Send him on a mountaineering trek Damien before it’s too late!!! Jane is his love interest, they send sloppy texts and a love for Monty. If the series continues becoming more in touch with his hormones, sensitive and falling (not clever for a climber) into love and shared mortgages, worrying over the colour of his cravat and morning suit. I fear for Nick once dangling with mates over a crevice, testosterone pumping, beer swilling climbing. He is comfortable in his fictional reality and makes that world as accessible through believable flawed characters and a hero or two. Some series can drift off and become formulaic but in this instance Boyd gets better. He is the rest and play to Dixon’s work and this balance provides a well rounded story.Īs authors go it is a delight for a book lover that the next Boyd novel will be as good as the last. Monty is again the one who takes the reader’s attention and breaks his master’s heart. No two novels are the same unless you read them as one man and his dog. Yet it is by and large rooted in this West Country world abutting the Bristol Channel. The journey he has taken his characters on is not only interesting but diverse in location and plot. The whole team are led without complaint and the action continues to the very end.ĭamien Boyd is a great writer. Like an onion the many layers of the past links between the co-conspirators are brought into focus but with his bosses getting itchy feet because of the cost of the operation and the political fallout the investigation teeters on the edge of success. Nick goes into a zone, focusing on justice for the victims and with a zeal that he truth will be revealed.Īt times frustrated by a lack of evidence but determined to piece it together Dixon is the driving force that never falters or accepts second best. Yet the unfolding of this case reveals a conspiracy far greater in its greed and equally without a thought to the lives that are taken and affected by the need to keep the criminality a secret. This is riveting stuff, intense action and creatively written.

I liked that it was a straight time line of an investigation based on a hunt for a serial killer on the run and foolishly straying into Nick’s patch.ĭI Nick Dixon and his faithful team are relentless in their pursuit of the fugitive and finally track him down at Hinckley Point. I was not disappointed and the novel was all consuming. Furthermore it is steeped in layers of mystery and faced-paced action.Īs a fan of the author and his characters it is a delight to receive an early copy of Beyond the Point. Another book that was a pleasure to read from start to finish.Īlthough the ninth in a series of police procedurals set among the murder investigation team of the Avon and Somerset force it reads as a stand-alone.

Dead Level by Damien Boyd