Swansong
Written by Damien Boyd
Narrated by Napoleon Ryan
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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.
Damien Boyd
Damien Boyd is a solicitor by training and draws on his extensive experience of criminal law, along with a spell in the Crown Prosecution Service, to write fast-paced crime thrillers featuring Detective Inspector Nick Dixon.
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Reviews for Swansong
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I hate when the first time I meet a character in a murder mystery I say, "He's the killer." Is it because I read too much detective fiction or has the author telegraphed something? It happened in "Swansong", #4 in the DI Nick Dixon series. Here I don't think Mr. Boyce telegraphed anything, it just had to be that guy from the getgo."Swansong" is better than the previous three DI Dixon books, but is still nothing special. We learn something of DI Dixon's past and meet a serial killer. Mr. Boyce's writing remains sloppy, with redundancies, strange locutions and statistical improbabilities, but at least DI Dixon is more polite than before, the unnecessary bits about Jehovah's Witnesses aside. (There is no reason to mention the sect by name, their doctrine is not a part of the plot.)I received a review copy of "Swansong" by Damien Boyce (Thomas and Mercer) through NetGalley.com.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another excellent story featuring DI Nick Dixon who goes undercover at a Somerset private school to investigate the brutal murder of a girl pupil which brings back unpleasant memories of another schoolgirl's murder which involved Dixon personally. As always the character of Dixon and his girlfriend, policewoman Jane Winter, is finely drawn as are the many characters Dixon encounters at the school, staff and pupils. The author keeps up the mystery of the perpetrator almost to the end, with several credible red herrings thrown into the plot. I also like the depiction of many real locations used in the plot, which is a regular feature of this author.