A golf course.
The bunker (sand trap) for twelfth hole, in fact. A severed head. No body. The
body is eventually found in a car parked on a beach and set on fire.
In Damien Boyd’s
Head
in the Sand, Detective Inspector (DI) Nick
Dixon of the Avon and Somerset CID in Britain and Detective Constable (DC) Jane
Winter have their work cut out for them. The victim is a local woman, whose
husband and son were watching television at the time of the murder.
And
then another body is found. Headless but the head nearby. This time a man. He’s
been dead for some time. Boyd and Winter search to find a link between the two
gruesome murders.
And
they will find a link, buried in the past. Unsolved murders very much like the
two they’re dealing with. Murders from almost 40 years before.
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| Damien Boyd |
Head in the Sand is the second in Boyd’s
police procedural series of novels. It’s fast-paced, full of surprising twists
and turns. This is not so much a story to be read to figure out who the
murderer is as it is one to watch the two detectives and especially Dixon use
inspired police work to solve the killings.
Boyd
is the author of four other Nick Dixon mystery stories: As
the Crow Flies; 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, and all that experience undergirds the stories.
Head in the Sand is a good rip of a
mystery.
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Photograph by Alex Grichenko via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
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