Nel cuore del Somerset, un segreto sepolto nasconde una potenziale cospirazione mortale: riuscirà l'ispettore Dixon a sventarla prima che sia troppo tardi?In una casamatta della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, lungo il canale di Bridgwater e Taunton, viene scoperto il corpo di un anziano avvolto nel mistero più che nell'ombra del suo rifugio. Senza movente apparente e privo di sospetti evidenti, l'ispettore di polizia Nick Dixon dà il via a un'indagine che promette di ess...

Un thriller avvincente dove l'acqua che sale è solo uno dei pericoli che l'ispettore Dixon dovrà affrontareDurante le prime ore della vigilia di Natale, sotto un cielo plumbeo, il destino del candidato al parlamento Tom Perry cambia per sempre. Sua moglie Elizabeth viene trovata assassinata in quello che sembra essere un furto finito in tragedia. Ma la scena del crimine cela più di quanto appare a prima vista.Mentre la campagna elettorale suppletiva si inten...

Police officers are the target in this gripping thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.It is Acting Detective Superintendent Nick Dixon’s wedding day. Gig rowers find a body floating in Bridgwater Bay and when the victim is identified as a serving police officer, executed at point blank range with a 3D printed gun, the assistant chief constable is soon knocking on Dixon’s door—wedding night or not.It is the third such killing in as many we...

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 police are notified immediately. The remains are recent, and Detective Chief Inspector Peter Lewis knows exactly who they have found.A single stab wound from a curved blade implicates convicted serial killer Daniel Parker, who ...

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, his mind shattered, and his partner—DS Lizzie Harper—dead in a sting operation gone wrong.Their last case is closed, but Bob is convinced an innocent man has been framed, leaving a serial killer cruising the A303 with impunit...

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 p...

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 witn...

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 ...

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 surveillance expert investigating an exaggerated injury claim—a murder with an obvious motive, until a police officer is implicated and suspended.Still brooding after his recent brush with police Professional Standards, D...

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 expos...

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 whe...

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...