Altered Life by Keith Dixon
Synopsis"I wish I could say thatthe first time I met Rory Brand I knew he was a dead man walking. But I can’t... " Private Investigator Sam Dyke is hired by Rory Brand to find out what's happening to his business. He knows that someone is trying to steal it from him. He thinks it's someone close to him. Very close. Sam won't get involved because no crime has been committed. But that changes when Brand is found dead in his office, with a taunting clue left on his computer screen. Now Sam is determined to find out who killed Brand, and makes a discovery that takes him back twenty years into his own past. And into a secret that had been kept from him by the prime suspect for Brand's murder ... |
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In the first of a series of books featuring Sam Dyke, Altered Life transplants the attitude and pace of the American private eye story into a contemporary English setting.
Altered Life by Keith Dixon can be found at Amazon.com (and international Amazon sites) and at Keith Dixon’s Lulu Storefront (in a number of different formats).
Review
Altered Life by Keith Dixon - I couldn't put it down! Six Star!
30 Oct 2008
Keith Dixon has taken the classic American cop–turned–private eye mystery story with all its American–style action but given Sam Dyke a British intricacy by combining the wit, intelligence and complexity of the likes Colin Dexter’s “upper–crust” Morse with the working class background and the reining in of the “madness” with method of Morse’s partner, Lewis.
It has twists and turns, with the clues leading you to think in one direction but actually taking a surprising turn down a different path. The detective solves the mystery, resolves the issues with his old flame and gets the new girl... But does he really? Dixon leaves you with a twist in the tail, wondering whether there’s not more to the mystery than first meets the eye, and wanting more of Sam Dyke.
Come on, Keith! Don’t make us wait any longer for the next one!
Keith Dixon – a biographyKeith Dixon has worked as an advertising copywriter, a lecturer in English, a writer of online training courses and is currently working as an organizational psychologist. His first typewriter was a Remington whose keys you had to practically stand on to depress them. During his twenties he wrote ten novels whose manuscripts, he is now glad to reveal, finally rotted in a damp basement after years of abuse and neglect. He did win a play-writing competition with a play about Isaac Newton and published a science fiction short story that, miraculously, earned him two weeks’ salary. Dixon lives in Cheshire, in the north of England, but rather wishes it was LA. He is currently working on translating a work from French to English and editing another work (in English). |
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