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The editors of Crimespree Magazine are seeking nominations for this year’s Crimespree Awards. Crimespree Magazine is based in America but the Internet obviously makes it International. It covers mystery crime novels and what's happening in the mystery community.  Now Crimespree have invited people to choose as many as five mystery or crime novels in each of three categories: • Favorite Book of the Year • Favorite First Book of the Year • Best Book in an Ongoing Series All novels must have been published in 2009. So I thought as my marine mystery Inspector Horton crime novels are also published in the USA if anyone would like to nominate one I'd be chuffed to pieces. However, as they state that novels must be published in 2009  Dead Man's Wharf  seems to fit the bill, and it was given a star rated review by the American reviewer, Kirkus and hailed as 'an'exemplary police procedural.' If you'd like to vote for Dead Man's Wharf or any of yo...

My latest crime novel Dead Man’s Wharf was published in America on 1 July 2009 in hardcover. I'm delighted that it immediately received an excellent review from Kirkus Book Reviews. Kirkus Reviews is published 24 times annually, with nearly 5,000 book reviews each year. It is one of the most prestigious names in the publishing industry and is read by publishers, libraries, agents, film and television studio producers, as well as commercial booksellers. I've put the link to their web site here but what I didn't realise is that it's a subscription only web site, so you won't be able to read the review. That might not be a bad thing as it does rather give the plot away. Here, however, is what they say about Dead Man's Wharf: ‘Rowson turns out an exemplary procedural with the requisite plot twists, double-crosses and all loose ends tied up neatly in a sailor’s knot.’ Dead Man’s Wharf was published in hardcover in the UK in April 2009. It is the fourth in the mar...

I've just heard from my publisher that DEAD MAN'S WHARF, the fourth and latest in the marine mystery crime series featuring my rugged and flawed detective, Inspector Andy Horton, has been given a *starred* review by the American review magazine, Kirkus. I'll put a link to the Kirkus web site when the review goes live, which will be (I am told) in a couple of weeks time. But be warned, their synopsis does rather give away a lot of the plot, so I won't reprint it here because I don't want to spoil it for those of you who want to read the novel. This, however, is their summing up of DEAD MAN'S WHARF. 'Rowson turns out an exemplary procedural with the requisite plot twists, double-crosses and all loose ends tied up neatly in a sailor’s knot.' Kirkus (USA) It's important for new authors to get positive reviews because it takes time in a crowded and competitive marketplace for readers to discover your work. These positive reviews help to raise the author...