Pauline Rowson

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2006
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An Art Marvik Mystery

1 - Silent Running (Jul-2015)
2 - Dangerous Cargo (Sep-2016)
3 - Lost Voyage (Nov-2017)
4 - Dead Sea (Mar-2021)

DI Andy Horton

1 - Tide of Death // The Portsmouth Murders (Feb-2006)
2 - Deadly Waters // The Langstone Harbour Murders (Dec-2007)
3 - The Suffocating Sea // The Horsea Marina Murders (Jul-2008)
4 - Dead Man's Wharf // The Royal Hotel Murders (Jul-2009)
5 - Blood on the Sand // The Isle of Wight Murders (May-2010)
6 - Footsteps on the Shore // The Portchester Castle Murders (May-2011)
7 - A Killing Coast // The Chale Bay Murders (May-2012)
8 - Death Lies Beneath // The Farlington Marsh Murders (Nov-2012)
9 - Undercurrent // The Oyster Quays Murders (May-2013)
10 - Death Surge // The Cowes Week Murders (Jan-2014)
11 - Shroud of Evil // The Boathouse Murders (Aug-2014)
12 - Fatal Catch // The Thorney Island Murders (Jan-2016)
13 - Lethal Waves // The Guernsey Ferry Murders (Jun-2017)
14 - Dead Passage (Oct-2018)
15 - A Deadly Wake // The Luccombe Bay Murders (Jun-2020)
16 - The South Binness Murders (Dec-2022)

Inspector Alun Ryga

1 - Death in the Cove (Sep-2019)
2 - Death in the Harbour (Nov-2020)
3 - Death In The Nets (Oct-2021)
4 - Death in the Dunes (Jun-2023)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Tide of Death // The Portsmouth Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 1

    It is Horton’s second day back in Portsmouth CID following an eight month suspension on a charge of gross misconduct. Determined to prove his innocence of the charges that have wrecked his career and his marriage, Horton finds his personal investig...

  • Deadly Waters // The Langstone Harbour Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 2

    A gripping marine mystery from the author of Tide of Death - When a woman is found murdered in Langstone Harbour, DI Andy Horton is assigned to the case but not for long if Superintendent Uckfield has his way. Horton is given just a week to find the ...

  • The Suffocating Sea // The Horsea Marina Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 3

    An action-packed marine mystery featuring Andy Horton - Andy Horton is called to investigate a suspicious fire on board a boat, but when he arrives he senses instinctively that this investigation will be like no other, and hes right. Soon he is force...

  • Dead Man's Wharf // The Royal Hotel Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 4

    The new Detective Inspector Horton mystery - Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where a resident claims she’s been attacked by an intruder. Ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings, Horton then discovers that her room-mate has di...

  • In Cold Daylight

    Fire fighter Jack Bartholomew dies whilst trying to put out a fire in a derelict building. Was it an accident or arson? Marine artist Adam Greene doesn't know, only that he has lost his closest friend. He attends the funeral ready to mourn his friend...

  • In For The Kill

    Alex Albury has it all: a successful public relations business, a luxurious house, a beautiful wife and two sons. Then one September morning the police burst into his home and arrest him. Now, three and a half years later, newly released from Camp Hi...

  • Blood on the Sand // The Isle of Wight Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 5

    Inspector Andy Horton’s holiday peace is shattered when, walking out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold, grey January morning, he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand, leaning over a corps...

  • Footsteps on the Shore // The Portchester Castle Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 6

    Friday the thirteenth starts badly for DI Andy Horton. Convicted Murderer, Luke Felton, has gone missing, at the same time a decomposed corpse is washed up in Portsmouth harbour. But before Horton can get to grips with either case, he is called to th...

  • A Killing Coast // The Chale Bay Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 7

    Detective Inspector Horton returns and is feeling the heat . . . - When a body is found floating in the sea off Portsmouth harbour, Detective Inspector Horton judges it to be an accidental death, but soon discovers he's got it very wrong. Under press...



  • Death Lies Beneath // The Farlington Marsh Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 8

    When ex-con Daryl Woodley is found dead on the marshes bordering Langstone Harbour, the Intelligence Directorate believe his murder is linked to big-time crook Marty Stapleton, currently serving time in prison. Detective Inspector Horton is not so su...

  • Undercurrent // The Oyster Quays Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 9

    Suicide, or murder? When Detective Inspector Horton’s bosses block his investigation, he starts to suspect there’s been a cover-up at the highest level . . . When naval historian Dr Douglas Spalding is found dead in Portsmouth’s Historic Doc...

