DI Nick Dixon Series by Damien Boyd, Napoleon Ryan

4.33 · 251 ratings
  • As The Crow Flies (DI Nick Dixon #1)
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    As The Crow Flies (DI Nick Dixon #1)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 2013

    Rock climbing is now a blood sport.Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, is dead. Killed in a fall whilst practising a new route on High Rock, Cheddar Gorge. Convinced that Jake would not have made such a simple mistake, Nick Dixon starts digging and uncovers a web of intrigue and criminal activity that will rock the sleepy seaside town of Burnham-on-Sea to its core... more

  • Head in the Sand (DI Nick Dixon #2)
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    Head in the Sand (DI Nick Dixon #2)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2013

    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... more

  • Kickback (DI Nick Dixon #3)
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    Kickback (DI Nick Dixon #3)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2014

    Trainee jockey, Noel Woodman, has been kicked to death by an aggressive stallion at a horse racing stables near Bridgwater. Everyone is convinced it was an accident, except his brother, Jon, home on leave from Afghanistan.Still recovering from the physical and mental scars of his last case, DI Nick Dixon is drawn into the investigation at the point of a gun and soon begins peeling away the layers of secrets and lies... more

  • Swansong (DI Nick Dixon #4)
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    Swansong (DI Nick Dixon #4)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2015

    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.

  • Dead Level (DI Nick Dixon #5)
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    Dead Level (DI Nick Dixon #5)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2016

    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... more

  • Death Sentence (DI Nick Dixon #6)
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    Death Sentence (DI Nick Dixon #6)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2016

    The highly anticipated new 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... more

  • Heads or Tails (DI Nick Dixon #7)
    #7

    Heads or Tails (DI Nick Dixon #7)

    Damien Boyd, Napoleon Ryan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2017

    The highly anticipated seventh novel in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series. A man has been mutilated and left to drown on the incoming tide, handcuffed in his van. With the murder bearing a striking resemblance to a string of sadistic killings carried out with surgical precision in 1990s gangland Manchester, it can mean only one thing: the killer is back.Transferred to the Major Investigation Team, DI Nick Dixon is assigned a new partner and sent to Manchester... more

  • Dead Lock (DI Nick Dixon #8)
    #8

    Dead Lock (DI Nick Dixon #8)

    Damien Boyd, Napoleon Ryan

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2018

    Early on a cold Somerset morning, ten year old Alesha Daniels is reported missing by her father, a violent alcoholic. Her mother, a known drug addict, is found unconscious, but it’s her mother’s boyfriend the police are keen to trace.As the hunt for Alesha gathers pace, a second local girl is taken, plunging another family into the depths of despair... more

  • Beyond the Point (DI Nick Dixon #9)
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    Beyond the Point (DI Nick Dixon #9)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2019

    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... more

  • Dying Inside (DI Nick Dixon #11)
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    Dying Inside (DI Nick Dixon #11)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2021

    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... more

  • Carnival Blues (DI Nick Dixon #12)
    #12

    Carnival Blues (DI Nick Dixon #12)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2022

    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... more

  • From The Ashes (DI Nick Dixon #14)
    #14

    From The Ashes (DI Nick Dixon #14)

    Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2024

    Long lives are being cut short in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.A retired teacher is found dead in her Somerset home on a cold January night. At first glance, it is a routine unexplained death and a simple referral to the coroner, until a neighbour reports an unscheduled visit from an occupational therapist an hour before the body was discovered... more

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