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A missing comrade.

A cryptic note.

A conspiracy that will test Art Marvik to the limit.

Meet Art Marvik. A battle-hardened commando with the scars to prove it. He’s used to high-stakes operations. But nothing has prepared him for what awaits in the coastal town of Ballycotton, Ireland . . .

Marvik receives a disturbing call from the Garda. His friend and former comrade, Shaun Strathen, is missing. His yacht’s been found drifting in Ballyandreen Bay. But there’s no sign of Strathen.

A cryptic note is discovered onboard: Art, sorry it’s come to this. Look after things for me. Per Mare, Per Terram.

Marvik wastes no time. He heads straight for Ireland, determined to find his friend. His search leads him to a cottage by the sea. A decomposing body is discovered inside.
It’s not Strathen.

If the body isn’t his comrade’s, then who is it? And where the hell is Strathen?

As Marvik digs deeper, the truth begins to unravel, but so do the dangers.

Can Marvik survive this lethal storm long enough to expose a network of criminal masterminds, and save his friend?

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Adventure, mystery and heroes have always fascinated and thrilled Pauline, that and her love of the sea has led her to create her exciting and gripping range of crime novels.

Born and raised in the coastal city of Portsmouth in the UK, Pauline Rowson draws her inspiration for her crime novels from the area. When she isn’t writing (which isn’t often) she can be found walking the coastal paths on the Isle of Wight and around Langstone and
Chichester Harbours looking for a good place to put a body!

Pauline is the author of twenty-four crime novels — sixteen featuring the rugged and flawed Portsmouth detective, Inspector Andy Horton; four in the mystery thriller series featuring Art Marvik, the troubled former Royal Marine Commando now an undercover investigator for the UK’s National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS); two standalone thrillers, the award-winning In Cold Daylight and In For the Kill, and the 1950 set mystery series featuring Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Alun Ryga, who makes his debut in Death in the Cove with his second
investigation Death in the Harbour.

Her crime novels have been highly acclaimed in the UK, USA and Commonwealth and they have been translated into several languages. Multi-layered, fast-paced, and compelling, they are full of twists and turns and are played out against the dramatic and powerfully evocative British marine landscape of the south coast of England.
Pauline is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association and the Society of Authors.

Before becoming a full-time writer, she was a renowned marketing and training guru, with a collection of ‘how to’ business books and a successful marketing, media and training career behind her.

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My thoughts: Art Marvik finds himself in the middle of a complete nightmare situation after his friend Shaun goes missing in Ireland. His boat is at anchor in the bay, a strange thing to do if he really committed suicide. The clues lead Marvik to an old cottage and a dead body – which thankfully isn’t his friend.

But it all seems to be part of something much larger – a conspiracy that leads to murder, where Marvik can’t be sure who to trust, where a friend may not be quite who they seem to be.

A tangled web, full of dead ends, lies, and a knotty mess that Marvik must unravel before he ends up dead too.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

Is Blood really Thicker than Water?

Something is terribly wrong at Angiras, a family-owned medical start-up. Neddy Emory and her brother Charles are about launch a revolutionary life-saving therapeutic device. But they’ve hit a major snag. Critical research is unraveling and, to their shock and horror, one-by-one, team members are falling mysteriously ill.

Neddy and Charles race to move the project forward, while struggling to keep their employees safe. Failure is not an option. Without the device, their younger brother Daniel will die. But Neddy begins to suspect the company’s innovative research methods are being tampered with. When probed, Charles gaslights her. He refuses to slow down, claiming he is
Daniel’s only hope.

Torn between loyalty to her family and the welfare of the staff, Neddy desperately searches for the truth. Then the unspeakable happens. A fatality. Charles appears to finally be persuaded. But his next move shocks her, and she realizes: the danger is only beginning. And
she is on her own.

For fans of THE MAIDENS who will appreciate Neddy’s determination and perseverance as she fights to keep her family together despite fractured relationships, greed, and treachery.

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Judy Kroll worked for over twenty years in large and small corporations, including four years in the pharmaceutical industry, as a human resources professional and later as a career counselor. She provided job search assistance to hundreds of individuals, including physicians,
pharmacists, medical device developers, chemists, and other scientists impacted by mergers and downsizings. She is a practicing yogi (twenty-three years.)

Both corporate experiences as well as many years ‘on the mat’ inspired her book, Breakthrough. Specifically, in both of these
very disparate worlds, she observed the same phenomenon: the devastation wrought when a much-respected boss or mentor turns out to be unethical, and one must find a new path forward, seemingly alone.

She lives in northern New Jersey, and in addition to writing, gardening, and practicing yoga, Judy co-chairs a not-for-profit conservation organization.

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My thoughts: Neddy and her older brother Charles are developing a revolutionary medical device that might help younger brother Daniel, as well as millions of others, their company is due to complete a merger with another firm and raise some more capital, but then Neddy realises something very wrong is going on at the company.

As she investigates the strange things that have happened to their engineers, she risks destroying everything they’ve built, but is that a risk worth taking?

Clever, intriguing and compelling, this might be the author’s first book but I couldn’t tell, it’s such a well plotted and enjoyable read.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

They changed her life forever. Did they really think they could get away with it?

Evie Perry was a high-class escort whose way of life was abruptly and cruelly shattered by two drunken men.

Stella Kendrick’s husband committed suicide and left her with a legal battle and a debt of £6m, but he leaves her a message with the names of three men on it.

Daniella Maddox is a world-class barrister, assigned to an indefensible case for a corrupt client, but one she must win to save her own life. Unbeknownst to them, fate has woven their lives into a twisted web.

Detective Sergeant Alan Armitage is mystified when he attends the scene of a triple murder, but he is very quickly joined in his hunt for the killer by Detective Sergeant Steve Denton from The Met, and Detective Sergeant Bob Williams from North Yorkshire CID. Along with Detective Constable Rachael Jones, they have to uncover who the murderer is and why they are killing people across the country. Their task is made even more difficult because a criminal known to most simply as The Broker gets closer to banking millions every time his team commits another murder.

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Writing is his hobby, which he fits in between full-time work, family, and completing unusual fundraising challenges. For more information, visit geoffmajor.info.
He lives in Yorkshire, with his wife and their dog.

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My thoughts: Evie wants revenge on the men who ruined her face and ended her career as an escort, she’s running out of money and hopes the threat of a tell-all book will encourage her targets to cough up.

Unbeknownst to her however, someone else is taking out the men who wronged her, and a few of their friends. The police are struggling to join the dots as the murders at first appear random and the victims live all over the country, meaning it takes a while before the various forces link up.

Niall Fitzgerald and his wife Yvonne are devastated at the murders of their friends, and Niall thinks it’s a woman he once knew as SILK, but as the police dig, it seems there’s someone else involved.

The mysterious Broker makes a lot of money ordering his minions to do terrible things, he doesn’t even really care why and stands to make even more money with this latest commission.

As the bodies pile up and the police think they’re onto something, can they identify the person behind it all before it’s too late?

Clever, complex and gripping, this is one of those thrillers where you think you know what’s going on…but then you don’t! Just like the police, you want to solve it before anyone else dies, but you might not be able to guess the reasons behind it all. Fiendish stuff. 

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.