What is the first Inspector Andy Horton crime novel and the latest by Pauline Rowson?
His marriage has broken up and he's living on board his small yacht in a marina in Portsmouth on the South Coast of England. Out running in the early morning of a foggy August Bank Holiday Monday he almost trips over the naked body of a man on the Portsmouth beach. Horton has a murder to solve and a point to prove, he is still a good cop. Determined to clear his name and re-establish his reputation, Horton finds his personal problems sidelined as he sets out to find a ruthless killer.
Chosen by Amazon as the Best of Crime Fiction 2006
But you don't have to begin with the first in the Andy Horton series if you don't wish to because in each Inspector Andy Horton police procedural crime novel there is a new crime for the flawed and rugged detective to investigate. There is also from book three onward, THE SUFFOCATING SEA, the drama of Andy's quest to discover the truth behind his mother's disappearance (Jennifer Horton) who disappeared one foggy day when Andy was ten..
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It can never be determined which book in the series a reader might buy or borrow from a library so I need to weave in Andy Horton's back story and his personal quest enough so that the new reader can pick it up but not too much so that it bores the reader who has read the Horton series from the beginning. Some readers have told me that they've discovered Andy Horton in a later book in the series and then having done so have gone back to the beginning and read them in sequence.
Here is what some reviewers have said of my enigmatic detective, Inspector Andy Horton:
"The Harley Davidson–riding, houseboat-dwelling Horton is a fascinating man to get to know, and his thoughtful approach to detection is a pleasure to read." Publishers Weekly
'Andy Horton is an especially good series hero, a likeable fellow with plenty of street smarts and the requisite personal baggage – an abrasive supervisor and an antagonistic soon-to-be ex-wife. Procedural fans who haven’t already read Rowson should be encouraged to do so in the strongest possible terms.’ Booklist, Starred Review
Number fifteen in the Inspector Andy Horton series
Set against the backdrop of the sea on
the South Coast of England in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.As DI Andy Horton follows the trail of a man found dead in a log cabin on the Isle of Wight, he uncovers some startling revelations into his own mother’s past and the truth behind her disappearance over thirty years ago.
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The DI Andy Horton novels in order:
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