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Yes, Amazon has lost all the customer reviews for my marine mystery crime novels: Tide of Death , Deadly Waters , (mass market paperback version), In Cold Daylight and In For The Kill . They have simply vanished from the Amazon web site while others stubbornly stick for some of my other books. Have I done something to upset Amazon I wonder? The customer service people at Amazon tell me: ‘We are currently experiencing some technical issues which are affecting customer reviews and ratings, some disappearing from the site. We can confirm that we are aware of this and our technical team is investigating the issue. As soon as the issue is resolved, your reviews will re appear on the website as they were before they disappeared.’ Now I don’t mind losing the bad reviews (and every writer gets them) but they’re not the ones that have vanished. I particularly wanted to lose the review that says Deadly Waters is utter tripe! But sod’s law means that one is sticking along with the other r...

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...