DI Nick Dixon Books in Order

When Nick Dixon's former climbing partner dies in a fall at Cheddar Gorge, the accident does not ring true. Digging into Jake Fayter's life, Dixon uncovers secrets, old loyalties, and a killer ready to strike again.

A severed head in a golf bunker throws Burnham-on-Sea into panic. Nick Dixon links the case to unsolved murders from decades earlier and races across the country to stop a killer before more bodies appear.

A trainee jockey's death looks like a freak accident at a Somerset stable until his brother takes hostages and demands the truth. Nick Dixon is pulled into betting scams, buried grudges, and a murder someone wants forgotten.

After a sixth-form student is murdered, Nick Dixon goes undercover at her boarding school as a trainee teacher. The case turns painfully personal as he digs into secrets at the school and ghosts from his own past.

On Christmas Eve, the wife of a parliamentary candidate is killed in what looks like a burglary gone wrong. With floodwaters rising on the Somerset Levels, sidelined Nick Dixon suspects politics, not chance, is driving the case.

An elderly man's body is found in a wartime pillbox beside the canal, with no clear motive and no obvious suspect. Nick Dixon's search leads from rural Somerset underground to a dangerous cover-up far higher up.

A mutilated body on the incoming tide points to a notorious Manchester killer thought long gone. Sent north while murders continue in Somerset, Nick Dixon must work two fronts before the body count climbs.

Ten-year-old Alesha Daniels vanishes, then a second girl is taken and local suspects start turning up dead. Racing back from holiday, Nick Dixon faces a desperate hunt where the abductions may be far more personal than random.

A young woman's body at a nuclear power station site appears tied to an escaped killer roaming west Somerset. Nick Dixon follows the evidence into a family's long search for truth, where money and influence distort everything.

Human remains uncovered at an archaeological dig on the Sedgemoor battlefield seem to revive an old serial killer case. When new forensic evidence cracks the past open, Nick Dixon realizes the original investigation may have gone badly wrong.

A string of sheep killings suggests someone is practicing with a crossbow, then a man is found pinned to a tree. As other units take over, newly promoted DCI Nick Dixon fights internal politics to stop a killer escalating.

Nick Dixon watches a carnival club president burn to death during Bridgwater's squibbing finale, and quickly knows it was no accident. With more public killings looming, he has to catch the killer while Professional Standards circle.

Human remains pulled from a Somerset river turn a missing-person inquiry into a knot of murder, surveillance, and police suspicion. When graffiti begins to echo the killings, Nick Dixon returns to duty to find both the artist and the killer.

An elderly woman found dead at home looks like a routine case until Nick Dixon spots signs of murder. As similar deaths surface across three counties, he begins to fear someone is deliberately targeting vulnerable older victims.

On Nick Dixon's wedding day, a police officer's body is pulled from Bridgwater Bay, shot with a 3D-printed gun. Leading two linked investigations, Dixon has to untangle corruption, betrayal, and a killer targeting both cops and criminals.

A body in a freshly dug churchyard grave seems to match crimes blamed on a Devon serial killer, and the DNA points the same way. Nick Dixon is not convinced, and digging deeper may expose the real reason the victim had to die.