Last Orders

Hamish warns DCI Jim Daley and his wife, Liz, not to go to London, but they go anyway. Then Brian Scott receives a phone call that Daley has murdered his wife. Brian knows that it is a set up but how can the truth be proved?

Last Orders by Scottish author, Denzil Meyrick, is the twelfth and last book in the DCI Daley series. It is the gripping story of  a crime of revenge against Jim Daley as payback for a death that occurred in Glasgow in 1977. Complicating matters is the realisation that corruption in a segment of the police force is hindering Brian's attempts to discover the truth. Who can be trusted?

Like the other books in this series, the strength of the novel is in the portrayal of the life of the main characters, plus their families and friends, as they endeavour to carry out their role of investigating crime. Although they are very much character driven novels, the reader is soon swept up in the solving of the crimes being investigated.

Denzil Meyrick died in February 2025, shortly before the publication of this book. Since discovering his DCI Daley series in 2018, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the books in this series as well as other books by Denzil Meyrick.