Jake Fayter is
an experienced climber. He’s been working a new climb, and that’s where he is
at the moment, watched by a number of tourists from the car park below. And
then the unthinkable happens – his trailing rope becomes unknotted and falls
behind him. He’s frozen in place as he tries mentally to work his way out of a
very dangerous situation. When he begins to shake, he knows he’s finished. The
tourists watch in horror as he falls to his death.
Detective
Inspector (DI) Nick Dixon of the Avon and Somerset CID in Britain is called by
his boss to investigate the death. When his chief mentions the name of the
deceased, Nick realizes it’s his friend, the man who taught him to climb. They
were close friends until Nick went to work with London Metropolitan Police. He’s
moved to Avon and Somerset by his own choice, and now he has to consider what
happened to his friend.
What he knows
about his friend tells him this wasn’t an accident.
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| Damien Boyd |
As
the Crow Flies is
the first in the DI Nick Dixon series by British author Damien Boyd. It’s technically a police
procedural, but it’s also one good story about rock climbing, friendship, and
how things are often never what they seem.
As Dixon and his
team investigate, he begins to learn things about his dead friend that he never
knew and never would have suspected, starting with a career in rock climbing
doesn’t usually result in buying a very expensive automobile, among a lot of
other things. And he learns that this was no accident, and begins to discover more
possible motives than he can almost handle.
Boyd is the
author of four other Nick Dixon mystery stories: Head
in the Sand; Kickback; Swansong; and Dead
Level. He has
extensive experience in criminal law in the UK and worked for a time with the
Crown Prosecution Service.
As the Crow
Flies is entertaining and intriguing, and one of those mysteries that’s
difficult to put down.
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