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Two new book reviews have come from Australia, for  Dead Man's Wharf the fourth in the DI Andy Horton series of crime novels. "Pauline Rowson has the ability to make you want to keep reading, to find out the answers to the growing pile of questions. Those who enjoy British crime fiction will enjoy this series. The Portsmouth setting gives it a unique flavour." " Pauline Rowson is able to develop a complex plot from seemingly simple roots. The plot keeps branching, element upon element being added, and Rowson does a good job of keeping tabs on them all." http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-dead-mans-wharf-pauline-rowson.html Dead Man's Wharf by Pauline Rowson Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where an elderly resident, suffering from dementia, claims she's been attacked by an intruder. Horton is ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings until he discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead woman's...

This month sees the publication as an unabridged audio book of the fifth in the marine mystery series of police procedural crime novels featuring the flawed and rugged DI Andy Horton Blood on the Sand. Read by the experienced and accomplished actor, Gordon Griffin, Blood on the Sand is published by Isis Publishing and is available in cassette and CD format and as a download. Blood on the Sand is published in the UK and the USA by Severn House and has received rave reviews in the States. Reviewer Booklist says: 'This is another solid entry in a consistently well written series. Like Ed McBain, Rowson works many subtle variations on the procedural formula (including very interesting relationships between Andy and a couple of his superiors). A definite winner in the crowded field of British procedurals.' Set in the Solent area and the Isle of Wight, Blood on the Sand is already published in hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback. It will also be available i...

Opinion is free, and part of being a published author is that you have to accept that some people will love your books, others will loathe them.  What one critic raves over another will slate.  Most authors dread reviews.  For nine months (and sometimes longer for some authors) you have poured your heart and soul into that creation.  You have invested a great deal of time and emotion in creating it and, as with a child, you want it to be well received in the world. When it isn't it can hurt. But history is littered with scathing reviews of  books, plays and films which have gone on to become best sellers. As a published author you need to learn to take the rough with the smooth, which is not always easy, but in order to carry on writing that is all you can do. It is about keeping your confidence up while writing the next novel. I have been fortunate to have some fantastic reviews for my DI Andy Horton crime novels and my  thriller novels , an...

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...