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One of the Isle of Wight's best-loved historic landmarks, Bembridge Windmill , which is 300 years old, is marking its 50th anniversary in the care of the National Trust on Sunday June 19 with a special community day.  Bembridge is the home of Alex Albury, the protagonist in my thriller In For The Kill and in the opening chapters you will find Alex stretching his legs on the walk from the windmill across the RSPB nature reserve and into Brading after being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit. There he meets Deeta, who features in the thriller and without wanting to give anything away there is a scene in the novel reminiscent of the one with Cary Grant in North by North West (a great Hitchock film)  where Alex is forced to run for his life to where the Windmill stands. In For The Kill is a compelling, gripping tale of what happens to one man when someone steals his identity. Alex Albury, newly released from Camp Hill Prison on the Isle of...

Murder, treachery, deceit and betrayal set against the backdrop of the south coast and the Solent? It must be another case for DI Andy Horton .  I'll be appearing at the Isle of Arts Festival Ventnor at the splendid Royal Hotel ,Ventnor on Sunday 17 April at 4pm. Tickets cost £3.00 I'll be revealing what inspires me and how I research and write my crime and thriller novels, two of which are set on the Isle of Wight, the DI Horton crime novel Blood on the Sand and the thriller, In For The Kill. All my crime novels and thrillers are set around the Solent area, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. I do hope some of you can join me on the Isle of Wight and I look forward to the talk at the Royal Hotel , a magnificent hotel. Tickets can also be purchase on the door there.

I was pleased to receive the Turkish edition of my thriller In For The Kill at the weekend. In For The Kill is published in Turkey by Babıali Kültür Yayıncılığı one of the country’s leading publishers.  I like the jacket cover. Here is the link to In For The Kill on their web site  for those of you who speak Turkish perhaps you could translate for me! Alex Albury, eşi ve çocuklarıyla mutlu bir hayat sürmektedir. Başarılı olduğu bir işi vardır. Her şeye sahip olduğunu düşündüğü bir anda kendisini dolandırıcılık ve zimmete para geçirme iftirasıyla hapishanede bulur. Şartlı salıverilmesine kadar aradan geçen üç buçuk yılın sonunda Alex, bu karalamayı yapan kişiyi bulmaktan başka bir şey düşünmemektedir. Hakkında bildiği tek şey ise ismidir: James Andover. Ama Andover kimdir? Nerededir? Alex, Andover’ın izini bulmak için araştırmalarına başlar ama her dönemeçte sonuçsuz ipuçlarıyla yolu kesilir. İşlenen yeni cinayetlerle kendisi gün geçtikçe daha da şüpheli bir konuma düş...

I read yesterday that an unpublished novel by Enid Blyton had been discovered in an archive more than 40 years after her death.  Like many people I was enthralled by Enid Blyton's Secret Seven and Famous Five series and it was Enid Blyton who inspired me to write my first novel aged 11.  I've no idea what happened to it.  I think my mum must have thrown it out, but who knows, one day it might be discovered in an attic somewhere.  If it is, somehow I don't think it will cause quite the same stir as the discovery of an unpublished Enid Blyton!  And neither will the discovery of several unpublished novels I have lurking in my cupboard.  For many years before creating my rugged and flawed detective DI Andy Horton and my crime thriller novels , I wrote historical sagas and a suspense novel.  And in my cupboard they will continue to lurk. I have no intention of resurrecting them and rewriting and editing them.  I class t...

Read an e Book Week 6 - 12 March 2011 is coming round again and some might ask whether we need a week set aside to promote the benefits of reading an e book because they are now so popular.  But although the purpose of  Read an E Book Week is the same as when it was first devised, i.e. to encourage people to read e books this year also sees it celebrating the fortieth anniversary since the first e book was created. Amazing?  Yes.  You can read all about it on the Read an E Book Week web site. I have supported this initiative for the last two years and am again supporting it this year.  Visitors to my web site (and here) will be able to download  Chapter One of Dead Man's Wharf which is published in mass market paperback on 11 March.  It is already available in hardcover, as an e book, on Kindle and as an unbridged audio book. I hope you enjoy the tatster of Dead Man's Wharf  .  Plus check out the Read an E Book Wee...