  • Death Surge // The Cowes Week Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 10

    A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to say that his nephew, Johnnie Oslow, is missing cuts short Detective Inspector Horton’s sailing trip to France. Summoned back to the Isle of Wight, Horton learns that Johnnie has not shown up for ...

  • Shroud of Evil // The Boathouse Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 11

    Detective Inspector Horton of Portsmouth CID is assigned the case of a missing person: Jasper Kenton, a private investigator. Eunice Swallows, Kenton’s partner, seems reluctant to help them, and Horton concludes that she is probably relieved to be ...

  • Silent Running

    An Art Marvik Mystery - 1

    Introducing Art Marvik, former marine commando. When a former girlfriend shows up at his remote cottage with a disturbing story about the murder of a young woman fifteen years ago, and her growing belief that the man convicted for it is innocent, ...

  • Fatal Catch // The Thorney Island Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 12

    Trust no one. Believe nothing... DI Andy Horton is called out to examine a gruesome catch by two fishermen: a human hand. Is it that of missing violent criminal, Alfie Wright -- or is he the killer? And where is the rest of the corpse? Soon Hor...

  • Dangerous Cargo

    An Art Marvik Mystery - 2

    In his second mission for the National Intelligence Marine Squad, former marine commando Art Marvik finds himself on the trail of a 50-year-old mystery. For his second mission, Marvik is detailed to attend the funeral of Bradley Pulford, whose bo...

  • Lethal Waves // The Guernsey Ferry Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 13

    Two apparently unrelated deaths draw DI Andy Horton into the dangerous current of a complex and disturbing case. DI Andy Horton’s meal with his old friend, Inspector John Guilbert of the States of Guernsey Police, is cut short when a smartly dr...

  • Lost Voyage

    An Art Marvik Mystery - 3

    Art Marvik, former Royal Marine Commando, is surprised by a late-night summons to meet Helen Shannon, a woman he helped on his first mission. Art Marvik, former Royal Marine Commando, is surprised to receive an unexpected summons to meet Helen Sha...

  • Dead Passage

    DI Andy Horton - 14

    Inspector Andy Horton receives a mysterious telephone call from Adele Goldsby, the daughter of a dead Portsmouth politician, with an urgent request to meet him on the Isle of Wight ferry because she has something to reveal about her father's death tw...



  • Death in the Cove

    Inspector Alun Ryga - 1

    England 1950, a country still struggling to come to terms with peace in the grip of austerity and rationing. When the body of a man dressed in a pinstriped suit is discovered by war photographer, Eva Paisley, in a secluded bay on Portland Island, Dor...

  • A Deadly Wake // The Luccombe Bay Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 15

    Inspector Andy Horton returns to his desk in Portsmouth CID after a tedious computer course in London to find there has been a series of highway robberies in his absence and an arson attack at the sailing club where the Chief Constable keeps his boat...

  • Death in the Harbour

    Inspector Alun Ryga - 2

  • Dead Sea

    An Art Marvik Mystery - 4

  • Death In The Nets

    Inspector Alun Ryga - 3

  • The South Binness Murders

    DI Andy Horton - 16

    An abandoned motor cruiser is found stranded on South Binness Island in Langstone harbour.There's a large pool of blood on the deck and heavy crimson spatter up the side of the storage lockers. But no sign of a body on board.Detective Inspector Andy ...

  • Death in the Dunes

    Inspector Alun Ryga - 4

    DISCOVER A SERIES OF CAPTIVATING HISTORICAL MYSTERIES FILLED WITH TWISTS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAULINE ROWSON.Meet Inspector Alun Ryga of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad. Having survived WW2 in a prisoner of war camp, he's vowed to get justice for tho...

  • The HAYLING ISLAND MURDERS a gripping crime thriller full of twists

    A BRAND-NEW CRIME THRILLER SET ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND.A box of treasure. A burned body and an old flame.Detective Inspector Andy Horton arrives at Portsmouth CID to find a rusty, old metal box on his desk. It was found in the mud at Sinah Lake...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pauline Rowson has published 27 books.

Pauline Rowson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The HAYLING ISLAND MURDERS a gripping crime thriller full of twists, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Pauline Rowson, Tide of Death // The Portsmouth Murders, was published in February 2006.

Yes. Pauline Rowson has 3 series.
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