Professional Book Nerds - Denzil Meyrick interview

My local library now has a series of podcasts available featuring 30 minute interviews with a variety of authors under the title - Professional Book Nerds. There are 425 of these podcasts currently available via the library catalogue. Being American podcasts, most of the interviews are with American authors however I did find a selection of podcasts with writers of books that I have read.

The first podcast that I listened to was with Scottish author Denzil Meyrick who just happens to be one of my favourite authors of crime novels. In this podcast he is asked about the writing of Whiskey in Small Glasses, the first novel in the DCI Daley series set in Kinloch. Denzil Meyrick explained that Kinloch is based on the small town of Campbeltown in Scotland. 

His writing of the DCI Daley series is based on his background in the police force providing him with an understanding of how policing really works in Scotland. He has also worked as a journalist. The variety of characters in his books play an important part in telling the story. DCI Daley is an important character in the books but other characters including Sergeant Scott and many of the residents of Kinloch are important to the telling of the story. Sense of community is a focal point making Kinloch also one of the main characters of the books.

Denzil Meyrick was then asked about the importance of libraries and he stressed that libraries are the centres of a community.  He expressed his concern about how libraries are being neglected in some parts of Britain and how they need to be protected as a valuable source for all the community.

Books of Denzil Meyrick.