La scoperta di una testa mozzata nel bunker di un campo da golf sconvolge la tranquilla cittadina inglese di Burnham-on-Sea. Chi ha potuto compiere un gesto tanto efferato? E che fine ha fatto il resto del corpo della donna così crudelmente mutilata? Quando poi viene rinvenuto un secondo cadavere, oltraggiato con lo stesso procedimento macabro, e i due casi sembrano ricollegarsi a un omicidio rimasto impunito negli anni Settanta, l’ispettore Nick Dixon e la sua squadra si troveranno coinvolti in una corsa attraverso e contro il tempo per impedire altre terribili decapitazioni.

Il caso più intimo per l’ispettore Dixon

Isobel Swan è una studentessa e ha diciassette anni quando viene ferocemente uccisa. Il suo assassino le ha reciso un anulare e le ha tagliato la gola. Per dare una svolta all’indagine che sembra arrivata a un punto morto, l’ispettore Nick Dixon si infiltra nel collegio della ragazza. Il caso si rivelerà ben più intimo del previsto: Isobel somiglia infatti in maniera inquietante alla fidanzata di Nick dei tempi del liceo, scomparsa misteriosamente e mai più ritrovata. Quando intuisce che potrebbe trattarsi dell’opera dello stesso killer, Dixon sa di dover affrontare i suoi demoni interiori e i fantasmi del suo passato…

Grida dal passato è il quarto romanzo dell’avvincente saga crime di Damien Boyd.

Ogni scalatore sa che in parete un imprevisto può essere fatale.

Nick Dixon, ispettore della polizia di Burnham-on-Sea, cittadina affacciata sulle celebri scogliere del Somerset, da ex arrampicatore conosce bene questi rischi. Ma quando viene chiamato a indagare su un incidente mortale avvenuto durante una scalata, non può credere che il cadavere ai piedi della montagna sia proprio quello del suo vecchio amico e compagno di cordata Jake Fayter.

Alcuni indizi sono evidenti e Dixon capisce in fretta che questo caso non può essere archiviato come una tragica fatalità. Nella sua indagine, il detective si troverà a fare i conti con una zona d’ombra nella vita di Jake, e a scoprire insospettabili e misteriose trame nascoste tra gli incredibili paesaggi della costa inglese.

Un giallo avvincente nel mondo delle corse dei cavalli

Un giovane aspirante fantino viene colpito a morte da un cavallo aggressivo in un maneggio nella campagna inglese. Pensando che si tratti di morte accidentale, il caso viene presto archiviato. Ma il fratello del ragazzo, tornato dal fronte, scatena un assedio armato e ottiene di riaprire le indagini per scoprire la verità. Ancora segnato dalle ripercussioni fisiche e psicologiche del suo ultimo caso, l’ispettore Nick Dixon viene trascinato in un mondo torbido fatto di scommesse truccate e traffici sospetti, dove le persone sono disposte a fare qualsiasi cosa pur di mantenere i loro segreti. Anche quando questo significa mettere a tacere un detective che continua a fare le domande sbagliate sulla persona sbagliata...

Isobel Swan, a sixth form student, has been murdered. First, her ring finger is severed, then her throat is cut.

With the investigation going nowhere fast, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent undercover as a trainee teacher into Isobel’s boarding school.

But to find the killer, he must first confront his inner demons and lay to rest the ghosts lurking in his own past. If he can…

As Dixon digs deeper, the stakes have never been higher and a murder has never felt so personal.

Swansong is the fourth novel in Damien Boyd’s highly addictive crime series.

Carnival season is off to an explosive start in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.

Detective Chief Inspector Nick Dixon arrives late for Bridgwater’s winter carnival. He’s come to see the squibbing, the traditional firework display that brings the town’s November festivities to a dramatic close. But when the squib of Avalon Carnival Club president Richard Webb is lit, it explodes, engulfing him in flames.

Dixon knows he’s just witnessed a killer making a very public statement. And he can’t help feeling it’s only the beginning.

After his suspicions are confirmed at the Burnham-on-Sea carnival forty-eight hours later, the race is on to find the killer before the next event in a nearby town.

Can Dixon stop the killings before any more lives are lost? And can he do it with police Professional Standards investigators breathing down his neck?

In this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series, a brutal murder looks like a gangland execution... until the next body is found.

Newly promoted DCI Nick Dixon is stuck behind a desk when the peace of the Somerset countryside is shattered by a spate of sheep killings. Dixon recognises a sinister pattern: the animals have all been slaughtered with a crossbow, the power increasing with each kill. It seems whoever is responsible is practising, but for what?

Then the owner of a yacht that capsized on a suspected drug run is found dead, pinned to a tree by four crossbow bolts. Convinced that the killing is a gangland execution, the organised crime unit take over the investigation.

Dixon is sure the motive lies elsewhere, but is forced to watch from the sidelines—until another body is found.

Leading a major investigation team at Avon and Somerset Police headquarters, and with internal politics threatening to thwart him at every turn, Dixon must find the murderer before he kills again. And again…

The highly anticipated sixth book in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.

The body of an elderly man is found in an abandoned World War Two pillbox beside the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. With no obvious motive and no credible suspect, DI Nick Dixon starts digging into the victim’s past.

The more he digs, the deeper Dixon is drawn into a case that takes him from the cave systems beneath rural Somerset to the heart of government, and threatens to expose a military cover-up at the highest level.

Blocked by a wall of silence, Dixon must unravel a dangerous conspiracy before the killer strikes again.

In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the wife of parliamentary candidate Tom Perry is brutally murdered in an apparent burglary gone wrong.

With the by-election campaign about to start in earnest, and the festive season in full swing, torrential rain brings with it flood warnings on the Somerset Levels.

Suspended on full pay and transferred to the cold case unit, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is languishing on the sidelines as the investigation into Elizabeth Perry’s murder unravels and the floodwaters rise.

Returning to duty, Dixon is convinced that the answer lies hidden in Tom Perry’s political life, but why was Elizabeth the target and not her husband? The more Dixon uncovers, the further he is from finding the truth…

Dead Level is the fifth novel in Damien Boyd’s addictive DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.

DI Nick Dixon is on the hunt for a vicious serial killer, following a trail of fingerprints and DNA across west Somerset.

When the body of a young woman is found on the building site of a nuclear power station, work grinds to a halt. The body bears all the hallmarks of yet another random murder at the hands of the escaped killer. Then Dixon finds a motive.

Fighting for his place on the Major Investigation Team, he soon uncovers a family’s desperate search for the truth, exposing a web of corruption and death that will shake the billion pound construction project to its very foundations. But who can be trusted when so much money is at stake?

Can Dixon find the killer under intense pressure from the top of government? And, can he do it before anyone else has to die?

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.

Revised edition: This edition of Head in the Sand includes editorial revisions.

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.

Revised edition: This edition of As the Crow Flies includes editorial revisions.