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I'm delighted that my latest DI Andy Horton, Footsteps on the Shore , published in the UK in January and in the USA this month (May) has been given a star rated excellent review in America by top American reviewer Booklist who has compared it, and my writing, to best selling crime authors in the US Ed McBain and Joseph Wambaugh and in the UK to Peter Robinson and John Harvey. Booklist, has heaped praise on the latest in the DI Andy Horton series claiming it to be ‘outstanding’ and ‘it deserves mention in the same breath as works in the upper echelons of both American procedurals (those by McBain or Joseph Wambaugh, for example.).’ Ed McBain laid down the formula that defined the urban police novel and Wambaugh is a best selling American crime author who is also creator of Police Story , NBC-TV, 1973-1977 and The Blue Knight , NBC-TV, 1977. The review from Booklist says, ‘Andy Horton is an especially good series hero, a likable fellow with plenty of street smarts and the...

I've received an e mail from my publisher to say that American reviewer Booklist has given my latest Inspector Horton marine mystery crime novel Blood on the Sand a great review. I’m delighted and hopefully they are too. Reviews come in the shape of the good, the bad and the ugly, and every writer, artist, actor, and musician gets a variety of them. The bad can be wounding, the ugly deeply upsetting and the good uplifting, inspiring, and encouraging, so no prizes for guessing which I prefer. Like all writers I get a fair share of all three types of reviews. Being published it goes with the territory. But as this is my blog I won’t dwell on the bad and the ugly, I am sure you can find those for yourself, so here is the review I’ve just received from Booklist. I make no apology for posting it here, everyone needs a little pat on the back from time to time even us sensitive souls, writers. Review for Blood on the Sand ‘In the fifth Marine Mystery, Detective Inspector Andy H...

I'm pleased to say that The Suffocating Sea , the third in the Inspector Horton Marine Mystery series of crime novels set in the Solent area, is to be published in Large Print in September. It will be available to buy via the Internet and on order from bookshops. It will, of course, also be available from libraries certainly in the UK and I believe also in America. I have been told that the talking book or audio version and download of The Suffocating Sea is also being published but I'm yet to have a date for this. When I do get one I will post something here and on my web site at http://www.rowmark.co.uk/ The Suffocating Sea was recently chosen by The Book Depository as one of ten 'Best of British Crime Fiction.' The Suffocating Sea DI Horton is called to investigate a suspicious fire on board a boat, but as soon as he arrives at the marina he experiences a premonition so strong that it’s almost audible. As he views the charred remains of the dead man he knows ins...