In a previous blog I wrote about my central character in my marine mystery crime series,  Inspector Andy Horton . Here I focus on the main character in my thriller novel, In For The Kill , Alex Albury. A strong central character is someone the reader can have empathy with, someone they can sometimes get angry and frustrated with. Someone they can get close to and believe in.  As one reader of In For The Kill put it, 'I loved Alex Albury.  He didn't always do what I wanted him to do but then that's what makes a good novel.' The author needs to know what has shaped the main character; his background, family, education and experiences. Alex's life had been easy, he had a comfortable upbringing, a doting mother, a wife, two sons, a beautiful house on the River Hamble and a successful business. He had a reputation, love and money until one day the police arrested him for something he didn't do and his life crumbles before him. He loses everything, even, as he...

After bashing away at the keyboard over Christmas and the New Year I decided it was time to get out in the fresh air and exercise the legs instead of the fingers.  Yesterday my husband and I took off for the Isle of Wight where many of you know that a couple of my crime novels are set. Blood on the Sand an Inspector Andy Horton marine mystery crime novel, is set on the Island and yesterday my husband and I had a picnic lunch by Bembridge Lagoons where Andy meets up with Detective Superintendent Uckfield while investigating the murder of Owen Carlsson. The sun even came out for us at this beautiful spot while we ate a baguette lunch. ( Not so in the novel it's pouring with rain) In For The Kill , one of my thrillers is also set on the Isle of Wight, around Bembridge and Brading, and the protagonist, Alex Albury, also travels to the mainland to Portsmouth and Petersfield and even to Guernsey to track down the man who framed him for fraud and embezzlement and destroye...

My crime thriller novel  In For The Kill  is now available to download from my official web site absolutely FREE but for ONE WEEK only! This is part of an International promotion called Read An E Book Week  which runs from from 7-13 March 2010. In For The Kill , which is set on the south coast of England, will be featured in Read an E-Book Week, which was first recognised in 2004 and has been growing ever since along with the number of new e reading devices on the market. Read an E-Book Week is a not-for-profit week set aside to inform the public about reading electronically. Authors, publishers, vendors, the media and readers world-wide join in the promotional week to promote electronic reading. In For The Kill is a compelling, gripping tale of what happens to one man when his identity is stolen and his life descends into a living nightmare. Published in the UK it has also been translated into Indonesian, Polish and will soon be available in Turki...

Two of my crime thriller novels are to be published in Turkish in the New Year. Turkish Publisher Babiali Kultur Yayinciligi of Istanbul has acquired the rights to In Cold Daylight and In For The Kill  The deal was done through my literary agent in Turkey, Filiz Karaman of Nurchian Kesim Literary Agency who last year sold rights to one of my non fiction titles, Being Positive and Staying Positive , which was published in Turkish in March this year. In Cold Daylight and In For The Kill are to be published in February and March 2010. They are stand alone crime novels set in the Solent area and the Isle of Wight and have already been translated into Indonesian and Polish. I’m tickled pink about this. It will be really exciting to see them translated into Turkish and I hope they do well over there.

I visited Ventnor Library today, and for those of you who have no idea where Ventnor is it’s on the beautiful Isle of Wight (IOW), which is situated across the Solent from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, where Inspector Horton of my marine mystery crime novels does his best to catch villains and make the streets a safer place for law abiding citizens.  And no, there wasn't a body in the library, at least not a dead one but lots of very lively people making use of the facilities including a group of children who were listening intently to a story being told them. The Isle of Wight features in one of my crime thriller novels, In For The Kill and in my new Inspector Horton, Blood on the Sand , which will be published by Severn House on 26 February 2010. And just in case anyone from Southampton or Lymington is reading this blog then I had better quickly add that the IOW is also situated across the Solent from both Southampton and Lymington. Anyway, to get ...

