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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2015
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

DI Nick Dixon

1 - As the Crow Flies (Jan-2015)
2 - Head in the Sand (Jan-2015)
3 - Kickback (Jan-2015)
4 - Swansong (Apr-2015)
5 - Dead Level (Mar-2016)
6 - Death Sentence (Oct-2016)
7 - Heads or Tails (Sep-2017)
8 - Dead Lock (Jun-2018)
9 - Beyond the Point (May-2019)
10 - Down Among the Dead (May-2020)
11 - Dying Inside (Jun-2021)
12 - Carnival Blues (Jun-2022)
13 - Death Message (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • 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 somethi...



  • 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 D...



  • 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 investigati...



  • 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 boar...



  • 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 r...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 h...



  • 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 bod...






  • Somerset’s bloody past meets a dangerous present in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.

    When a badly decomposed body is discovered during an archaeological dig on the Sedgemoor battlefield, Avon and Somerset poli...



  • 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 shatt...



  • 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 traditio...



  • Graffiti is a dying art in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.A routine missing person enquiry takes a grisly turn when a young couple drag a box containing human remains out of a Somerset river. The victim was a surveillan...



  • 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 ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Damien Boyd has published 14 books.

The next book by Damien Boyd, From The Ashes, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Damien Boyd, Head in the Sand, was published in January 2015.

Yes. Damien Boyd has 1 series.