She awoke with intense pain, in her head, her back. Dense smoke filled the air and flames leapt along the wall across from where she lay. Ghostly figures moved around her. Were they shouting? She only heard whispers above the ringing in her ears. Warm blood ran down her face. It was hard to breath. The stench of melted plastic was intolerable.

The last thing she remembered was sitting across from that dreadful young executive. She could not comprehend that despite her seventy years of…

A Killing Coast, the seventh in the DI Andy Horton series has been published in paperback and as an unabridged audio book. Already available in hardcover and as an e book, published by Severn House, it has been released as an unabridged audio book by Isis publishing, read by Gordon Griffin who also reads the others in the DI Horton series. Published in the UK, Commonwealth and America,…

Over 130 people gathered at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on a blustery day, punctuated by the occasional shower, on Saturday 2 November to listen to two panels of crime authors, crime experts and police debate crime fiction and crime fact. It was great to see so many people there and to welcome back those who had attended the previous CSI Portsmouth events.…

I have released a PI novel for Kindle, A Small Sacrifice. From the description on Amazon:

Detective Nick Forte is not impressed when Shirley Mitchell asks him to clear her son’s name for a murder everyone is sure he committed. Persuaded to at least look around, Forte soon encounters a dead body, as well as the distinct possibility the next murder he’s involved with will be his own. Clearing Doug Mitchell’s name quickly becomes far less important…

Gordon Griffin is the narrator of the unabridged audio books in the DI Andy Horton series . Gordon is the voice of DI Andy Horton and the other characters in the Horton novels and is currently recording Footsteps on the Shore. This will be followed by A Killing…

A whole host of titles in the popular DI Andy Horton crime series by Pauline Rowson are to be released over the next eight months.Responding to demand Severn House Publishers is to publish the new DI Andy Horton crime novel, Undercurrent, the ninth in the series, in the UK in January 2013 and in the USA in May 2013. They have also…

A Killing Coast, the seventh in the DI Horton series is now available as an ebook pubished by Severn House. 

Set on the South Coast of England, in the Solent area, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight,…

Book Title:   A DENIABLE DEATH

Author:  Gerald Seymour    

ISBN:  9781444705850

Location:  Afghanistan, Iran

Series:  Badger Baxter

Publisher:  Hodder & Stoughton

Year of Publication:  2011



C.R.O.P.: Covert Rural Observation Posts are places where men like Danny 'Badger' Baxter hide for endless, motionless hours, secretly recording criminal or terrorist activity.



But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Republicans in muddy…

Book Title:   A DARK AND BROKEN HEART

Author:  R.J. Ellory

ISBN:   9781409124146

Location:   USA

Publisher:   Orion

Year of Publication:   2012



It should have all been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred grand from the thieves who stole it in the first place and who could they turn to for help?



Madigan is charming, resourceful, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his neck in debt to Sandià - the drug king…

May is going to be a busy month not only will I be writing the ninth in the DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime series but I'll also be giving a couple of talks..



May also sees the publication in hardcover in the USA of the seventh in the DI Andy Horton series  A Killing Coast  which was published in the UK in January…

Book Title:   A DISSECTION OF MURDER

Author:  Felicity Young

ISBN:  9780732293680

Location:   London

Series:   Dody McCleland

Publisher:   Harper Collins

Year of Publication:   2012



A compelling new series about Dr Dody McCleland, the first female autopsy surgeon.



A woman. A doctor. A beastly science.



At the turn of the twentieth century, London's political climate is in turmoil, as women fight for the right to vote. Dody McCleland has her…

Book Title:   A NOBLE KILLING

Author:  Barbara Nadel

ISBN:   9780755371617

Series:   Cetin Ikmen

Publisher:   Headline

Year of Publication:   2011



Istanbul:  the sight that greets Inspector Cetin Ikmen is horrific.  The girl was burnt alive in her own bedroom.  Was it suicide or murder?  When her father shows no emotion at the death of his seventeen-year-old daughter, Ikmen starts to dig deeper.



Alongside his troubled partner, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman,…

Jordan Russell had the perfect life until the brutal monster from her childhood resurfaced, opening up scars she thought were healed.  With the hope of finally finding closure Jordan leaves her cheating husband, and her career in the FBI, and returns to where her nightmare began.  But what awaits her in Thorny Creek will push her to the very edge of sanity and bring her…

Last week I finished checking the proofs for A Killing Coast, the seventh in the DI Andy Horton crime series due for publication in hardcover in the UK on 26 January 2012 and in the USA in May 2012.



I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product and receiving my author copies. It's always a thrill to see the…

This seems to be not isolated to my experience, since there are scores of threads online about how facebook is mismanaging its ad system. Once you open an ad account, it requires you to enter a billing method. However, I cannot close my ad account or remove that billing method. I've tried a million ways. I can't.

Seems scammy.

They also billed one of my advertising campaigns to my credit card when they should've done it to a coupon they e-mailed me. I sent no…

Rather than rent out a community center or library for a "real-world" launch party, I'm hosting one virtually via my e-mail newsletter (shout out to CrimeSpace's Clay Morgan for the inspiration, as he's a big proponent of e-mail newsletters).

But unlike a regular old "buy this buy this buy this" event, this launch party is full of exclusive fun only for newsletter subscribers. I'm including plenty of prizes, an online video game based on the novel, writing I've never shared…

It's true, I'm happy to say. The good folks of Trestle Press took me on this morning. I'm excited to work with a publisher so committed to reaching readers on different platforms.

It's also nice, once again, to be in a house with fellow C'Spacer B.R. Stateham.

Let the mayhem begin!

Today I am spotlighting Gary Ponzo. His latest novel is called A Touch of Deceit, and it's doing well in the Kindle market. Really well. One of the reasons for this is that I believe his book offers something a little different than many others out there, and the fact that he incorporates his Sicilian background into the story also helps.



The novel opens well with the line, "There was a time when Nick Bracco would walk down Gold Street late at night and young vandals would…