Swansong
DI Nick Dixon: Book #4
- By: Damien Boyd
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Description
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.
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DI Nick Dixon Series

As the Crow Flies
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
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,... Read more »
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Head in the Sand
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Kickback
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Swansong
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
Learn more
Dead Level
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Death Sentence
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Heads or Tails
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
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:... Read more »
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Dead Lock
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Beyond the Point
By: Damien Boyd
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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