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The latest in the 1950s set Inspector Ryga mysteries, and two of my other crime novels are set in the month of May, so what better reason than to feature them on my website this month.
Wednesday 4 May and Art Marvik is on a quest to discover the truth behind his parents’ deaths in an underwater explosion in the Straits of Malacca in 1997. The stakes are high. Will he live to expose a shocking revelation and bring his parents killer to justice?
No one knows why Professor Dan Coulter, an oceanographer, and Dr Eeirka Marvik, a marine archaeologist, were diving in the Straits of Malacca when tragedy struck. For over twenty years Marvik has done his best to put aside thoughts of his parents’ deaths which left him at the age of seventeen in the brief care of a guardian before enlisting in the Royal Marines.
His career as a Commando and a Special Boat Services officer gave no room for sentimentality or reminiscences. He believed what he had been told, their deaths were an accident. Then a young marine archaeologist, Sarah Redburn, is murdered and Marvik’s boss, Chief Superintendent Crowder of the National Intelligence Marine Squad, claims her death is connected with Marvik’s parents. Marvik can’t see how that could be possible but when he discovers a notebook and computer disk in Sarah’s belongings with the name of his parents’ last research vessel written on it in his father’s hand, which is subsequently stolen from his safe deposit box, he has no option but to believe Crowder.
With the help of his former Marine colleague, Shaun Strathen, an intelligence officer and computer expert, Marvik embarks on a journey that could very well be his last. His quest for the truth takes him on a dangerous and deadly trail of abduction and murder. It soon becomes clear that the computer disk holds the key to a shocking secret that a ruthless killer is determined must never be revealed.
Monday 7 May 1951 and Inspector Ryga is sent to Cornwall to investigate the death of retired, eminent Harley Street skin specialist, Sir Bernard Crompton, who has been found dead on his brand new gentleman's motor cruiser, drifting off Mousehole, Cornwall.
The doctor on the scene has declared that Crompton died of natural causes, but a break in at his Harley Street premises, while he was away, and the fact Crompton has friends in high places has deemed that Ryga must investigate, much to the chagrin of the local Chief Constable.
In Sir Bernard's pocket are five pieces of rock. Then another body is found in a nearby cove. Like Sir Bernard he too is wearing a dinner suit and has five pieces of rock in his pocket. He’s been shot in the face.
Ryga’s enquiries quickly reveal that no one wants this killer found. And as more disturbing facts come to light, and he discovers a shocking and deeply disturbing secret Ryga comes to feel the same.
DEATH ON BOARD, is currently available to pre-order on Amazon. Published by Joffe books on 4 June 2024.
Sunday 9 May and Inspector Horton has blood on an abandoned boat and a missing boat owner in THE SOUTH BINNESS MURDERS.
DI Andy Horton arrives back in Southsea marina from France on his small yacht to find the police marine unit present having brought in an abandoned boat with what looks to be human blood on board. Is the missing boat owner dead or critically injured lying on a nearby shore? Is his body on one of the uninhabited small nature reserve islands in Langstone Harbour where the boat was found? Or has he absconded having killed someone on board?
Before Horton has confirmation that the blood is human, he’s called out the following day to investigate an unusual art robbery in a Portsmouth gallery.
Juggling both cases, which become more perplexing and disturbing with each step, Horton, aided by Sergeant Cantelli and DC Walters, is required to call upon all his instincts and his deep knowledge of humanity to help solve two cases where greed, guilt, snobbery and envy have reaped such disastrous consequences.
I hope you enjoy reading these twisty crime novels.
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Pauline Rowson lives on the South Coast of England and is the best selling author of many crime novels, published by Joffe Books. Her popular crime novels include the DI Andy Horton Solent Murder Mystery series, the Art Marvik mystery thrillers and the 1950s set Inspector Ryga mysteries. Subscribe to her newsletter for all the latest books news.
