Denzil Meyrick

In a village of lies, death comes with the snow... A dazzling winter murder mystery, perfect for Christmas, from the bestselling author of the DCI Daley series. In a village of lies, death comes with the snow... A dazzling Christmas murder mystery from the No.1 bestselling author of the DCI Daley series. 'A quintessential slice of Yuletide murder mystery' -...

DCI Jim Daley returns in the gripping, heart-stopping, final novel in the series, from the bestselling author Denzil Meyrick. Daley is charged with murder—and everyone saw him do it. DCI Jim Daley is charged with murder—and everyone saw him do it—in the gripping final thriller in the series, from the bestselling author Denzil Meyrick. In the middle of the night...

Succession meets And Then There Were None. A breakout standalone thriller from a bestselling author, about a killer who picks off wealthy family members in a bid to inherit a billion-dollar estate. Every family has a secret. The Pallanders have it all - a castle in the Scottish Highlands and an island in the Caribbean - but their perfect life...

A potent new drug has hit the streets of Kinloch, and DCI Daley and Scott are struggling to catch the notorious gang behind this evil trade. After a party of Oxford students arrives in town for a camping trip before a Himalayan expedition, one of the group seeks out an illegal high and is violently assaulted. However, these students are...

DCI Jim Daley returns in the gripping, heart-stopping new thriller from the bestselling author Denzil Meyrick. Daley is charged with murder - and everyone saw him do it... In the middle of the night in Kinloch, the phone rings... Detective Sergeant Brian Scott answers. It's a message from his old friend and partner, DCI Jim Daley, which chills him to...

A compelling new series of crime novels, packed with accurate police procedure and gritty, dark humour. Whisky from Small Glasses follows DCI Jim Daley, who is sent from the city to investigate a murder after the body of a woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the West Coast of Scotland. Far away from urban resources, he finds...

The ghosts of the past will not be silenced. Glasgow, 1983, and a beat constable walks away from a bar where he knows a crime is about to be committed. It is a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In the present, an old fisherman is found dead by Kinloch's shoreline, and a stranger with...

When a senior Edinburgh civil servant spectacularly takes his own life in Kinloch harbour, DCI Jim Daley comes face to face with the murky world of politics. To add to his woes, two local drug dealers lie dead, ritually assassinated. It's clear that dark forces are at work in the town. With his boss under investigation, his marriage hanging on...

When rich American hotelier Alice Wenger arrives in Kinloch, some eyebrows are raised and memories are rekindled. Meanwhile, the secretive Doig family live a solitary existence on a remote part of the Kintyre peninsula, without even the basic amenities of modern life. After the family's patriarch plummets to his death, secrets of stolen gold, whisky smuggling, shipwrecks, and brutal events...

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A festive mystery perfect for fans of Murder on the Christmas Express and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot's Christmas A village of secrets. Yorkshire, 1952. Christmas is fast approaching when a dead stranger is found lodged up the chimney of Holly House in the snow-covered village of Elderby. Is he a simple thief, or...

'Tis the season to solve a murder... This dazzling Golden Age murder mystery is compulsive, atmospheric, and written with Denzil Meyrick's trademark humour and wit. A case shrouded in secrets. It's just before Christmas, 1953. Grasby and Juggers are investigating a puzzling murder in the remote village of Uthley's Bay. A fisherman has been found dead on the beach, with...

A Toast to the Old Stones is described as 'a wonderfully atmospheric tale ...offers a brief, magical escape to a kinder, simpler time' by Roger Cox, The Scotsman. In the year 1968, the fishermen of Kinloch are preparing to celebrate the old New Year on the twelfth of January. The annual pilgrimage to the Auld Stones is a tradition that...

Denzil Meyrick's three Tales from Kinloch are collected here in one paperback volume. From ghostly Vikings, to adventurous voyages, to old scores being settled, these stories are guaranteed to provide a fun-filled escape. From the author of the global best-selling DCI Daley detective books, this is a series of nostalgic, humorous stories for fans of Scottish fiction like Neil Munro's...