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I’m often asked this question. Who would play Inspector Andy Horton if there was a film or television series made of my Marine Mysteries. It’s quite a tricky question to answer in a way because my view of the actor to play Andy Horton might not fit with yours. Andy Horton has had a tough upbringing. Illegitimate and brought up on the streets of Portsmouth, his mother abandoned him as a child. He has no idea where she is or even if she is alive. Horton has been raised in children’s homes and with a succession of foster parents which makes him a loner, but with a desperate desire to belong. He finds this sense of belonging through joining the police service. He’s fearless where others are concerned, strong, an action man rather than a thinker with a strong sense of justice. He’s fairly tall, muscular and fit with short cropped fair hair. He rides a Harley and lives on boat. The rest I leave to you. He first appears in Tide of Death, then Deadly Waters , The Suffocating Sea and soon, Dea...

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...