Three of my crime and thriller novels feature the Isle of Wight on the South Coast of England. In For The Kill, the fast-paced thriller starring Alex Albury, is set there; The Suffocating Sea, an Inspector Andy Horton Marine Mystery ends there, and Blood Upon The Sand , another Horton crime novel, which I've just finished writing, is also set there. As I've just returned from a long hike on the Isle of Wight, I thought I'd post a couple of photos of where these novels are based. The top photograph is of Sandown Bay and the one below is of Whitecliff Bay. I'll take more next time I travel from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight and post them here. In In For The Kill , Alex's life descends into a living nightmare when his identity is stolen. Newly released from prison and living on a houseboat in Bembridge Harbour, Alex sets out on a quest to discover who framed him for fraud and embezzlement, vowing to destroy this man as he has destroyed Alex's life. (You can l...

My radio phone in interview with Alex Dyke on Wight FM on 16 April was lots of fun. It was great to talk to people via a phone-in and to answer questions they’d e mailed in regarding my novels and how I write. I'd love to do more radio phone-ins so hope I can link in with other radio stations on this soon. I was also delighted to find that the Captain sailing the Wightlink ferry from Portsmouth to Fishbourne, on my way over to the Isle of Wight for my radio interview, was Captain Paul Marshall who was the Captain on the St Clare at the time of my eight hour marathon book signing event in May 2008. He left the bridge on Wednesday - in the capable hands of his chief officer I hasten to add - to come and say 'hello' and chat while we waited to sail into Fishbourne. All in all a pleasant couple of days on the Isle of Wight, where my thriller, In For The Kill is set. The Suffocating Sea (an Inspector Andy Horton crime novel) also ends on the Isle of Wight.

On Saturday 20 June 2009, as part of the celebrations for Independent Booksellers Week , I will be signing copies of my latest Inspector Horton Marine Mystery crime novels, Deadly Waters and Dead Man's Wharf at my local independent bookshop, The Hayling Island Bookshop at 11am - all welcome. Independent Booksellers Week was first launched last year as a celebration of independent bookselling . Over 350 booksellers participated in a range of activities and events throughout the week. This year it runs from 15 th to 22 nd June and there will again be a number of exciting events and book signings in the UK in independent bookshops. Before that though I've got lots of speaking engagements and book signings lined up. You can see them here on my blog (scroll down and see them on the right hand side) or you can view them on my official web site. I've also just been invited on to Wight FM to talk about my crime novels. In For The Kill , a fast-paced, action-packed thriller ...

When I first started writing fiction I wrote from the female character's point of view but often I found myself wanting to switch main characters from the female to the male in the novel. It wasn't until I started writing crime novels and Tide of Death and introduced Inspector Andy Horton that I found my 'voice' as they call it in writing parlance. Once I started writing from the male point of view everything began to fall into place. I also prefer single person point of view which means that you follow the story through the eyes of Andy Horton in my marine mystery crime novels and through Adam Greene in my thriller, In Cold Daylight and Alex Albury in In For The Kill. When people ask me why I write from the male character's point of view I often joke that maybe it's because I am a closet man. But I don't really know. Perhaps it's because I have worked in male dominated environments for most of my life, or perhaps it's because of my personality. What...

You can now listen to me reading the prologue of In For The Kill either here (under the video bar) or on You Tube. This is an extract of an interview I did with Rob Richardson of Express FM in the summer of 2008. I hope you enjoy listening to it. You can also listen to it by visiting the Pauline Rowson Official Web Site. In For The Kill is a fast-paced thriller set primarily on the Isle of Wight. It is about one man's descent into a living hell after his identity was stolen and his quest to find the man who framed him. You'll find several of my interviews on You Tube, plus the previews of my business audio books, which have been posted there by my publisher's Polish distributor. I'll be adding more videos to You Tube over the coming weeks and months so, if you feel like it, please subscribe to these on You Tube and you'll receive an automatic notification when a new video is uploaded.

