By Damien Boyd
Mountain climbing is now a blood sport...
Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former mountain climbing companion, Jake Fayter, is useless. Killed in a fall while practicing a brand new path on excessive Rock, Cheddar Gorge. confident that Jake shouldn't have made the sort of uncomplicated mistake, Nick Dixon begins digging and uncovers an internet of intrigue and criminality that might rock the sleepy beach city of Burnham-on-Sea to its core.
As the physique count number rises, Dixon is compelled to wreck each rule within the ebook and positioned his personal existence at the line to carry the killer out into the open.
A fast-paced crime mystery that would go away you gasping for breath, because the Crow Flies is a backbone tingling advent for DI Nick Dixon and a superb debut novel from crime fiction author, Damien Boyd.
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