Friday the thirteenth begins badly for DI Andy Horton when he wakes to find his Harley has been vandalized and his boss, DCI Lorraine Bliss, has returned early from her secondment to HQ. Then, convicted murderer, Luke Felton, released on licence, is reported missing and a decomposed corpse is washed up in Portsmouth harbour. But before Horton can get a grip on either case, he's called to a house where a woman he'd only met the day before has been brutally murdered. Is missing Luke Felton the prime suspect, or is it his body in the mud of the harbour? Horton is under pressure to get results, but things are about to get much worse for the beleaguered detective -

Author Biography

Pauline Rowson is the author of the contemporary crime novels featuring the flawed and rugged DI Andy Horton whose patch is Portsmouth CID. Her crime novels have been hailed as the 'Best of British Crime Fiction,' 'exemplary procedurals,' 'an entertaining read in an engaging series,' both in the UK and USA. She is also the author of two fast-paced, thrillers one of which is the award winning In Cold Daylight which was voted by the public as one of the top ten best reads for World Book Day. Her Marine Mysteries, Tide of Death, Deadly Waters, The Suffocating Sea , Dead Man's Wharf Blood on the Sand , Footsteps on the Shore, A Killing Coast and Death Lies Beneath, plus her thrillers In Cold Daylight, and In for the Kill are based around the Solent, but her books have an international readership and have been translated into several languages.