[REVIEW] Kickback

Series: DI Nick Dixon #3
Author: Damien Boyd
Genre: adult, mystery, thriller, crime fiction, suspense, contemporary
Published: January 20, 2015 (first published February 26, 2014)
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
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A trainee jockey has been kicked to death by an aggressive stallion at the local stables. Deemed an accidental death, the case is closed. But when the jockey’s brother returns from active service, he sparks an armed siege, demanding the investigation be re-opened and the truth uncovered. 

Still recovering from the physical and mental scars of his last case, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is dragged deep into a murky world of betting scams and murder, where people will do anything to keep their secrets. Even if that means silencing a DI who keeps asking the wrong questions about the wrong dead jockey... 

Kickback is the third novel in the highly acclaimed DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.

[REVIEW] Head in the Sand

Series: DI Nick Dixon #2
Author: Damien Boyd
Genre: adult, mystery, thriller, crime fiction, suspense, contemporary, 
Published: January 20, 2015 (first published October 7, 2013)
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
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The discovery of a severed head in a golf course bunker triggers a frantic race to find a serial killer that brings the town of Burnham-on-Sea to a standstill. 

A connection is made with a series of unsolved murders harking back to the 1970s, and Detective Inspector Nick Dixon finds himself caught in a race against time that takes him the length and breadth of the country. 

The brutal killing of an elderly man raises the stakes and, as he closes in, Dixon begins to question whether he is chasing one serial killer or two. 

Head in the Sand is the second novel in the highly acclaimed DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.

[REVIEW] As the Crow Flies

Series: DI Nick Dixon #1
Author: Damien Boyd
Genre: adult, mystery, crime fiction, thriller, suspense, contemporary
Published: January 20, 2015 (first published April 19, 2013)
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Rock climbers can’t afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon’s former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell. 

The more Dixon learns about Jake’s life, the more he realises that Jake hadn’t been quite the man he remembered...and a lot of people could have wanted him dead. Once Dixon gets too close to the truth, those people will emerge from the shadows and kill to protect their secrets. 

As the body count rises, Dixon bends the rules to breaking point to lure out a killer and unravel a conspiracy of silence that will rock the sleepy town of Burnham-on-Sea to its core. 

As the Crow Flies is the electrifying first novel in the DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.