I am pleased to announce that through the sale of my thrillers, In Cold Daylight and In For The Kill in November and December I am able to donate £250.00 to The Fire fighters Charity in respect of the Steve Morris Appeal. Steve Morris, a fire fighter from Green Watch, Bolton, (UK) attended a fatal incident on 23 June 2008 in which three fire fighters received burns, Steve received 50% burns. A special web site has been set up to record Steve’s progress and the views, feelings and support of his family, friends and colleagues. http://www.fireservice.co.uk/steve/index.php My husband is a former fire fighter from Red Watch, Southsea and my thriller, IN COLD DAYLIGHT, is dedicated to fire fighters and was inspired by a true and tragic story, which I heard on the Watch one day about the high number of fire fighters contracting cancer. I took this idea and weaved it into a fast-paced thriller, which was shortlisted for the World Book Day Prize 2008. I would like to thank everyone who bough...

In Cold Day light was published in Poland today. Renamed Fire And Water ( Ogien i Woda) this is the second of my marine mystery crime novels to be published in Polish. It is always very exciting to see your work translated into another language and I was also thrilled to receive an e mail from Polish journalist, Anna Kutrzuba, who interviewed me for an article on the book's release. She's written a lovely piece and the article is laid out extremely well with photographs. You can click here to see it and read the Polish version of the interview. Ogien i Woda is published by Red Horse, Poland. Red Horse has already published In For the Kill (Uwiklany) and will be publishing Tide of Death in January. Click here to read the English version of my interview with Anna. Here's a brief preview below. "Pauline, you are a professional writer but at the beginning of your career you have been writing business and motivational books. Today you are highly acclaimed crime novels’ ...

The editor of my Polish publisher (Red Horse) was in touch with a request for my photograph to appear on the jacket cover of Tide of Death , which is being published in Poland in January 2009. They have also put it on their web site. They tell me sales are building in Poland for my crime novels which is great. In For The Kill was published earlier this year in Poland. Here is the jacket cover for In For The Kill. (left). In Cold Daylight is being published on 28 November. It has been renamed 'Fire and Water.' I'm looking forward to receiving my copies and will post the cover here, but you can see it on http://www.redhorse.pl/f54_Pauline_Rowson.html . I've also just discovered that a library nearby, in Petersfield, has a section of Polish novels, so I'd better see if I can get the Polish translations of my crime novels in there.

I'm happy. Why? Because my editor has just e mailed me to say how much she enjoyed my as yet unpublished new Marine Mystery DEAD MAN'S WHARF. This is the fourth Marine Mystery to feature my flawed and rugged detective DI Horton. This means there are no revisions- yippee! Why am I so pleased? Because if I have to revise one part of the book then it usually has an impact on the rest of the novel and you feel as though you are having to start writing it all over again. So, DEAD MAN'S WHARF has gone straight to copy-edit stage and will be published in the UK in hardback at the end of April 2009. And, in case you've lost track of the DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime Series, here's a re-cap: 1. Tide of Death (paperback) 2. Deadly Waters (hardback, trade paperback - that's the larger size paperback at £10.99, Large Print, Audio Book) Deadly Waters will be published as the smaller mass market paperback on 2 April 2009 at £6.99. Look out for more news and the new jacket...

I’ve just received from my publisher my copies of the Large Print version of Deadly Waters, which is now on sale. It looks really good and I hope it enables people who are visually impaired (sadly a growing number) to enjoy this marine mystery crime novel. Deadly Waters is already available as a talking book and in hardback and trade paperback and will shortly be published as a mass market paperback with a new jacket cover in April 2009. This and all my marine mystery crime and thriller novels are available as e books. The mass market version of Deadly Waters in the UK is the normal paperback size rather than the large paperback size and I know that it will please many of my readers who have already bought the mass market versions of Tide of Death , In Cold Daylight and In For The Kill . It will retail at £6.99 and is available for pre order from bookshops and on line. The Suffocating Sea , the third DI Andy Horton Marine Mystery, will be available in the large paperback version in...