Kickback

Murder at the race track

Kickback starts where Head in the Sand ends, with detective Nick Dixon recovering from his knife wound. A trainee jockey has apparently been kicked to death in his stables at the race track by an aggressive horse. The jockey's brother believes he was actually murdered and takes strong steeps to assure that the police are forced to investigate it as such. Thus begins a story of murder, blackmail, and other criminal activities. DI Nick Dixon and his police partner/girlfriend Jane ultimately resolve the case but not before more murder.

This is Book 3 of the five novel Nick Dixon police procedural series. The setting is in the midlands of England.

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Racing, Roadies & Ruin Abound!

DI Dixon does it again. With merely a moments notice since his last case, and still not fully recovered from the wounds it inflicted Detective Inspector Dixon is onto a horse mauling that may not be what it seems.

Accompanied by a skeleton crew, he enters the world of racing to find out what's transpired and who's responsible.

Quick and potent like the two before, this thriller plays out interestingly. Unlike the others, there are a few too many characters and a slight implausibility for this reader. Still a worthy listen as Napoleon gives us his oratory best!

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Narrator has improved somewhat

though too few characters have individual voices. at least they're not so breathy.
Good story.

Dreadful narration!

Totally spoiled by the performance. Women's voices sounds as if they are sex workers .

Terrible

Have tried to go along with narrator’s horrible female voices in both previous Boyd books, but just can’t take it anymore.
Especially in this one; story is also drivel.

Enjoyable racing mystery-not quite Dick Francis

Enjoyable racing mystery-not quite Dick Francis. Tighter editing could have improved this one. I dislike the voice of the main female detective. The breathy quality makes her sound like an obedient ditz, even if that wasn't the author's intent.

Jockey Trampled

DI Nick Dixon is barely out of the hospital, recovering from his last case, in which he was stabbed in the shoulder, when he overhears an argument breaking out at a nearby table at a restaurant. Seeking to calm the young man who is angry, Dixon learns that he is a soldier on leave from Afghanistan to attend the funeral of his younger brother who was killed in an accident at a horse stable. Insisting that it was no accident, DI Dixon agrees to investigate. Indeed, it wasn't an accident, and the more that Nick Dixon digs, the deeper the mess becomes. Book three in the series is just as good as the first two. Great series and excellent resolution.

Slow Moving Racetrack Murder

This was an average murder mystery. It started out fine but slowed as it developed. The reader was excellent with a level of suspense as he spoke. The plot was fine but there was not an exciting movement of action. too much traveling the racetrack and environment. I was hoping for some quicker action scenes as there are many books in the series.

Kickback.

Didn't like this book ! The book was not good, but not like the first one.

Highly enjoyable but narrative voice needs help

I continue to enjoy this series very much and admire the author's plot and character development of the "hero" . I look forward to listening to the next book as well. However in all 3 books so far the main female character has a soft single tone subdued voice on each every response, every bit of dialogue, even when the listener is expecting moments of obvious emotional and climactic responses. Given her important role in the story with our favorite DI who we are rooting for, it is somewhat of a let-down, somewhat frustrating to hear the constant unvarying monotone voice.

Audible books / audio books can take unknown or little known authors works over the top and provide it exposure to tens of thousands of listeners outside the authors country of publication. I really like Mr Boyd's works and this publisher but fixing this narration issue seems necessary to attain the next level of international readership (listenership).