Damien Boyd

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2015
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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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: 15 titles

  • As the Crow Flies

    DI Nick Dixon - 1

    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...

  • Head in the Sand

    DI Nick Dixon - 2

    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...

  • Kickback

    DI Nick Dixon - 3

    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...

  • Swansong

    DI Nick Dixon - 4

    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...

  • Dead Level

    DI Nick Dixon - 5

    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...

  • Death Sentence

    DI Nick Dixon - 6

    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 ...

  • Heads or Tails

    DI Nick Dixon - 7

    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...

  • Dead Lock

    DI Nick Dixon - 8

    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...

  • Beyond the Point

    DI Nick Dixon - 9

    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...



  • Down Among the Dead

    DI Nick Dixon - 10

    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...

  • Dying Inside

    DI Nick Dixon - 11

    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 Blues

    DI Nick Dixon - 12

    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...

  • Death Message

    DI Nick Dixon - 13

    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...

  • From The Ashes

    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 ...

  • Deceived By The Light

    An innocent man framed. A case closed. A serial killer free to kill again.It is 1985. Detective Inspector Mungo ‘Bob’ Willis is being forced out of Avon and Somerset Police on medical grounds. His career is in tatters, his body broken, hi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Damien Boyd has published 15 books.

The next book by Damien Boyd, Deceived By The Light, will be published in February 2025.

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

Yes. Damien Boyd has 1 series.
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