, we're on the countdown to publication of Inspector Ryga #2 DEATH IN THE HARBOUR on 2 November 2020.
Here
I am on a very wet day in June 2016 on the coast of Dorset featured in
Marvik mystery thriller 2 DANGEROUS CARGO. It was my second visit to
the area, the first was to undertake some location research while
working on the novel
The small country town of Fordingbridge in the New Forest on the banks
of the River Avon once famous for its smuggling and the infamous Captain
Diamond, the 'Smuggler King', was the location for another crime this
time fictional when I entertained readers at
Fordingbridge Library with tales of my fictional crime busting
heroes, Inspector Andy Horton and undercover investigator, Art Marvik on Thursday 19 October 2017. 
Ryga's experience at sea, and as a prisoner-of-war, has made him unique in his approach to solving coastal based crimes. He's observant, analytical and reflective. He's witnessed compassion, cruelty, cowardice and heroism, mental breakdown and despair. He’s made a promise to himself that whatever happens after the war he’ll keep an open mind and never judge.
Whereas Ryga is quiet, reflective, analytical, Eva is very self-assured. She’s forthright, sociable, and comfortable in her own skin, professional with a successful career, a formidable reputation behind her, along with a taste for danger. Her observations seen through the lens of her camera are disturbing, enlightening and thought provoking.
Yes, my two early mystery thrillers IN COLD DAYLIGHT and IN FOR THE KILL are now available on Amazon Kindle Unlimited for FREE so if you are new to my books or haven't read my early ones and you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited now is your chance to try them. They are also available to buy on Amaon in paperback and on Kindle download for some fabulous prices.
For Alex Albury the nightmare that destroyed his life will only end in
death; his or his tormentor’s. With its twists and turns the reader is
sucked into a frightening and totally believable world of deception,
betrayal and revenge in a highly topical story that has its roots deep
in the past.
"A change of direction at every turn. Keep notes on all the players. If
you like Jeffery Deaver, you'll love this story. The best mystery I've
ever read by a female author." Amazon 5* Review
"Rowson weaves terrific plots around memorable characters. Her writing is as
sharp as a punch in the ribs. Attention-grabbing. Compulsive. Next one
please!" Hampshire Life Magazine.
I
first fell in love with the Royal Island of Portland in Dorset while
researching for one of my Art Marvik mystery thrillers, DANGEROUS CARGO,
no. 2 in the series, which is set on the Jurassic coast of Dorset. I
was so taken with the island's rugged coastline, its wild beauty,
scarred landscape of abandoned quarries and isolated bays that I felt
compelled to set another crime novel there, this time Portland of the
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Here is where Dangerous Cargo is set and the details of Marvik's mission. |
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A rocky setting for Art Marvik in the thriller, Dangerous Cargo |
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Swanage on the Dorset Coast, where crime novel, Dangerous Cargo opens |
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Swanage Bay where Art Marvik anchors up in Dangerous Cargo |
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Marvik is on a mission to solve a 50 year old mystery |
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Dorset, the setting for Marvik Mystery, Dangerous Cargo |
It can also be loaned from UK, Commonwealth and USA libraries.
'Rowson’s superhero, Art Marvik, returns in another pulse-pounding adventure. Delivering more than enough action to keep adrenaline junkies reading.' Booklist
'Marvik's second outing is even more muscular than his debut, as Rowson edges her detective puzzles ever closer to thriller territory.' Kirkus Reviews USA
Former Royal Marine Commando, Special Boat Services Officer, Art Marvik is tough, highly trained, fearless, intelligent and fit. Injuries inflicted while in combat have forced him to leave the Marines and seek a new life in Civvy Street. He thought he’d be able to adjust and carve out a new career for himself on the sea, but his first job as a private maritime security operative goes very wrong when the luxury motor cruiser he was travelling on and had been detailed to guard, gets attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean, and Marvik finds himself with a bullet in his shoulder and the boat’s owner dead. He failed on his first mission in civilian life, and SILENT RUNNING the first in the Marvik mystery thriller series, opens with him reeling from it.
Soon though he is launched on a new and dangerous career working as an undercover investigator for the UK's secret law enforcement
agency, the National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS) headed by Detective Superintendent Philip Crowder. Marvik is aided in his investigations by his former Royal Marine colleague, communications, surveillance and IT expert, amputee, Shaun Strathen.
Marvik’s task is to go in to investigations comparatively cold with minimal information from Crowder even though Crowder knows more. But Marvik’s role is to ask questions, to stir up trouble, to provoke a killer into the open and to risk his life in doing so. Marvik is no stranger to staring death in the face. He’s been doing it all his adult life.
His biggest fear is being injured and incapacitated, being weak and having to rely on others. Fiercely independent and resilient since the age of seventeen when his parents - his mother a renowned marine archaeologist and his father an equally renowned oceanographer- were killed in a underwater explosion in the Straits of Malacca, Marvik’s family became the Marines. Now that family has gone.
Marvik knows the sea intimately having spent much of his life on and under it. His missions for the National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS) take him across the Solent and along the south coast of England, forcing him out of isolation in his remote cottage on the Isle of Wight and as the missions increase so too the danger to him personally. But Marvik is smart and tough. He can operate outside the law and does so because the job demands it. He’s not always right though. He makes mistakes, he misjudges people. Sometimes the consequences are shocking and disturbing.
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The Art Marvik mystery thrillers by Pauline Rowson |
I've updated the map (October 2020) of where the Inspector Andy Horton mystery crime novels are set to include number fifteen in the s...
