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Scottish BookWhisky From Small Glasses – The First D.C.I. Daley Thriller (Paperback)
Author: Denzil Meyrick
£9.95
ScotlandDetective CrimeNoir Crime
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Add for £10A gritty, coastal police thriller set in a tight-knit Scottish community where a young woman’s body washes ashore and a city detective uncovers dark secrets behind the calm face of the town. Perfect for fans of tense, atmospheric crime fiction.
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Why we chose this book
Whisky From Small Glasses is a strong and atmospheric opening to a crime series, rooted firmly in place and driven by character rather than gimmick.
Our summary description
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When DCI Jim Daley is dispatched from the city to a small West Coast town, the setting feels almost wilfully misleading. The beach where a woman’s body has washed ashore is calm, the light soft, the community tight-lipped. Daley arrives without his usual support, conscious of every glance and every omission. Here, people have long memories and little appetite for outsiders asking questions.
As he works his way through the town’s careful civility, Daley uncovers old loyalties, private griefs, and the quiet resentments that bind neighbours together as much as they divide them. The case refuses to stay simple. Each answer opens another fault line, and danger creeps closer with unsettling ease.
Whisky From Small Glasses balances tension with a dry, observant wit, capturing the uneasy rhythm of a place where everyone knows each other and nothing is ever said outright. Against a vividly realised Scottish setting, the novel explores how love and betrayal can flourish side by side, and how violence often arrives disguised as familiarity.
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