From The Ashes

Name: From The Ashes
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Damien Boyd
ISBN: 9781501269271

Author: Damien Boyd

Series: DI Nick Dixon Crime

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 06/04/2024

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

Long lives are being cut short in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.A retired teacher is found dead in her Somerset home on a cold January night. At first glance, it is a routine unexplained death and a simple referral to the coroner, until a neighbour reports an unscheduled visit from an occupational therapist an hour before the body was discovered.Detective Chief Inspector Nick Dixon is convinced the elderly woman has been strangled—a cause of death confirmed by the pathologist—and a murder investigation is launched.More victims are soon found—a second retired teacher who died in eerily similar circumstances in Devon. Then a possible third victim is exhumed in Dorset.Leading a regional task force, Dixon must find the connection between the victims. As the coincidences mount, he begins to fear he has stumbled on something premeditated and deeply sinister—a serial killer targeting the elderly in their own homes.

About Damien Boyd

Damien Boyd is a solicitor by training and draws on his extensive experience of criminal law, along with a spell in the Crown Prosecution Service, to write fast-paced crime thrillers featuring Detective Inspector Nick Dixon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by B.S.H. on December 16, 2023

UPDATE: From the Ashes is now a SFINCS semi-finalist! Learn more at [URL not allowed] . ******** New cover alert! The ebook edition is still available to newsletter subscribers. ******** Happy release day to this little--but by no means insignificant--novelette. This is a prequel......more

Goodreads review by Jamedi on January 03, 2024

Review originally on JamReads From the Ashes is a novelette set two thousand years before the main storyline of The Heart of Quinaria series, introducing us to a bit of lore from this epic fantasy proposal written by B.S.H. Garcia. Igtheos and the rebels have lost the civil war, resisting under s......more

Goodreads review by C.J. on January 09, 2024

I received this novella to judge for the SFINCS semi-finals. Opinion is my own, and does not represent that made by the team. I did also happen to purchase this in paperback, as I prefer to read physical, and I liked the cover. This is the prequel to The Heart of Quinaria series, and in my opinion,......more

Goodreads review by Luke on September 21, 2023

I feel like I should have reread Of Thieves and Shadows, to which this novella is a prequel, to thoroughly appreciate this, but it was still a cracking little read from the pen of B. S. H. Garcia, full of horror, sorrow, sacrifice and bloodshed amidst the death throes of a kingdom... A further explo......more

Goodreads review by Dimitris on August 15, 2023

Despite its short length this was impactful. Liked the characters and found the prose simple but effective. More importantly though I found the world quite interesting and now I'm looking forward to trying the first novel in the series.......more